차일드 옥포드 주변 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

Great place to hike/run all year round

Pop into the cricketers pub before or after your hike it’s in the village (shroton)

Views , views and more views

The hill is now a National Nature Reserve (NNR) with common plants including milkwort, salad burnet, horseshoe vetch, squinancywort, pyramidal orchid and wild thyme. Rarer species include bastard toadflax, meadow saxifrage, early gentian and dwarf sedge. Butterflies include dingy skipper, grizzled skipper, chalkhill blue and Adonis blue. In August 2014, Hambledon Hill fort was acquired by the National Trust for £450,000. The money to buy the hill had come from a Natural England grant and a legacy gift left to benefit Dorset countryside. The hillfort is a Scheduled Monument, as is the adjacent Neolithic causewayed camp.

I came on a very wet and windy day, but could still see for miles when walking along the ramparts.

Small little car park off the main road. free parking and not busy

Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk outcrop, on the southwestern corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour. It is owned by the National Trust. Hambledon Hill is the first in a series of Iron Age earthworks,] which continues with Hod Hill, Spetisbury Rings, Buzbury Rings, Badbury Rings and Dudsbury Camp. The Iron Age port at Hengistbury Head forms a final Iron Age monument in this small chain of sites. The ramparts are a lot longer than you think, amazing fun getting around them all though.

If you come on a wet day..... like I did, be super careful on the declines.... the grass is so slippy, and it's easy to take a little tumble n slide.

Great views across Dorset from the trig point and path junction on Hambledon Hill. To the north is the iron age hill fort and burial mounds and you can see Hod Hill to the south. It's a bit of a climb up to hear from any direction but the descents are fun once you make it.

Hambledon Hill was an Iron Age hill fort with great views across the surrounding lower lying countryside. Today the area is managed by the National Trust to preserve the ancient earth works and maintain this important habitat. The sunny chalk grassland supports at least 28 species of butterfly and many rare plants. The running along or around the hill is fun, underfoot it's grippy and forgiving allowing fast descents.

start point of steep walk to Hod Hill Iron Fort and Roman Camp. you can come down into Stourpaine

From this vantage point you get a good idea of the scale of the three ramparts which formed the fortifications of the hill. The steep banks and ditches would have made it a formidable defensive fort.

A very impressive Iron Age hill fort.

The view of Hambleden Hill from Child Okeford. Hambleden Hill rises steeply to 190 metres above the Blackmore Vale and the river Stour below. It is one of the best preserved and most notable Iron Age hill forts in Great Britain.

The church at Child Okeford. The tower dates back to the 15th century with the rest of church rebuilt in the 1870s.

1st and 2nd World War Memorial.

Great views across Dorset from the trig point and path junction on Hambledon Hill. To the north is the iron age hill fort and burial mounds and you can see Hod Hill to the south. It's a bit of a climb up to hear from any direction but the descents are fun once you make it.

Spaces for a few cars

Young cattle enjoying the view too and not at all disturbed by our presence!

Amazing views over the Stour and Lwerne valleys, as well as Blackmore Vale and the Fontmell & Melbury Downs. Well worth a hike and picnic on a sunny day. You can even ride your bike up when dry.