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Quite casually, you'll find yourself standing in the middle of a millennia-old place, which Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans have repeatedly reshaped to suit their culture and needs. Those familiar with Old Sarum will recognize or compare many things (Salisbury). Two information panels allow you to immerse yourself in this tranquil place.

Amphitheater with a long history. In prehistoric times it was probably a place of sacrifice in the style of Stonehenge, adapted by the Romans as an amphitheater for the entertainment of the encamped soldiers. In Hardy's Major of Casterbridge a place of various meetings, and today still used for local festivities.

Maumbury Rings began life as a Neolithic henge over five thousand years old. A large circular earthwork, 85 metres in diameter, it is now a public open space and hosts events.

Has a metal railing fence around the outside with gates for pedestrians. Best to lock your bike to the railings rather than try to get in with it

nice valley to go up or down. But be careful with the traffic and especially as you come down into the Preston where it can get busier and cars have to stop to let others pass or residents wanting to back up.

lovely valley to go up or down. But take care with traffic and especially as you get towards the bottom into the Preston where it can get busier and cars have to stop to let others pass or residents backing out of their drives.

Wondeful views down to the Frome Valley and Dorset downs from Poundbury Hill Fort a scheduled Prehistoric and Roman archaeological remains and includes evidence of a Neolithic settlement, a substantial Bronze Age occupation site and an Iron Age hillfort. There are also late Iron Age burials and a section of Roman aqueduct. On the eastern side is an earlier Romano-British farmstead; and an extensive later (possibly Christian) cemetery, belonging to the Roman town Durnovaria.

Some of England's chalk hill carvings are difficult to see, either only visible from fast roads or too high to get a good vantage point from anywhere but the air. Not so for Osmington. This carving is quite youthful, created in 1808, and can be easily seen from the footpaths immediately south near Osmington village. You can ascend the hill too, if you want to see the chalk cutting up close. This is a great point from which to take a photograph, particularly if you can line up a nearby grazing horse in the shot. It's almost as if they know.