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The Guardian - UK
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Spring in your steps: four great UK walks that banish winter

A view in late April from Coney's Castle hill fort near Fishpond in Dorset with a view across the Marshwood Vale.
A view in late April from Coney's Castle hill fort near Fishpond in Dorset with a view across the Marshwood Vale. Photograph: Graham Hunt/Alamy

England: west Dorset

If you drive along the A3066 towards Bridport in springtime, you might get a tantalising glimpse of pink apple blossom in the centre of Melplash village. If you park in the layby opposite the Half Moon pub, you will find there is a footpath that leads through the trees and on, up and over Hincknowle Hill.

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