Pond Walk at Kingston Maurward – Greys Bridge loop from Stinsford

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Pond Walk at Kingston Maurward – Greys Bridge loop from Stinsford

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Pond Walk at Kingston Maurward – Greys Bridge loop from Stinsford

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5.33km

10m

Running

Moderate run. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: November 7, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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86 m

Kingston Maurward College

Highlight • Lake

plus cafe, children's animal park and garden/lake walk

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859 m

Pond Walk at Kingston Maurward

Highlight • Trail

use the free parking in the college car park and spend half an hour walking round the beautiful grounds.

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1.16 km

Bridleway from Dorchester to Stinsford Church

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Off road section from the bottom of Dorchester town (near Greys Bridge) to Stinsford Church.
Bridleway- mix of track/grass - not very hard but can be muddy and occassionally flooded.
If you carry on instead of taking the left fork you will arrive at Lower Bockhampton (on bridge).
Route well used and 3 or 4 gates.
Stinsford Church is where Thomas Hardy;s heart was buried: poetsgraves.co.uk/hardy.htm

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2.47 km

Greys Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

Carries London Road over the River Frome towhich stood a few hundred feet to the north. Two metal plaques threaten transportation for life for anyone found guilty of wilfully damaging the bridge. Featured in Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas Hardy.
The bridge marks the boundary between town and country. Then, as now, Casterbridge “… had no suburbs—in the ordinary sense. Country and town met at a mathematical line.” Beyond lie the water meadows and corn fields Hardy calls Durnover Moor.

A small path through the meadows to the north side of Grey’s Bridge leads up river 50 yards or so to the pool called Ten Hatches Weir. Here, Michael Henchard intended to drown himself, after finding his own effigy floating in the water.

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3.83 km

Dorchester Floating Water Meadows

Highlight • Natural

4.26 km

Riverside Path Near Lower Bockhampton Bridge

Highlight • Trail

Off road shared path from Lower Bockhampton bridge to Dorchester. Prone to flooding, particularly near Bockhampton bridge. Grey's bridge and Dorchester town centre is to the left, travelling from Bockhampton.

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5.33 km

End point

Parking

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