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The Dorset walk – Acton, the Priest’s Way and the Purbeck coast

Matt Wilkinson and Anthony Blake follow a classic Purbeck route

Published in June ’22

In the Townsend Nature Reserve

THE coastal plateau that forms the southern edge of the Isle of Purbeck is traditionally a landscape of farmland, quarries and coast, all of which are seen aplenty on this walk, along with evidence of a more modern contributor to the area’s economy, tourism. It starts in the village of Acton, where almost all the houses are built of the local stone and many are roofed in it as well. Quarrying today is more mechanised …

 

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