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Ashmore Village and Pond – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Blandford Forum

Ashmore Village and Pond – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Blandford Forum

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Ashmore Village and Pond – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Blandford Forum

03:34

51.3km

530m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 3, 2026

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Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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6.28 km

Pimperne Wood

Forest

12.7 km

Higher Downend Coppice

Forest

15.4 km

Ashmore Village and Pond

Highlight • Settlement

A central pond, thatched cottages and a sense of peace, Ashmore is a wonderfully pretty village to pedal through. It's actually the highest in Dorset – too high for time to have caught up with it, as it rather feels like stepping into history.

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19.1 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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20.1 km

Woodland Singletrack in Cranborne Chase

Highlight (Segment) • Forest

Great little single track through the woods. Fast and with the occasional root to jump, way better than the road! 😁

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21.8 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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22.0 km

Ox Drove Road (Cranborne Droves Way Trail)

Highlight • Viewpoint

The old drove roads have been here for thousands of years providing the safest way of travelling and moving cattle across the land. This road was probably used to move the cows towards Salisbury and then onward to the ports at Southampton.
The section that is rideable today passes an old ale house, dew ponds and grain storage sheds. The surface is easily rideable on a mountain bike but does get a bit muddy in the winter. Great views all year though!
This is part of the Cranborne Droves Way Trail, a 27km route that links the Sarsen Way at Salisbury with the Wessex Ridgeway Trail at Win Green.

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28.5 km

Smooth Descent to Sixpenny

Highlight • Cycleway

28.5 km

Chalk Downland Descent

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Beautiful sweeping descent through open chalk downland. It keeps going and stays good beyond the section marked, but watch the road surface once you get into the trees, and the tight right-hander when you get to it.

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45.7 km

Pimperne Long Barrow

Archaeological Site

51.1 km

Start of the North Dorset Trailway in Blandford Forum

Highlight • Trail

Nice easy going route from Blandford to Sturminster Newton, running along old railway line. Very easy going gravel.
Bit of history in nearby Railway Garden: flickr.com/photos/93122458@N08/17454467195/in/photostream

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51.3 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

22.2 km

13.2 km

11.1 km

3.82 km

953 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

23.3 km

13.8 km

12.5 km

837 m

766 m

Elevation

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Highest point (270 m)

Lowest point (40 m)

Weather

Thursday 7 May

18°C

8°C

23 %

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Ashmore Village and Pond – Ox Drove Gravel Road loop from Blandford Forum

Ashmore Village and Pond

High Point in Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs

Woodland Singletrack in Cranborne Chase

Ox Drove Gravel Road

Ox Drove Road (Cranborne Droves Way Trail)

Smooth Descent to Sixpenny

Chalk Downland Descent

Start of the North Dorset Trailway in Blandford Forum

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