As in the title! Thinking of going somewhere different in the summer on holiday - what is Shropshire like for gravel biking (or is it better for mtb)? Any suggestions for routes and/or places to stay? Always looks interesting, but never been & would be a change from Scotland, Northumberland etc.
I am thinking of Marcher Way next summer with my son
Ooh, good idea!
Shropshire covers lots of options and I’ve barely scratched the surface. We go a fair bit as i have a brother in law there
The Llangollen canal gives some good options. I’ve done oswestry to llangollen on the canal then bridleway and road back to Oswestry. The climb up from Llangollen is a bit rough and steep on a gravel bike. There is a magazine route from Ludlow that might be ok
On a gravel bike. I was on an mtb. Plus you’ve got all the stuff on the Long Mynd and Llandegla nearby. So a hardtail might be a good compromise
Plus there are these events I’ve not done
Thanks!
I was in a place called knill, on the border this week and Radnorshire is gravel paradise.
1400m of climbing in 60km and everything from slate, green lanes ruined by 4*4s, grassy hilltops, Pennineesque rocky descents and hundreds of miles of farm tracks. The icing on the cake was the forest roads though, like the reiver with better scenery
There's loads of bridleways that all work with a gravel bike and the back roads are in such crap condition that they work with one too. Pretty much wherever you stop there will be a decent ride from your doorstep, work out where you want to be then come back for route ideas. The further South and West you go generally the lumpier it is but you get forest trails and ridgelines, North and East tends to be flatter with farm tracks.