Badbury Rings. Photo: Peter Lister
Location
Access
The entrance to Badbury Rings is off the B3082 Wimborne to Blandford Road. It is well signed once you are near. The car park is pay and display, but free to National Trust members.
Entrance to Badbury Rings from the car park. Photo: Peter Lister About the site
As a hillfort, the site would have been built for defence, but nowadays the warm hollows provide a good butterfly habitat. Good views can be had from the high points. The long tall hedge running roughly east-west along the back of the site is often a sheltered and sunny stretch where many butterflies are to be found.
For more info visit: Official Badbury Rings websiteHabitat and features
Chalk downland
What to see
Butterflies
Other species
Many orchids.
Photo gallery
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Badbury Rings. Photo: Peter Lister
Badbury Rings. Photo: Peter Lister
View of the Rings. Photo: Peter Lister
Ownership
National Trust