Moors Valley Country Park & Forest

Moors Valley Country Park and Forest www.moors-valley.co.uk Horton Road Ashley Heath Nr Ringwood BH24 2ET Email: moorsvalley@eastdorset.gov.uk Tel: 01425 477880 Looking for something a bit different for a Sunday afternoon stroll, then this place could tick all the boxes. Moors Valley covers 750 acres in the Valley of the Moors River. Not easily sign posted until you are right on top of the entrance, a Sat Nav device could prove invaluable to get you here. However, if you type in the above postcode on the RAC route planner website (www.rac.co.uk), it will find the place for you ...

I traveled to Moors Valley is in East Dorset. It is a country Park which if you didn’t know where you were; you would be forgiven for thinking that you were in the New Forest. The park is on the B3081 from Verwood, the A338 from Bournemouth, and the A338 from Wimbourne. Look for the Ashley Heath roundabout and underpass, if you are driving from Ringwood on the A31. On approaching the forest there is a tall Indian totem pole that has many carvings of insects and butterflies, I didn’t see any natives doing a ceremonial dance round it; it was already raining. There is a car park that is under trees; through you have to be ...

My husband and I decided to have a holiday at home this summer rather than going away. We realised that there were lots of places around where we live that we have not yet visited and we thought it would be nice to take our 21 month old daughter to some of them. The downside of this is that although you are not paying to stay anywhere, days out in the UK seem to cost more and more these days. I was shocked to find that outings to somewhere like Thorpe Park (which we had intended to do) cost around £19 per adult. If you add a couple of kids to this, you are talking about £70 for one day out, not including the cost of petrol and nice little extras like icecreams. We, like ...