Jubilee Trail
The Jubilee Trail, created to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Ramblers’ Association, is an 88-mile path that meanders its way from east to west (or vice versa) across Dorset. Our daughter and son-in-law started walking it in 2020, and when we went to stay with them for the August bank-holiday weekend, we walked a leg with them, from Chettle to Tarrant and beyond (and back on a circuit) and very much enjoyed it. This shouldn’t have surprised us, given how much we had enjoyed the Wessex Ridgeway, and a previous walk with them on Chanborne Chase (as part of Helen and Tom's "Cranborne Canter").
Helen was heavily pregnant when we walked that leg of the Jubilee Trail with them. By the time we returned to the Jubilee Trail in 2022, after a week in a holiday cottage during which our "Cranborne Canter" became Cranborne Circles, our grandson was 18 months old, so Helen and Tom's serious walking exploits were in abeyance. This time we started at the eastern end of the Jubilee Trail, at the Hampshire/Dorset border at Bockerley Ditch on Martin Down and we progressed by way of a series of circular walks (sometimes also making use of the Wessex Ridgeway, the White Hart Link and the Hardy Way) on this holiday, on occasional day trips from Helen and Tom's house and when staying in a another cottage in Dorset in 2023.
When we returned to Dorset to another cottage in 2024, we had two cars with us, which was useful as the path headed further west, and we got as far as the Hardy Monument. We'll be back for more!