Corfe Castle East Circular Route Number 1
Area |
Distance |
Difficulty |
Access Restrictions ? |
Corfe Castle |
5 miles |
Easy/Medium |
No -  |
| A 5 mile walk which takes over Corfe Common and includes the Swanage Steam railway line for the second half of the walk. No ascents or descents of any significance. |
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The detailed walk is below and also here in PDF format if you wish to print:- 
Corfe Castle, East Circular Route Number 1
How to get there: - Grid Reference 958818; Coming from Wareham, turn right
in the middle of Corfe Castle, opposite the Bankes Arms Hotel. Follow West
Street for about 1/3 mile, turn right where indicated and park in the Pay and
Display Car Park.
Information: Toilets are available at the entrance to the car park.
Walk details:-
Exit the car park at the opposite end to what you entered. Turn right and continue to
the end where you will enter Corfe Common. Turn immediately left and follow the
path to the road (1/2 mile).
Cross the road carefully (road summit directly to your right). Follow the path for
about 200 metres. and take the right fork which will lead you at an angle of 45
degrees across the bottom of the common and bring you to a stile in the corner of a
field (1/2 mile).
Cross the stile and follow the hedge up to another stile which then meets a track. You
need to continue to follow the track up to the road (1/3 mile).
At the road, turn left for about 200 metres, then left again and back into another field.
Continue through the fields, crossing the Swanage Road, for about where you will
meet a farm and other houses (1 1/3 miles).
After the houses, you will see a sign to your left for Corfe Castle. Follow the path
through the first gate (1/4 mile), continue to follow the hedge on your right until you
meet a gate-sized gap in the hedge.
Turn right here and walk to the bottom right hand corner where you will go under the
railway line and turn right (1/2 mile).
Follow the path which will lead you over a stream, behind a school and into the main
street in Corfe Castle. Cross the road, turn right and there will be a path on your left
between the houses which will lead you back to West Street.