- Circular walk: 4.1 miles
- what3words address for parking: ///nation.occur.steeped
- GPX File
The walk starts from the car park beside the visitors’ centre for Thomas Hardy’s cottage and is mostly through woodland. Thorncombe Woods is an ancient woodland and nature reserve that opens out onto heathland; this is the start of Hardy’s ‘Egdon Heath.’ The cottage, where Hardy was born, is owned by the National Trust and is open for visitors. Check the opening hours on the National Trust website.
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