In this section you will find a selection of walks, which together make up a book project, "Butterfly Walks in Dorset". They are based on some of the finest Transect routes (Butterfly Monitoring Walks) in the county and as such have been expanded beyond the basic route descriptions.

This section also includes one of the Dorset Branch Butterfly Reserves on Portland, Broadcroft Quarry, which is home to the Small Blue, the Grayling and the Silver-studded Blue butterfly and many other important Dorset species. The other Dorset Branch Butterfly Reserve on Portland is Perryfields, which is smaller, but has similar species of butterfly.

A map of the Walks is available here.

1. Badbury Rings

2. Ballard Down

3. Batcombe Hill

4. Clubmen's Down

5. Duncliffe Wood

6. Fifehead Wood

7. Fontmell Down

8. Hod Hill

9. Jerry's Hole

10. The Milldown

11. Moors Valley Country Park

12. Pamphill Moor

13. Piddles Wood

14. Portland Broadcroft Quarry Butterfly Reserve

15. Portland Tout Quarry

16. Powerstock Bridleway

17. Sopley Common

18. Southbourne Undercliff

19. Stubhampton Bottom

20. Tadnoll

21. Upton Country Park

See also the Transect routes for more Butterfly Walks.

Please note that anyone undertaking walks described on these pages do so entirely at their own risk. Although we research these walks to the best of our abilities, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the routes, the maps or any descriptions, and Butterfly Conservation and the Authors of the walks on this site cannot accept any responsibility for any losses or accidents that ensue from following our walks. Please take care and walk bearing in mind your own safety and that of others and the countryside around you at all times.