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Winterborne St. Martin

Woodsford Castle – South Winterborne River loop from Winterborne St. Martin

Winterborne St. Martin

Woodsford Castle – South Winterborne River loop from Winterborne St. Martin

Moderate

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Woodsford Castle – South Winterborne River loop from Winterborne St. Martin

02:45

53.2km

500m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 21, 2026

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Dorset National Landscape

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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7.39 km

Dorset Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

dorsetmuseum.org
Renovated and modernised mid 2021. Much improved. Usually has an exhibition as well as the five galleries. And a rather good Taste cafe.
Somewhere to put some calories back in and take in some culture.

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8.15 km

The Grove – Roman Defensive Ditch and Bank

Highlight • Structure

You could of choose to continue up along the grove, alongside the Roman Defensive Ditch and Bank system but you'd be with the traffic so taking a right here and going through the Industrial Estate avoids all the traffic and brings you up onto the road that takes you to Poundbury

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8.89 km

The Sun Inn

Highlight • Pub

Cosy Pub, food only so-so. You could if you wished veer off to the left after the pub and take instead the shared cycle/pedestrican route and continue all the way to Hangmans Cottage

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39.4 km

Woodsford Castle

Highlight • Castle

This is the surviving part of a 14th-century castle, a rambling wing of great interest and charm, deep in Hardy country just outside Dorchester. Its roof has one of the largest expanses of thatch in the county. Just one side of the quadrangular castle, built in 1370 and probably added to an existing group of buildings, remains today.

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42.9 km

West Stafford Village

Highlight • Pub

Many know the village as the home of (and suffix to the name of) Oscar-winning Gosford Park screenwriter, Julian Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford.

Thomas Hardy fans will know West Stafford as the location of the story The Waiting Supper, with the church of St Andrew also being the apparent setting for Tess and Angel Clare’s marriage in Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Lower Lewell Farm is also though to be the likely inspiration for Talbothays Dairy in Tess.

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43.6 km

View of Stafford House, Home of Lord Fellowes

Highlight • Monument

considered to be one of the best examples of Stuart architecture in Dorset built in 1633 by Dorchester merchant John Gould on the site of Everards Manor in the vanished village of Frome Billet.

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47.6 km

South Winterborne River

Highlight • Natural

53.2 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

51.3 km

794 m

721 m

412 m

Surfaces

29.0 km

23.9 km

269 m

Elevation

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Highest point (220 m)

Lowest point (30 m)

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Monday 20 July

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Woodsford Castle – South Winterborne River loop from Winterborne St. Martin

Dorset Museum

The Grove – Roman Defensive Ditch and Bank

The Sun Inn

Woodsford Castle

West Stafford Village

View of Stafford House, Home of Lord Fellowes

South Winterborne River

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