Appletrees small Hostel
07848 007771  for simple and good value night's rest
text for immediate reply  or best of all e-mail: garhywel@gmail.co.uk


          
SHORT PROFILE:

Backpack, Gites (d’Etape), lodging for walkers, cyclists,hostellers, on Jubilee trail, Hardy way, and
1½miles from  NCR (National cycle route) 2, and Frome Valley Way between Poole, Wareham, and Dorchester.
The new Lawrence of Arabia trail, featured  is nearby.
http://www.treasuretrails.co.uk/dorset/things-to-do-in-the-puddles.html

The Roman road  is well marked and walkable.  Jubilee trail has been well used in June.
Lawrence trail more heavily used all the time as a short day circular walk , (with Tank museum included)
The Lawrence Trail has become a firm favorite very rapidly, with stops at the Cottage, the Tank museum,
the Graveyard, and the Frampton Café providing an all day walk of considerable historical and scientific interest.
The Hardy trail to Hardy's birthplace and Max Gate was done without difficulty this year by a dedicated walker,
and literary enthusiast, a linear walk of 10miles each way.

Walkers please avoid the B3390 at all times , even if it means going an extra couple of miles.
Cyclists please use helmets on that road,for any distance, keeping in, and holding the road well to be most visible.
 
No cars. Call, or ask when booking, for inward guide from trails.  There is a walking trail albeit through Bovington
from Wool station to the near vicinity.

No prebooking required for singles. Open 5pm

GEO : 50.750305 , -2.274044

23,Affpuddle
Nr Dorchester
DT27HH


June   Closed on Sunday
July  Some bed spaces open every night until mid september.
August  Some bed spaces.
September Closed on Sunday

Approaching the House from the Hardy Way from Athelhampton, the best way is to find the footpath down the Bladen valley and then turn left at the war memorial.
From centre Briantspuddle, follow the road in the direction of Affpuddle and the house is the third on the right further up past the  Eric Gill  Bladen valley memorial, leaving Bladen valley bumpy road on the left.


One of the many marvellous walks in the vicinity
http://www.walks4softies.co.uk/Jwa10/Bere_Regis/index.html





    Turners Puddle and Kite Hill         5.2 miles / 8.4 km     700 feet / 213 m     Moderate     2 hr 40 mins     710 kcal
kind permission walksforsofties







Jubilee Trail Dorset  kind permission Ramblers personal use 1988

1 Forde Abbey
2 Pilsdon Pen
3 Stoke Abbott
4 Parnham Deer Park
5 Beaminster
6 Mapperton Gardens
7 Kingcombe
8 Wynford Eagle
9 Hardy Monument
10 Corton
11 Upwey
12 Winterborne Came
13 Whitcombe
14 Moreton
15 Briantspuddle
16 Turnerspuddle
17 Bere Regis
18 Milton Abbas
19 Durweston
20 Stourpaine
21 Cranborne
22 Gussage Down
23 Bokerly Dyke

It is practical for me  to offer backup  car driver services between 9 and 18 which can be done by a fit walker, or a cyclist, in one day, but stopping at every pub and café might take three, about 24 miles.


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