Dorset Area of the Ramblers Association

Contact Us To Find Out About Joining

Get Joining Forms by Sending an E-mail

You can send e-mail enquiries about membership of the North, South, East and West Dorset Groups to . When sending e-mail, please give your full postal address as application forms and leaflets need to be posted to you.

Find Out About Joining By Phoning A Contact

If you are interested in the East Dorset Ramblers group you can phone Jim (Publicity & Recruitment) on 01202 691709 or Brian on 01202 526954.

For information about the South Dorset Group you can phone Geoff (Membership Secretary) on 01305 262911, Kate (Chairman) on 01305 772126 or Stan (Secretary) on 01305 820957.

For information about the West Dorset Group you can phone Jacqueline on 01308 863081, Jacky on 01308 424000 or Mike on 01308 863754.

For information about the North Dorset Group you can phone Tony on 01935 812809

The Dorset Young Walkers can be contacted on 07765 497887 or via

For Ramblers groups outside Dorset there is a find a group facility at http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/localgroups/local.html and joining forms on the http://www.ramblers.org.uk/membership/whyjoin.html page.

Enquiries and information for the Dorset Area Ramblers council can be sent to . Area council meetings are held 4 times a year (see entry on members information page).

Please note if you are sending something about an event or that has a time element we have only one means of distributing information to all the Ramblers in Dorset. Our Dorset Footnotes magazine is distributed 3 times a year with the walks program (circulation 2500+). The editor may accept items for publication and adverts of a suitable nature. When sending information to be passed on to the editor please note that deadlines will apply. Typically these will be:

For the Summer edition (July to October) May 1st.
For the Autumn/Winter edition (November to February) September 1st.
For the Spring Edition (March to June) January 1st.

Obviously material can be added to this web site at shorter notice however not all members are expected to access this site and distribution to members via the large variety of group walks and other events across the county (in a variety of locations) is unlikely to be effective

Enquiries about the Jubilee Trail can be made to .

Contacting Us To Comment On The Site

Please send comments, suggestions & questions about this site to (there there is no webmaster e-mail address because of it would attract spam).

If you have a walking event suggestion for or Try A Walk page or an event that could be interest to walkers for our Events page, the ideal input for entries on these pages is a title or 1 to 2 lines of text summarising the subject and a the URL of a web site page giving full details

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for general enquiries about Dorset area Groups.

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The Jubilee Trail Guide Book contains a description of the route with newly designed, detailed maps showing the route for each short section. Features of interest are described alongside the route description.

A comprehensively revised, third edition of the Jubilee Trail Guide Book ISBN 978-1-906494-10-0 will be available from the beginning of July. Price £5.50 +£1.00 p&p from the Jubilee Trail Contact through this website or from Tourist Information Centres in Dorset and from bookshops.

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