with retired Dorset rights of way officer CHRIS SLADE

Pentridge is a small village on the edge of the Cranborne Chase on the boundary of Dorset and Hampshire.

Lots of the houses are thatched and built of brick and flint.

There are also cob walls to be seen. Start by visiting the Church, which is mainly built of flint.

Then walk past the village green and follow a bridleway northwards along a hedge to meet the Dorset Cursus.

This must cause lots of curses as it’s practically invisible there!

When you reach the road turn right, east south east, then, at the next junction right again, south west back towards the Church.

At Manor Farm, take a footpath leading south east up a hill across a field, along a narrow way between hedges and across fields to woodland at the top of the hill, Penbury Knoll.

The map indicates that you will pass a trig. point but I was unable to see it, probably because it’s covered with brambles. The views from the top of the hill, east and west are fantastic!

Join a bridleway heading north east along the boundary with Cranborne, part of the Jubilee Trail, crossing wild flowered downland, then across arable as far as a wood where you turn left, downhill.

Then you turn right, north east, crossing the county boundary at Bokerley Dyke which you follow north west for half a mile, then turn left, west, along a bridleway to join a track that takes you south south west for a mile back to your starting place.

You’ll have walked about three miles.