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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{hatnote|The article is on the path in Dorset; for the path in Kent see [[Stour Valley Walk]] and for that in Norfolk and Suffolk see [[Stour Valley Path]]}}<br />
[[File:Muscliff, Stour Valley Way - geograph.org.uk - 734904.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Stour Valley Way at Muscliff]]<br />
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The '''Stour Valley Way''' is a 64-mile long-distance footpath along the [[River Stour, Dorset|Dorset Stour]] passing through four counties: [[Wiltshire]], [[Somerset]], [[Dorset]] and [[Hampshire]].<br />
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The path uses public rights of way and permitted paths to follow the course of the [[River Stour, Dorset|River Stour]], beginning at [[Stourton, Wiltshire|Stourton]] in Wiltshire, then travelling south-eastwards through Dorset to and finally across to [[Hengistbury Head]] near [[Christchurch]] in Hampshire.<br />
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==Route==<br />
[[File:Logo for the Stour Valley Way - geograph.org.uk - 1155599.jpg|left|thumb|130px|Waymarker for the Stour Valley Way]]<br />
The path begin at the head of the river at Stourton, in a finger of Wiltshire, soon passing into Somerset, then at beyond White Cross briefly re-entering Wiltshire (then re-crossing to the Somerset bank of the river where it intersects the east-west [[Monarch's Way]] footpath). It enters Dorset north of [[Bourton, Dorset|Bourton]].<br />
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The route later passes through the towns of [[Wimborne]] and [[Gillingham, Dorset|Gillingham]], and the villages of [[Silton]], [[Milton on Stour|Milton-on-Stour]], Ecclife, [[West Stour, Dorset|West Stour]], [[Stour Provost]], [[Fifehead Magdalen]], [[Marnhull]], [[Sturminster Newton]], [[Child Okeford]], [[Stourpaine]], [[Bryanston]], [[Blandford St. Mary]], [[Charlton Marshall]], [[Shapwick, Dorset|Shapwick]], Oakley, [[Canford Magna]], Knighton and Dudsbury, after which the path enters Hampshire for tis final stretch.<br />
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From [[Holdenhurst]] in Hampshire, the path is largely hemmed-in, with the suburbs of [[Bournemouth]] to the west and those of [[Christchurch]] to the east. There are ferry crossings between [[Hengistbury Head]] and [[Christchurch]] town quay or [[Mudeford]] quay.<br />
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===Alternative routes===<br />
The path has two alternative sections which can be used to form circular walks: one to the south-west of Wimborne, and the other to the southwest of [[Bournemouth Airport]].<br />
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The footpath is waymarked and is shown on [[Ordnance Survey]] maps.<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Footpaths in Dorset]]<br />
[[Category:Footpaths in Hampshire]]<br />
[[Category:Footpaths in Wiltshire]]</div>RB