A very early start! I think I managed at best 3 hours of actual sleep. Around first light here.

Obviously being in a wooded area meant a fairly limited view of the sky, but I quite liked the pre-dawn sky is framed by the silhouette of the trees here.

Rather dark picture showing bivvy / tarp setup.

Slightly less dark (and slightly less messy!) photo of my bivvy bag plus tarp.

Somewhere beyond those trees is probably a rather attractive sunrise!

Heading out of the woods, and looking back to the sunrise.

Back out in the open now, and it seems lke fully daylight already.

Fairly sure the sun has officially risen now.

A bit of a slog from Lewesdon Hill to here, Pilsdon Pen, but this was a spectacular spot. Would have been lovely to have been here at sunrise given the wide open views, but never mind!

In my stupid sun hat, which makes me look like a bit of a yokel here, because it was already quite sunny even at this time of the morning.

Heading down to the road from Pilsdon Pen. I decided to cheat quite a lot from here on, and followed the road from here to the next landmark along thr route - Lambert's Castle. The road was a much more direct route than the Wessex Ridgeway took between the two.

At Lambert's Castle now, and I found a much appreciated bench to have a sit down on.

Although I had met up with the Wessex Ridgeway again at Lambert's Castle, had I followed it the rest of the way to Lyme Regis it would once again have been a very indirect route. So I took another shortcut, but this time rather than a trudge along a road, I found a rather lovely old track.

The track was relatively flat, nice and shady and tree lined - I was very pleased with my short cut here.

After the track my short cut took me along a pleasant (i.e. mostly devoid of cars) road through an area of woodland.

This also made for rather pleasant walking actually.

Once again after my shortcut I rejoined the Wessex Ridgeway, then had quite a slog up Penn Hill, which I found rather hard work. However I was at least rewarded with this pleasant view.

Another one of those very English vistas I thought.

Just after crossing the A35, this sign appeared to suggest it was only 2 3/4 miles from here to Lyme Regis. The remainder of the walk felt a fair bit longer than that!

The difference between this and the previous photos seems to suggest it took me an hour and a quarter to walk less than two miles. I did have a rather overgrown bit of woodland (Hole Common) to battle through, and I did have a break there to take my boots off for a bit, but I'm still very sceptical of these distances.

Anyway, finally Lyme Regis! I stopped at the first shady bench I came to and had a proper sit down for a bit. My feet were really feeling it at this point!

Lyme's Fish Bar, which gave the impression of being the place to go for fish and chips (or vegetarian versions thereof) in Lyme Regis.

My celebtratory pie and chips for lunch.

Sat by the harbour wall, where I declared victory. Albeit with a few shortcuts, I had completed my walk along the Wessex Ridgeway. From here I took a bus to Axminster, then a train (well actually two trains) from there to Starcross to see Dad. It seems I didn't take any photos for the rest of the day!