Nearby Eggardon Hill , visible from our grounds, is an iron-age hillfort said to have the finest view of any hill-fort in the county. On a clear day you can see right across Lyme Bay to South Devon and Start Point

As well as walking along the spectacular ramparts you can discover unexpected and often deserted footpaths that access magical folds in the complex contours of Eggardon. We can provide you with maps and suggestions.

"Up on the summit, 829 foot above the sea, where the wind blows and the skylarks sing among the clouds, nothing changes. "As old as Eggardon" goes the local saying…"

"Wherever you go, the past is everywhere, just under the skin of the land, visible in the ripple of turf… in the terraced lynchets around Uploders and in the lonely downland barrows where the Bronze Age chieftains sleep."

Only the light changes, never quite the same as the patterns of sun and shadow drift across the landscape in an infinite variety of ways.

All quotations, unless otherwise stated, From Brian Jackman's "My Dorset", Dorset Magazine, October1999.