MOLE AND SKIN CANCER SCREENING

Dorset has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the UK! One in ten people will develop skin cancer.

of ways. Take the bridleway to the left that takes you along the edge of the forest at first uphill and then down to meet the road at Hedge End.

Turn right and head northwards up the road for half a mile until you find a bridleway on your left, heading west. Join it and after half a mile, not far past a large barn, join another bridleway heading south, uphill, along a farm track. At the hill top it turns right, south west for a quarter of a mile then (beware as there’s no sign!) left, down a steep hill and up again past a wood.

That was the last of the hills. Soon you come to a road, which you cross to join the bridleway leading along the boundary with Winterborne Houghton, downhill for nearly a mile. When almost at the road, turn left along a footpath that parallels it for nearly a mile back to the village, near the pub.

By the time you get back to your car you’ll have walked about eight miles.