World War One Leaflet

ABOUT US...

Got a smart phone?

Download our app from: www.walkingintheirshoes.co.uk Scan the QR codes you will find in our history boxes and you will get extra info, including a WW1 radio show we made.

We are a group of volunteers aged 15-25 from all over Dorset, and some of us get extra support with additional needs.

We led the fundraising, planning, researching and making of this trail.

We hope you enjoy it. We loved making it!

Why not try our “Walking in the Shoes of St Aldhelm Trail� next?

A big thank you to our adult volunteers, The Keep Military Museum volunteers and all our partners for supporting us:

Follow our trail and walk in the shoes of a Dorset First World War soldier to find our boxes filled with history!

The trail starts in Dorchester and leads to Bovington and Moreton woods. You can find just one box or do the whole trail.

You can do it

by Geocaching, using a map or by following the clues. Plus, get extra info from our app.

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Here are the three ways to follow the trail. Got a smart phone? Download our app for extra info. More details overleaf.

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Use an OS map to find our boxes at these grid references or look them up on this online map before you leave home - www.gridreferencefinder.com.

Use the clues if you need extra help.

Dorchester-based trail: DORSET NEEDS YOU! – SY 68768 90665 PRISONERS OF WAR – SY 68659 91080

To find our history boxes by Geocaching, go to www.geocaching.com and search in Find a cache – Cache starts with - “WiTS” or hidden by “Walking in their shoes” or download the below.

REST & RELAXATION/REMEMBRANCE – SY 69301 90881

DORSET NEEDS YOU! – HTTP://COORD.INFO/GC59C7D

THINK TANK – SY 82678 90180

PRISONERS OF WAR – HTTP://COORD.INFO/GC59CB5

BATTLE READY – SY 82063 89201

REST AND RELAXATION/ REMEMBRANCE – HTTP://COORD.

TERRIBLE TRENCHES – SY 81704 89771

INFO/GC5A9R5

THE REALITY OF WAR – SY 81133 89649

THINK TANK – HTTP://COORD.INFO/GC5D33J BATTLE READY – HTTP://COORD.INFO/GC5B8HN TERRIBLE TRENCHES – HTTP://COORD.INFO/GC5B8JM THE REALITY OF WAR – HTTP://COORD.INFO/GC5B8K2

If you are a geocacher help us send our travel bugs to these destinations: CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – To remember Australian troops who fought in the First World War KATHMANDU, NEPAL – To remember the Ghurkhas who fought in the First World War GALLIPOLI – To remember where Dorset soldier Private Loveless died YPRES IN BELGIUM AND THE SOMME IN FRANCE – To remember where some terrible battles were fought.

Here are the grid references to find our boxes in Bovington and Moreton Woods, using a map.

Again, use the clues if you need extra help.

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Use these clues to help you find the boxes in Dorchester:

DORSET NEEDS YOU! Go to the Top O’ Town in Dorchester and look for a castle. Go to the back door and search.

You might twig where it is camouflaged!

PRISONERS OF WAR Walk down the road between the castle and the old artillery barracks to the Grove, where you won’t find fairies but you will find industrial units! Go down the hill past the old red brick POW building to the white Grove House sign.

This is in front of a bush that will bear fruit!

REST AND RELAXATION The friar’s sign will help you if you want to find the history box. Go to where you could exchange corn and get new tyres and you are in the right place! Look for a post box that is not a post box.

REMEMBRANCE Reach into the roof of the post box that is not a post box. It will yield stories you can match to names you find at St Peter’s war memorial around the corner in front of St Peter’s Church.

Clues to help you find the boxes in Bovington and Moreton: THINK TANK Park up near to Clouds Hill at the tank viewing park, cross the road very carefully and take the footpath that runs alongside the road. Be sure to stay inside the yellow markers and stay on the path until you come across a concrete ramp on your right.

Go to the far end of the ramp and tucked in a hole in the ramp’s side lies your prize.

BATTLE READY Go to Cranesmoor Close, follow the Lawrence Trail and go straight on. Before the gate with the military crossing sign, at the fork in the path, look for the three-trunked silver birch tree that hides the treasure...

TERRIBLE TRENCHES Continue on through two gates past the sign for Moreton Forest. At the fork in the path that says Moreton and Lawrence Trail, look for the holly tree to find your history box. Mind you do not trip on tree roots or potholes and watch for soggy bits in winter.

THE REALITY OF WAR Through the gates and past the house on the right, continue straight until the path opens out into fields on the right, (If you pass the turning to Snelling Farm you have gone too far). Leave the path and follow past the metal gate on the right along the fence to a large oak tree. At its base you will find what you are looking for...