The road to Bulbarrow

 

I haven't walked this route in an age, Okeford Hill out to Bulbarrow Hill and Rawlsbury Hillfort. It's a lovely walk. The route runs along the edge of an escarpment of the Dorset Downs with striking views out over Blackmore Vale and into the surrounding counties, ahead you can just make out the ancient ramparts of Rawlsbury in the distance, and glimpse the Dorsetshire gap beyond. Bulbarrow Hill at 274m is the second highest hill in the county, it's height has always drawn people to it, with evidence of human activity way back to our Mesolithic hunter gathering forebears, 9600 - 4000BC.