The Blue Pool
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Walk directions
Walk south on the main road through the village, passing the drive to Furzebrook House on your left. At the end of the park wall turn left down a drive, signed to the Blue Pool. After a parking area (for paying visitors), pass the entrance to the Blue Pool on your right.
Continue ahead (signed ‘Purbeck Way’) into the woods. Stay on the main track (marked ‘Purbeck Way and Corfe Castle’; ignore a path to the left), to go through a kissing gate onto the heath. In 30yds (27m), at a marker stone (‘Purbeck Way’), bear right off the track onto a peaty path through gorse and heather (southeast). At the heath edge go through another kissing gate. At a marker stone signed ‘F.P. to Corfe’, turn right over the duckboard walkway. The wet path leads you (southwest) through pretty woodland dripping with moss and lichen. Cross a sleeper bridge over an orange-stained marsh. After a pool on your left, continue along the boundary fence and further duckboards.
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Terrain
- Country lanes, heath and woodland tracks (may be boggy)
Landscape
- Heath, woodland, rolling country
Dog friendliness
- Some road walking; on lead in the Blue Pool reserve and on heath to east of Cotness Farm where deer abound
Parking
- At roadside just south of phone box in Furzebrook
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
Until quite recently, Furzebrook’s roads were stained white by lorries from the clay pits: the village was once the centre for the Dorset extraction of ball clay. This is a clay formed of particularly fine, uniform particles, useful for many sorts of pottery, from fine white teapots to toilet...
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About the area
Dorset is made up of rugged coastlines, high chalk downlands and a chain of picturesque villages and seaside towns that make up Britain’s Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, noted for its layers of shale and numerous fossils embedded in the rock. Hidden gems of Dorset can be found down winding, country lanes that lead to snug villages hidden from view.
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