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The Strawberry Line En Rust) Ow Arr Cheddar Cycl Cheddar Outh Hostel Y To Clevedon The Strawberry Line North End To Bristol Regular services to B 3 Bristol and Weston- 1 3 super-Mare 3 Claverham AD Cycles Strawberry Line Caf Yatton Station Yatton 0 7 3 A e Goldin Coombe -Mar Environment Centre B eston-superBiddle Street IDDLE ST To W SSSI Cadbury House Hotel Cadbury L WAL GANG Hill River Ye King John’s Hunting o The Woodlands Lodge, Axbridge A 3 7 0 Congresbury ANE Congresbury R L Station OO LEM DO Puxton Moor (Avon Wildlife Trust) The Strawberry Line Fishing Lakes Thatchers Farm Shop, B 3 Sandford Brinsea 1 33 To Weston -super-Mare Mendip Springs Golf Course D R Sandford Railway Station O V Heritage Centre E Honey Hall W A Y N Y Churchill Lower Langford E Thatchers D R To Farm Shop O V Sandford Banwell E A368 Sandford A 36 Sandford Station Village Store Dinghurst 8 Railway Heritage & Caf Centre Lyncombe Lodge & Avon Ski Centre 8 3 Dolebury Warren A (Woodland Trust) Dolebury Warren (Avon Wildlife Trust) Sandford Batch To Star Rowberrow Banwell Millennium Green Winscombe Rowberrow Warren Winscombe Station A Shipham 3 7 1 ay ip W West Mend Sidcot Sladers 8 Leigh 3 A King’s Shute Shelve Wood Tunnel Rose To Wood Weston -super- Mare Cheddar Wood Axbridge Cross A371 Cheddar King John's Hunting Lodge Sailing Club (National Trust) Cheddar Gorge and Caves Cheddar Reservoir Cheddar Youth Hostel A When you are on 3 7 the National Cycle 1 Network you will Cheddar Cycle Store see these signs 0 Miles 0.5 1 0 Kilometres 1 2 © Crown copyright and database rights How long will it take? 2012. Ordnance Survey 100023397. 6 minutes cycling will take you this far or this far You are not permitted to copy, sub-license, If you cycle at about 6 miles an hour If you cycle at about 10 miles an hour distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form. This map has been produced by North Somerset Council. Attractions along the route Contacts for further information Travel information This project is supported by: Brandon Trust, DEFRA, Heritage Lottery Fund, Mendip Hills AONB Clevedon is situated on the Bristol Channel Coast and Clevedon Visitor Information Centre North Somerset Council, was once a hillside settlement. It became a very popular 37 Old Church Road, Sustainable Travel and Road Safety Victorian seaside resort and has many fine examples of Clevedon BS21 6NN Castlewood Office, ROUTE MAP architecture from that era, including the only Grade 1 listed Tel 01934 426 020 Tickenham Road, Clevedon, BS21 6FW The Strawberry Line Heritage Trail is a 10 mile traffic- pier in the country. Email: [email protected] Tel 01934 426240 / 426404 free route through the heart of North Somerset linking Email: [email protected] the Levels to the Mendip Hills. The Strawberry Line Yatton Station is a mainline station with local trains Weston-super-Mare Tourist Information Centre www.n-somerset.gov.uk running to Weston-super-Mare and Bristol as well as direct The Winter Gardens, Part of the Great Western Railway, the Strawberry Line trains to London. From Yatton a branch line used to head Royal Parade, Details of train services to Yatton and bus services to was completed in 1869. It became an important line for north to Clevedon and south to Cheddar. Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AJ towns are available from Traveline. passengers and freight carrying dairy produce, stone, and, For all your information about cycling in Tel 01934 417 117 North Somerset and the West of England visit of course, the famous Cheddar strawberries from which it Biddle Street Site of Special Scientific Interest is Email: [email protected] takes its name. www.betterbybike.info drained by a network of ditches that act as ‘wet fences’ www.visitsomerset.co.uk between the fields. These ditches and their banks are www.TravelWest.info More maps and guides for this area The line was busy for nearly a century until it was closed Yatton to Cheddar rich in wild flowers and home to dragonflies and reed and in 1965. Since then the line has been reclaimed by nature sedge warblers. and is managed to protect and enhance a rich variety of 10 mile route Other places to walk or cycle Cycle hire wildlife habitats from ponds and wetlands to limestone Congresbury Station was once the junction with the bus rapid transit rail grassland and dense scrub. Wrington Vale Light Railway. Forest of Avon Cheddar Cycle Store Ashton Court Visitor Centre, Bristol BS41 9JN 1E Valley Line Industrial Park, Wedmore Road, Work began converting the line to a walking and cycling Thatchers Cider is made in Sandford from apples that Tel 0117 963 9174 Cheddar, Somerset, BS27 3EEhighways walk cycle route in 1983 by volunteers from the Cheddar Valley Walk are grown locally. The path passes through some of their Email: [email protected] Tel 01934 741 300 Society. Improvements are still being made to the route 25 orchards near Sandford, and you can try or buy their www.ashtoncourtestate.co.uk Email: [email protected] years later and more exciting projects are planned for the products at the Thatchers Farm Shop in the village. www.cheddarcyclestore.co.uk future including extending the route. The Strawberry Line Shute Shelve Tunnel takes the line through the heart of the Mendip Hills Sustrans and the National Cycle Network Cadco project would not be possible without the ongoing support AONB Unit, Charterhouse Centre, Blagdon, 8 Mendip Hills and contains several limestone formations. Area covered Newportby this map of a variety of volunteers and organisations. The Strawberry Line forms part of the National Cycle Network, Bristol BS40 7XR 10 2 more than 13,600 miles of traffic-free paths, quiet lanes and Winscombe Station has been restored and you can walk Tel 01761 462 338 Caerphilly 4 41 Find out more about the Strawberry Line at on-road walking and cycling routes in the UK. Email: [email protected] a timeline along the platform which ends at the Millennium 8 www.thestrawberryline.co.uk The Network is coordinated by Sustrans, the charity that’s Green. www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk enabling people to travel by foot, bike or public transport for Cardiff more of the journeys we make every day. Our work makes it Axbridge has changed little over the centuries and visitors For more information about cycling in the South West visit possible for people to choose healthier, cleaner and cheaper 3 can still wander around the charming medieval streets and www.betterbybike.info Weston- 26 journeys, with better places and spaces to move through and Bath soak up hundreds of years of history. super-Mare 10 live in. It’s time we all began making smarter travel choices. Cheddar Reservoir was opened in 1938 and was 33 24 designed to pump water from underground springs and Burnham- Make your move and support Sustrans today. on-Sea Cheddar rivers to serve the population of Bristol. Frome www.sustrans.org.uk Wells 25 Cheddar Gorge reaches 500 feet and the sides of Bridgwater the ravine boast the highest inland cliffs in the country. Glastonbury Cheddar Caves were inhabited by our early ancestors 30 Castle Cary 40,000 years ago and Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, 3 Cheddar Man, is on display. 339 26 Taunton 33 Sherborne Ilminster Yeovil Registered Charity No. 326550 (England and Wales) SCO39263 (Scotland) SOMERSET NORTH Cover: istockphoto.com.
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