A Cross the River Avon onto Fieldings Lane. H Passing (or stopping at) the potential Please walk your bike across the bridge lunch spot at Brassknocker Basin and give way to pedestrians. café & campsite, Angelfish Restaurant, the Somerset Coal Canal (now used for B Opposite the Roman man artwork is the moorings) and Bath and Dundas Canal entrance to Bloomfield Road Open Space, Company (where you can hire canoes) from here you can pop into The Bear, great you will then cross over the canal beside if you fancy a coffee and cake stop. Dundas Aqueduct. *1 mile to the Odd Down Cycle Circuit (up steep hill – Bloomfield Road) DUNDAS AQUEDUCT Visit bathnes.gov.uk/gobybike An impressive grade 1 listed structure built C The ex-railway Devonshire Tunnel is ¼ from Bath stone in 1800, it carries the Kennet mile (408m) long and named after one & Avon Canal over the River Avon. The main of the roads that it lies beneath. arch has Doric pilasters and balustrades at each end. This was the first canal structure Two Tunnels D The second, longer Victorian tunnel is to be designated as a Scheduled Ancient Combe Down, which at 1.03 miles (1672m) Monument in 1951. is the longest cycling tunnel in the UK. I In front of The George at Bathampton On exiting the tunnels continue over E is a beautiful spot for a picnic, or grab the reservoir – look up hill to the right Greenway some family-friendly food at the pub. to see Midford Castle. Sometimes there is a barge selling ice MIDFORD CASTLE cream. DISTANCE TIME ABILITY Once Nicholas Cage’s home, this folly was J Leave the canal path and go up left to built in 1775 in the shape of the ace of clubs. the traffic lights on the pavement and 12.5 MILES 2.5-3.5 HRS LEVEL 3 cross Warminster road. You can then drop OPTIONAL EXTRA down Sydney Road – you will pass Sydney Before doubling back towards Monkton Gardens and the Holburne Museum on Combe/Tucking Mill (where William Smith the right. the “father of Geology” was born in 1769), Pass along the Georgian architectural Combe Down Tunnel you could continue a little further (½ mile) K (the longest cycling tunnel in the UK) to the Hope and Anchor for a break and wonders of Great Pulteney Street and family-friendly food. There is also the option Pulteney Bridge (often featured in period to continue on National Cycle Network route dramas and films). 24 to Wellow (2.5 miles), Radstock (6.9 You are now back in the heart of Bath where Midford Castle miles) or further south to Frome (11.9 miles). you will find many cafés, patisseries, pubs, The surface on these routes is uneven in restaurants alongside a huge range of places, there are hills and some quiet roads. Dundas Aqueduct attractions. F Take a left off the cycle path and head L If you wish, continue on to Kingsmead Canal path almost back on yourself towards Square – which has multiple cafés for a Monkton Combe. quick coffee and cake. G After The Wheelwright Arms (a lovely M Join the quiet river path for the final mile. “One of the most scenically varied and sightseeing-rich gastro pub) and Monkton Combe School couple of hours of cycling anywhere in Britain.” turn right and drop down onto the quiet The Independent road leading to the canal. 5 6 Lansdown Wood A4 A4 L B a r n LARKHALL a s d d f o o w r BATHFORD n d TWO TUNNELS R R A I d d 4 Rd n 9 WESTON do on d L BATHAMPTON GREENWAY R n Mountain de m Wood Ca 4 Map Key L A d a A R 3 A n 6 ter s ns 3 d armi 6 W 3 o w 8 Cycle Route Traffic-free n R d B 10 W a esto t n Rd h w Rowbarrow i ck S Wood N t t J Bathwick e S Bathampton w b t Cycle Route on Road ri Wood dg o Wood c e l H a ill LOWER W WESTON B A4 r Newbridge Rd 12 o Tunnel no exits a d S BATHWICK M t K 36 Starting Point A J L 11 a Home Wood A A m 36 Hengrove 1 L A o e 1 w s 3 3 e UNIVERSITY Wood W r S 6 B Br a is t r to OF BATH m 7 l B R d a in Mile Markers t s h t w e ic r k Hill R d A367 d R J s un ll c e Smallcombe Points of Interest ti o W n BATH Wi Wood R P dco r mbe H d io ill r P a C r la k ve rt R on Access Points W D Limekiln d ow 1 e n Copse l R l d s w a y CLAVERTON CLAVERTON B WIDCOMBE Rainbow Wood DOWN Refreshments C R a Follet’s l p h Wood A l E l ng e lish n Klondyke co m D be Ln 2 Copse Warleigh Public Toilets r Little Klondyke Claverton Wood Copse Wood d Rd. 6 l B fie r om Larch Wood a lo s Long Wood s B Rd k own n ton D o Fairy Wood aver c Cl k e r H d i h Rd l ort l R y N a r D e w t s Elevation (m) ll s e n Fr i o W m m d r R e h a 192 R ort d N W O COMBE l 144 d DOWN F o Dundas Aqueduct s 96 s ODD Rd e ord f H R d DOWN Bra 48 d G 5 y Fry’s Wood a L 0 sw o l w el Conkwell W e 0 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 r Wood M 3 S i MONKTON t dfo Beech Wood o rd k Rd COMBE e Start Elevation: 20m Dodleaze Wood Max Elevation: 162m E Priory Wood 4 Midford Gain: 235m Castle Slitterns Short Wood Limpley Climbs on Route: 5 SOUTH Wood Stoke Wood Grove Wood STOKE d R d Rowley r o F Wood f WINSLEY d i 7 M Hayes Wood Murhill LIMPLEY Woods Engine STOKE Wood MIDFORD.