This year our Spring walks will take in not only some gorgeous countryside but five classic and contrasting Dorset villages... with the occasional teashop. This is the season for bluebells and blossom, when all is still springing green and the county is at its very best.

Othona walking weeks call for a certain level of fitness, but they are by no means route marches. We share cars (except where walks begin from our own grounds) and walk from mid-morning till mid-afternoon, stopping somewhere suitable to eat packed lunches which we've prepared at Othona. Please be equipped for walks between 3 and 8 miles in length, inevitably with some hilly sections.