The Sailor’s Return pub in the village is a half-mile  walk and offers a good selection of local real ales and home-cooked food at reasonable prices, served in the bar or restaurant. Children are welcomed in the eating areas and the garden.

The Countryman and Red Lion pubs at Winfrith Newburgh are both excellent and only four or five minutes by car. There is a village store, post office, garage and hair salon in Winfrith.

A stroll through the valleys to the beaches at Durdle Door takes about 35 minutes. Lulworth Cove is a further 15 minutes walk along the coastal path or beach. Both are less than10 minutes by road.

Walkers will enjoy the quiet valleys which run south and south west to the coast. The trackways are grass or gravel, according to the prevailing farming activities. The tractor ruts on a few short level stretches can be muddy in the wet but it is always easy to walk between them or to one side.  We'll dry your clothes and you can hose off your boots by the door. Sheep and cattle are often in the valleys and on the hillsides. Crops are grown on the hilltops. There are several ancient barrows and long disused farm dwellings. The views from the top of the hills between Limekiln and the cliffs are spectacular reaching inland as far as the hills beyond Yeovil and Blandford to the Isle of Wight and Portland Bill.

The nearest large towns to the west are Dorchester, 10 miles, with a large weekly market and Weymouth,12miles, with wide sandy beach and numerous pubs and restaurants, geared for tourism. 

To the east, the large village of Wool and the main Waterloo to Weymouth line station is 5 miles. The market town of Wareham is 9 miles and the maritime town of Poole is 14 miles.

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