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Wareham Quay – View of Durdle Door loop from Hamworthy

Wareham Quay – View of Durdle Door loop from Hamworthy

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Wareham Quay – View of Durdle Door loop from Hamworthy

02:54

68.1km

540m

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: June 26, 2026

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Dorset National Landscape

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12.1 km

Wareham Quayside and Saxon Walled Town

Highlight • Settlement

what a lovely town especially down by the Quayside. gateway to the Jurassic Coast and the best preserved Saxon Walled Town in the country

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12.3 km

Wareham Quay

Highlight • Historical Site

A historic market town on the banks of the River Frome in Dorset, Wareham has plenty of pretty buildings and riverside relaxation spots. The quayside is particularly lovely with the Old Granary pub, benches for watching the ducks go by and even a traditional market.

It's an ideal place for a snack stop on a bike ride in the area and is also the start of the Purbeck Cycle Ride.

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23.2 km

Broom´s Plantation

Forest

27.4 km

View of Durdle Door

Highlight • Beach

The view down towards the coast from this highpoint on the road is great. Hambury Tout is the hill directly south with a trig point at 134m. Lulworth Cove is to your left (looking out to sea) below West Lulworth village. To your right is Durdle Door and the Man o' War cove (images of these in the highlights) you can get down to them by turning into the car park (entrance about 100m west) and pushing the bike for a short distance.

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29.8 km

Marley Wood

Forest

36.9 km

St Nicholas' Church and T. E. Lawrence Burial Site

Highlight • Historical Site

Cakes are served on the cart that was used to carry T E Lawrence's (aka Lawrence of Arabia) coffin to his final resting place - just a few metres down the road! On the route here you might even ride over the exact spot where he crashed on his Brough Superior Limited motorbike (the exact location remains a mystery but it's reportedly somewhere near Pallington Farm). Some might think he's a fictional character due to all the films made about his life but T E Lawrence was actually a British Intelligence Officer born in Wales but resident in Dorset, who fought alongside Arab guerrilla forces in the Middle East during the First World War. He later worked as an advisor to Winston Churchill and then for the RAF.

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