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Horton Common

Open accesson open access land, where the right to roam applies

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Horton Common is one of 124 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset. For arrivals by rail, Branksome Station is about 14.9 km to the south. Nearby SSSIs include Moors River System and Verwood Heaths.

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Photo of Moors Valley Country Park, a country park near Burley, Dorset, England.

Moors Valley Country Park

Country park near Burley

A country park in Dorset.

2.3 km E

Photo of Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

National Landscape near Tisbury

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

3.4 km NW

Photo of The Fleur de Lys, a gastropub near Cranborne in Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

The Fleur de Lys

Gastropub · With rooms near Cranborne

Cranborne Chase village inn from the acclaimed Chickpea Group, an olive gastropub pick.

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Photo along the Hardy Way, a 217-mile long-distance path running from Higher Bockhampton to Stinsford, south west England.Highlight

Hardy Way

Long-distance path

Around Thomas Hardy's Wessex from his birthplace cottage to the churchyard at Stinsford, via Corfe Castle and Lulworth Cove.

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Photo of the New Forest, a National Park in England.Iconic

New Forest

National Park near Lyndhurst

Ancient wood pasture and heathland where commoners' ponies still roam free.

8.5 km E

Photo of Wimborne Minster, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Wimborne Minster

Village

A historic market town centred on its twin-towered minster church, with a Georgian core and a much-loved 1950s model town.

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