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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 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 , the Strawberry Line trains to . 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 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 Station was once the junction with the bus rapid transit rail grassland and dense scrub. Vale Light Railway. Forest of Cheddar Cycle Store 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, , 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 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. 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. www.sustrans.org.uk Wells 25 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

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