Purbeck Way
A 15-mile long-distance path in Dorset beginning in Wareham, crossing the Purbeck Hills, and following a spectacular stretch of coastline to the resort of Swanage. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Start: Wareham
Grid Ref: SY 924 871
Distance: 15 miles (24 km)
Grid Ref: SY 924 871
Distance: 15 miles (24 km)
Climbing: 715 metres
Time: 6–8 hours
Duration: 1 day
Time: 6–8 hours
Duration: 1 day
Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (1:25,000):
OL15 Purbeck and South Dorset
Summary
The Purbeck Way is a footpath through varied scenery including riverside, heathland, woodland, and downland, taking in the Purbeck Hills and the spectacular Dorset coast.
Places of interest visited while walking from Wareham to Swanage include Ridge, Stoborough Green, Stoborough Heath, Creech Heath, Furzebrook, Kilwood Coppice and Meadows Nature Reserve, Corfe Castle, Combe Bottom, Emmetts Hill, St Aldhelm’s Head, West Man Strip Lynchets, Seacombe Cliff, Dancing Ledge, Blackers Hole, Anvil Point, Tilly Whim Caves, Durlston Castle, and Peveril Point.