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Turners Puddle Heath

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Turners Puddle Heath is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset of 3.9 km². It is one of 124 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It is among the largest in the county.

Other SSSIs nearby include Stokeford Heaths and Oakers Bog. The closest station is Wool, about 1.2 km to the south.

More places to visit near Turners Puddle Heath

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.

2.5 km NW · Dorset & Wiltshire

Photo of the Dorset National Landscape, a National Landscape in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Dorset National Landscape

National Landscape near Dorchester

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

4.1 km SE

Photo of Tolpuddle Martyrs' Tree, an ancient site near Briantspuddle, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Tolpuddle Martyrs' Tree

Ancient site near Briantspuddle

The old sycamore on Tolpuddle's green where six farm workers met in 1834 and set the trade-union movement going

5.7 km NW

Photo of the Purbeck Heritage Coast, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Purbeck

Heritage Coast near Wareham

Dorset's "Isle" of Purbeck, a peninsula of chalk and limestone on the Jurassic Coast, with sea stacks, quarried stone and a ruined castle

5.8 km SW

Photo of Lulworth Castle, a ruined castle near Wareham, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Lulworth Castle

Castle near Wareham

A 17th-century mock castle built as a grand hunting lodge, gutted by fire and now an open shell in the Dorset parkland

8.5 km S

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

Wareham

Village

A Saxon walled town between the Frome and Piddle rivers, its grid of Georgian streets running down to a riverside quay near Poole Harbour.

9.2 km E · Dorset