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Rotherley Downs

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Rotherley Downs is one of 119 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire. It is among the largest in the county. It lies within Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.

For more of the same, Cranborne Chase and Winklebury Hill are close by. The nearest railway station is Tisbury, about 8.6 km to the north.

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

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 Wessex Ridgeway, a 136-mile long-distance path running from Marlborough to Lyme Regis, south west England.

Wessex Ridgeway

Long-distance path

The prehistoric chalk line continued — from Marlborough across Salisbury Plain and Cranborne Chase to the sea at Lyme Regis.

1.2 km SW · Wiltshire, Dorset & Devon

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.

1.6 km S · Dorset & Wiltshire

Photo along the Jubilee Trail, a 90-mile long-distance path running from Forde Abbey to Bokerley Dyke, south west England.

Jubilee Trail

Long-distance path

Border to border across Dorset, Forde Abbey to Bokerley Dyke, laid out by Ramblers volunteers for their diamond jubilee in 1995.

4.3 km SE · Dorset

Photo of Old Wardour Castle, a ruined castle near Tisbury, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Old Wardour Castle

Castle near Tisbury

Romantic hexagonal ruin by a lake.

6.9 km N

Photo of Shaftesbury, a village in Dorset, south west England.Iconic

Shaftesbury

Village

A hilltop Saxon town famous for Gold Hill, a steep cobbled lane of thatched cottages falling away over the Blackmore Vale.

9.2 km W · Dorset