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Old Shaftesbury Drove Road – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Donhead St. Mary

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Old Shaftesbury Drove Road – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Donhead St. Mary

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Old Shaftesbury Drove Road – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Donhead St. Mary

03:58

49.2km

450m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 15, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 34.9 km for 109 m

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Start point

Parking

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8.63 km

Ox Drove

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

This just the section we rode on this loop. It had been raining lots so the whole way was very wet and puddly. It was still fun and if it was dry it would be awesome.

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21.5 km

This beauty goes from Coombe Bisset all the way almost to Shaftesbury off road. It's used a fair amount by organised bike events, and also in the summer is full of other bikes and dog walkers. It is a traffic free gift for the off road cyclist though. This little section does suffer from being used as a fly tipping hotspot. Booo. In fact, from here all the way down to Coombe Bisset behind the race course has a tonne of fly tipping debris.

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34.9 km

Poor Patch

Forest

42.5 km

Ox Drove Gravel Road

Highlight • Trail

Need a dryer day if you're on lightweight wheels/tyres, great back road with views of wiltshire one side and dorset the other. Links the Chalkes to top of Win Green towards Shaftesbury. Keeps off the main roads for a few Km's!

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45.2 km

High Point in Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs

Highlight • Summit

The Komoot app suggests the North South approach path uphill is a bike path but I had to remove bikepacking gear to push up this narrow steep and loose rutted pathway to the top. Good views at the top.

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45.4 km

Cow on Cranborne Chase

Highlight • Trail

49.2 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

28.9 km

17.8 km

1.37 km

1.01 km

116 m

100 m

Surfaces

26.2 km

14.7 km

5.51 km

2.76 km

Elevation

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Highest point (270 m)

Lowest point (60 m)

Weather

Friday 15 May

12°C

3°C

77 %

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Max wind speed: 19.0 km/h

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Old Shaftesbury Drove Road – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Donhead St. Mary

Ox Drove