with retired Dorset rights of way officer CHRIS SLADE

There’s room to park at the Church, which was built of brick in 1873. It was closed when I visited, as was the 1879 Methodist Church, also built of brick, half a mile along the road to the east.

Opposite the Village Hall is the start of a bridleway that takes you a mile south eastward across Woodlands Park and the Remedy Oak golf course and passes an artificial lake in an old gravel pit.

You’ll soon realize how the parish got its name!

There’s lots of lovely countryside and park land to view and appreciate.

When you get to a meeting of ways at the parish boundary turn right and join a footpath that wends its way westward until you meet a bridleway where you turn right and head north for a short distance to Knob’s Crook where you join a footpath on your left.
This winds its way past springs and over bridges and zig-zags for a mile north west to Woodlands Manor Farm.

Here you’ll find the entrance to the golf club and also to Remedy Oak Brewery, the products of which I have yet to sample.

From here the bridleway takes you in a straight line north westwards for a quarter of a mile until it reaches a road at Bagman’s Farm. Cross over and join the byway, Bagman’s Lane that continues for another three quarters of a mile to meet a road.

Turn right and follow the road which weaves its way eastwards for a mile to a crossroads near a large nursery (plants, not kids!).

Cross over and within a quarter of a mile you’ll be back at your car, having walked a little over six miles.