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If you follow me on Strava you can see where I end up CG 🙂
I see that trail you mention, would represent a long ride after work so I'll do it when I'm looking to push it. Maybe get some faster tyres 🙂
If you follow me on Strava you can see where I end up CG
Request just sent, interested in your Wiltshire rides. 🙂
cinnamon_girl said
.......The Ridgeway, believed to be Europe's oldest road....
So how did the people get here from Europe and beyond in the first place. Fly? 🙂
If you check out the map, wf, you will see what they mean. It's like the M4 corridor with all the hill forts and other infrastructure. Ironic since its within sight of the actual M4!
You can see enough of the landscape to realise why it was such an important road when you're up there.
So how did the people get here from Europe and beyond in the first place. Fly?
Devon to East Anglia is the complete route. Do I get a lamb chop for answering? 😉
Here's a suggestion. Ride out to or park up in Avebury. Then Wessex Ridgeway onto the Ridgeway proper then on to Sanctuary. Through or round East Kennet then get yourself onto Wansdyke/White Horse Trail and head west past Tan Hill. Great sense of wilderness here. At Morgans Hill turn east then north up to Cherhill Down. From Cherhill Down pop across the A4 and make for Windmill Hill then back to Avebury for tea and medals.
@cinnamon_girl thanks for the reminder. I was supposed to check the freezer to see if there are any chops left. 🙂
Let me know if you are ever in the Black Mountains and we can see what we can do for you.
@ welshfarmer - thank you, that's very kind. 🙂 Whilst you're here, and being very cheeky, may I just bump up this thread as your ears clearly weren't burning at the time!
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/telly-this-farming-life-and-what-a-superb-series
Did you manage to see any of these?
@ uponthedowns - excellent route and well worth riding.
Having grown up in the shadow of Liddington Hill, the comment that beat relates to riding around here is that it's a bit 'mint sauce'. It's great riding, but like most places in the UK, depending on the weather, it can be fun or hard work on endless bridleways, countless routes to explore, countryside rich in historical interest and the Ridgeway provides fantastic views. Swindon itself gets a bad rap but most good cycling is outside towns.
Nonetheless, you've got Victoria Hill for a decent road/Strava hill, link-ups through old town to the downs, cycle track Strava segment from Chissy to Marlborough. And my mate Sean at Bertie's in Marlborough does a 7am Saturday morning road ride before he opens the shop up and you can get a coffee and cake. Molgrips, get a GPS unit with OS map and start exploring...
@ cinnamon_girl thanks for the heads up on the thread. I did manage to watch 1 episode of "this farming life". Unfortunately it was on right in the middle of lambing time which is so intense & disruptive that I was unable to catch any others. The only one I saw was where the young couple were lambing in the snow and cold which was a bit too close to home! What I saw was very good though. I did plan on catching up on the i-player but like all these things never found the time. It will be back on again one day 🙂
molgrips. Another useful track back to Swindon is from Yatesbury. Follow the NCN from Avebury then do a right up Back Lane and there's a nice gravel track to Broad Town. I then loop round Uffcot to avoid some of the main road and drop down Elcombe to a cheeky path over the M4 then back on the railway track to Old Town.
Never heard of King of Limbs, is it ghoulish?
One of Savernakes 'named oaks' - finding all of them is a nice afternoon on a bike though when I were a lad there weren't no maps and we did it on Chippers and Choppers etc. etc. still all trees round there though!
Beautiful road ride last night, except for the bit between Hungerford and Ramsbury. WTF is with all those flies? Ergh!
PS MTB next week so will do some of the trail suggestions above
Am I going to regret going out in the rain tonight and tomorrow night? Mudbath?
I tried to do some of what DavidB suggested but the other way round, and ended up riding across fields of knee-high wheat, round field edges and having to climb over a barbed wire fence to get to a road. Bit of a fiasco.. but reminded me of being a teenager all the same 🙂
Is there any singletrack ish twisty turny upppy downy riding in the area?