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The Strawberry Line

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The Strawberry Line

Sandford Railway Station Heritage Centre

National Cycle Network On-road / Traffic-free

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Toilets / Visitor attraction / Golf course

Bike hire / Bike shop / Car parking

Visitor information / Signalled crossing

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0 Kilometres 1 2 How long will it take? 6 minutes cycling will take you this far or this far If you cycle at about 6 miles an hour If you cycle at about 10 miles an hour

© Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Ordnance Survey. This map has been produced by Attractions along the route Contacts for further information Travel information North Council. This project is supported by: is situated on the Channel Coast and Clevedon Visitor Information Centre and Library For help planning your journey use www.travelwest.info AONB was once a hillside settlement. It can be reached by using 37 Old Church Road journey planner tool mainly quiet lanes being only 4 miles to the north of . Clevedon BS21 6NN

ROUTE MAP Clevedon became a very popular Victorian Tel: 01934 426 020 Details of train services to Yatton and bus services to towns The Strawberry Line Heritage Trail is a 10 mile traffic- and has many fine examples of architecture from that era, Email: [email protected] are available from Traveline. free route through the heart of linking including the only Grade 1 listed in the country. the Levels to the Mendip Hills. For all your information about cycling in The Strawberry Line Weston-super-Mare Tourist Information Centre North Somerset and the West of visit Yatton Station is a mainline station with local trains www.n-somerset.gov.uk/Leisure/tourism Part of the , the Strawberry Line www.betterbybike.info running to Weston-super-Mare and Bristol as well as direct www.loveweston.com was completed in 1869. It became an important line for trains to . From Yatton a branch line used to head www.visitsomerset.com passengers and freight carrying dairy produce, stone, and, More maps and guides for this area north to Clevedon and south to Cheddar.

Pocket sized guide to the National Cycle Network of course, the famous Cheddar strawberries from which it Cycle hire Cycle Map

including the Strawberry Line, Bristol to Bath Railway Path, takes its name. Colliers Way, Stop Line Way plus 6 individual day rides Biddle Street Site of Special Scientific Interest is Other places to walk or cycle Updated & revised drained by a network of ditches that act as ‘wet fences’ Cheddar Cycle Store The line was busy for nearly a century until it was closed Yatton to Cheddar between the fields. These ditches and their banks are Forest of Trail 1E Valley Line Industrial Park, Wedmore Road, in 1965. Since then the line has been reclaimed by nature rich in wild flowers and home to dragonflies and reed and 10 mile route Ashton Court Visitor Centre, Bristol BS41 9JN Cheddar, Somerset, BS27 3EE and is managed to protect and enhance a rich variety of sedge warblers. Tel: 0117 963 9174 Tel: 01934 741 300 wildlife habitats from ponds and wetlands to limestone Email: [email protected] Station was once the junction with the Email: [email protected] grassland and dense scrub. North Somerset Council’s Sustainable Travel Team and Road www.ashtoncourtestate.co.uk www.cheddarcyclestore.co.uk

Wrington Vale Light Railway. Safety Team Work began converting the line to a walking and cycling Within the Highways and Transportation Service group this team provides Silver Springs Fish Farm Café Festival Way connects the town of to the heart route in 1983 by volunteers from the Cheddar Valley Walk guidance on the most appropriate and safe travel choices according of Bristol linking through nearby towns and villages and Society. Improvements are still being made to the route 25 to your journey to work, the daily commute, local and leisure trips. Thatchers Cider is made in Sandford from apples that travelling through the Grade II* listed grounds of Ashton This guidance highlights walking and cycling, public transport and car Other National Cycle Network routes in the area years later and more exciting projects are planned for the sharing options through local information and leaflets with various training are grown locally. The path passes through some of their Court Estate and nearby Leigh Woods National Cycle Network on-road National Cycle Network traffic-free future including extending the route. The Strawberry Line opportunities for children and young people. orchards near Sandford, and you can try or buy their Proposed routes Selected Regional Routes project would not be possible without the ongoing support Contact details for the Sustainable Travel and Road Safety team; products at the Thatchers Farm Shop in the village. Park - Family Park & Adventure Centre of a variety of volunteers and organisations. Email: [email protected] and Shute Shelve Tunnel takes the line through the heart of the www.puxton.co.uk [email protected] Mendip Hills and contains several limestone formations. Find out more about the Strawberry Line at Sustrans and the National Cycle Network Mendip Hills www.thestrawberryline.org.uk Station has been restored and you can walk The Strawberry Line forms part of the National Cycle Network, more than AONB Unit, Charterhouse Centre, , 14,000 miles of traffic-free paths, quiet lanes and on-road walking and a timeline along the platform which ends at the Millennium Bristol BS40 7XR cycling routes in the UK. Green. Tel: 01761 462 338 The Network is coordinated by Sustrans, the charity that’s enabling people Email: [email protected] to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of the journeys we make The Pantry Café Woodborough Road Winscombe every day. Our work makes it possible for people to choose healthier, www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk cleaner and cheaper journeys, with better places and spaces to move Axbridge has changed little over the centuries and visitors through and live in. can still wander around the charming medieval streets and For more information about cycling in the South West visit soak up hundreds of years of history. It’s time we all began making smarter travel choices. www.betterbybike.info Make your move and support Sustrans today. was opened in 1938 and was www.sustrans.org.uk designed to pump water from underground springs and rivers to serve the population of Bristol.

Cheddar Gorge reaches 500 feet and the sides of the ravine boast the highest inland cliffs in the country. Cheddar Caves were inhabited by our early ancestors 40,000 years ago and Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man, is on display. Registered Charity No. 326550 (England and ) SCO39263 (Scotland) SOMERSET NORTH Cover: istockphoto.com