Lesser paths

Walk a place long enough, and you'll discover its secret paths, you have to keep your eye out for them though. I say 'secret paths', they can't be that secret as for the most part once you're on one they're easily definable, although that traffic maybe made up largely of ponies. One such path is the path which follows the contours of Rock Hill, and the interface between the lawn and heather heath of Spy Holms and the open tufted grass wet heath below. It's a wonderful path which winds around the folds of the land, allowing you a different perspective than that afford by the established routes. It's always good to get another perspective.

Path?

You'd never believe that only a couple of years ago a well used path went through here. Why the path fell out of use to the point that it disappeared I can't remember, I suppose all it takes is a short period of neglect to see a path disappear.  

Wooded paths

Although often shown on maps as merely footpaths along the edges of fields, you find many paths about Cranborne Chase are much more.  Many of them are paths running through slithers of, a sort of, woodland, 6m to 8m wide, though in nature not so much woodland, the flora they contain make them more like hedgerows on steroids. During the summer months they afford you welcome shade in the more open and exposed parts of the Chase landscape. In windy weather the debris that frequently litters their floors brings the fear. Though whenever you walk them they've always a magical aspect to them, as if you're walking old lines. I'd imagine they're busy nocturnal highways too.