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Progress

The Poole Harbour Trails Community Group was formed to look into ways of making a National Trail around Poole Harbour happen.

The Group submitted a National Lottery bid to obtain funds for a viability study and to help with promotional costs. Unfortunately, the bid was not successful but our thanks are due to Purbeck District Council and Poole Borough Council who gave us grants to prepare leaflets of 5 linear walks that are possible now.

Leaflets

Our launch day! The day we met to launch and distribute copies of our 5 new walks leaflets.

See our Walks Page where there are downloadable leaflets describing 5 walks around Poole Harbour. They are also being distributed from a variety of venues including tourist information offices.

These walks are all linear ones of around 7 or 8 miles in length, each starting and ending at a bus stop. All but one of them meet bus routes on the way and so could be cut to shorter walks for those who prefer walks of 3 or 4 miles.

We have also placed a number of circular walks here, shorter walks off the main route that reach some particular view point.

There are also parts of the circuit that can be cycled.

The Future

For both the walking routes and cycling routes there is a short distance that will need a new public right of way before it can be traversed and then a bridge! A claim to make the required path a public right of way is now with Dorset County Council.