Martin Down

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Martin Down is a National Nature Reserve in Hampshire, covering 3.4 km². It is one of eight National Nature Reserves in the county. It lies within Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.

For arrivals by rail, Tisbury Station is about 11.8 km to the north-west. Pentridge Down and Chickengrove Bottom are among the nature reserves within 2.1 km.

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

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Tisbury

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

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

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.

2.3 km SW · Dorset & Wiltshire

Photo of The Queen's Head, a pub near Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, south west England.

The Queen's Head

Pub near Broad Chalke

Chalke Valley village local praised by olive as a best country pub.

6 km N

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

The Fleur de Lys

Gastropub · With rooms near Cranborne

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

6.3 km S

Photo of Fovant Badges, a hill figure near Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, south west England.

Fovant Badges

Hill figure near Broad Chalke

A row of regimental cap-badges cut into the down by soldiers in the First World War — the biggest and most complete group of hill figures in England.

9.3 km N

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

New Forest

National Park near Lyndhurst

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

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