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Attraction · Dorset · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset

Cerne Abbas Giant is an attraction in Dorset. This place has a story in the app. Within 530 m you'll find a bench and a public toilet.

Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset
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Story · Cerne Abbas Giant

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You're standing near the Cerne Abbas Giant, in the English county of Dorset. Look at the steep hillside across from you. There's a naked man lying in the grass, about fifty-five metres tall and more than fifty metres wide. In his right hand he swings a knotted club thirty-seven metres long. His outline is made of shallow trenches, around sixty centimetres deep, packed with crushed chalk. That's why he glows so white against the green.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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Facilities near Cerne Abbas Giant

The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No water point, bike pump or food stand within 1 km.

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Is there a toilet or drinking water nearby?

Yes: a public toilet at 530 m.

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