Boondoggle

By Boondog

Very Autumnal

We did the Lawrence of Arabia walking trail today:-:-)This was part of the walk:-)
This 7.5mile circular historical trail starts at the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset and gives walkers the opportunity to visit both the former home and the final resting place of T. E. Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Lawrence was born in Wales in 1888. He studied history at Oxford University and then joined the army in 1914, progressing to Colonel by the end of the war. He first came to Bovington in 1923 where he joined the Tank Corps, buying the nearby retreat Clouds Hill in an attempt to escape the public eye. After a spell in the RAF he retired to Clouds Hill in 1935, but sadly only a few months later he was fatally injured in a motorbike accident.

The route mostly follows wide rough stone and earth tracks through forests and plantations with no stiles. The walk is flat for the majority of its length, with just one steady climb to Clouds Hill. The popular walk, known as the Lawrence Trail, is clearly marked with wooden waymarkers

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