Thorncombe Beacon – View over Seatown and Eype Beach loop from Bridport
Thorncombe Beacon – View over Seatown and Eype Beach loop from Bridport
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Thorncombe Beacon – View over Seatown and Eype Beach loop from Bridport
02:30
8.51km
240m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: April 19, 2026
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Waypoints
Start point
Parking
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980 m
Burton Bradstock Beach and River
Highlight • River
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2.38 km
Thorncombe Beacon
Highlight • Viewpoint
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3.25 km
Doghouse Hill
Highlight (Segment) • Summit
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3.67 km
View over Seatown and Eype Beach
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4.30 km
The Anchor Inn, Seatown
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5.48 km
View of Golden Cap from Doghouse Hill
Highlight • Natural Monument
Finds included a stone hearth, fire pit and pot shards from Bronze Age periods (2,500 to 1,000BC) and others from the Mesolithic Age (10,000 to 4,000BC)
Martin Papworth, from the National Trust, said: "Although it's a stunning coastal site now, 6,000 to 8,000 years ago this area would have been over a mile inland.
To find ancient pottery decorated with fingernail impressions and touch them with one's own hand, that's real contact with the past
Martin Papworth, National Trust
"The Mesolithic people who lived on top of Doghouse hill would have pre-dated farming, so would have been hunter-gatherers using these flints to work hides, cut meat and scrape fat from animal skins.
"After millennia of erosion, it's at risk of disappearing into the sea itself."
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5.97 km
Thorncombe Beacon: Smugglers' Song, Beacon, and Watering Well
Highlight (Segment) • Summit
A Smugglers song by Rudyard Kipling
IF you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,
Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!
Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
Put the brishwood back again - and they'll be gone next day !
If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
If the lining's wet and warm - don't you ask no more !
If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
If they call you " pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the chin,
Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been !
Knocks and footsteps round the house - whistles after dark -
You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
Trusty's here, and Pincher's here, and see how dumb they lie
They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by !
'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being good !
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie -
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by !
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6.59 km
Coastal Landslide in Dorset National Landscape
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8.51 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
4.96 km
2.44 km
976 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
4.02 km
3.29 km
1.03 km
127 m
< 100 m
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