National Trust - Spyway — Attraction in Langton Matravers

This is by no means easy to find.. travelling from Weymouth we used Google nav to find it but initially that takes you to a private inaccessible lane which isn't the correct location..head to Langton matravers village and you need to find a single track "road"next to a new looking housing estate. It's bumpy and full of potholes..but there is a national trust car park at the top with 3 outside portable toilets and a coin only car park meter,then its a walk past a stone quarry through a few gates and it's on the right indicated by a small sign with a dinosaur on it and down some "stepping stones" to the actual site..some literature to read there about how it was discovered and it's congratulates you on finding it ..but it's so worth it my 11 year old daughter was thrilled to stand in these 145 million year old footprints,don't expect massive deep holes they are quite shallow but simply amazing to see..is it worth it? Absolutely!! Stunning views if you look back or on the way back to...

Difficult to review. It's a fair trek from the National Trust car park (and the access road to that would have suited an off road vehicle more than a car). If you're expecting something stunning you'll be very dissapointed. A fenced area in the middle of a field contains what looked like a few mucky puddles on the surface of the rock but with a little imagination and thought you can "see" they are footprints. Then you can start to see the size they must have been. Of course it is the age of these that is really impressive but that's not really a visual thing. The walk there is on good paths of compacted stone and there are good coastal views. Overall a bit...

This is a great piece of history and it's fantastic that you get to stand exactly where a dinosaur once stood many many years ago. One thing I would say is that the route to the footprints is not that clear, and we only found the way because we went with family who had already been before. But when you do arrive there is a nice information board which tells you about the sight and the footprints are there.

It is a shame though that more hasn't been done to preserve the footprints since discovery. They are just out and exposed to the elements and I'm sure it won't be long before they are...