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Discover this tranquil hidden piece of A challenging climb that takes you back Swoop down through the plantation Climb through evergreen oak woods Three countryside on the edge of Bristol. A Cornered in time to the top of a hill fort. Dominating and pedal hard up the climbs. Ashton to discover caves and rocky outcrops. great place to ride on quiet lanes and Wood the countryside below Dolebury Hill Churchill Hill Plantation is a fun family ride Paths loop round the contours and there’s Nortons woodland tracks. Fort is a place of high adventure where Batch through woods. always something new to discover around Wood Abbots Swiss Snake’s Well Pond imaginations can run riot. Churchill the corner like the woodman’s cottage Valley Wood Fish Pond Quarry or the limestone seats. Wood Ashton Hill East Tanpit The Gordano Plantation West Tanpit Wood George’s Hill Round Wood Snake’s Well Distance: 2km/1m. Plantation Distance: 3km/2km. Plantation Time: 1.5 hrs with 6 year old Limestone Distance: A maze of different paths The Yew Tree twins and plenty of playing ‘Robin Time: 1hr riding with a 7yr old. Warren Distance: 3.5km/2m. Plantation Link allow you to tailor a route from short Hood’ in the trees and on the fort’s Dolebury Hill Surface: Dolebury Compact gravel forest 30 minute strolls to all afternoon Time: 1.5hrs with a 7 and 8yr old. embankments. Fort Court Court Round Hill Warren roads. exploring and den-building. Hill Wood Surface: Lanes, surfaced and Clump Surface: Concrete track, then stoney Shipley :c\m\[fe Obstacles: Some long gentle Brake Time: 30 minutes – 3 hours. East :flik un-surfaced. lane and then grass slopes. Cook’s Clevedon descents and climbs. Wood Surface: Woodland paths. Obstacles: Round Hill Obstacles: Very steep terrain. Wet and muddy in winter. Log Ride Activities: Good wide trails Obstacles: Some steep paths and Ride Activities: A gentle ride in Walk Activities: Really steep slopes and a variety of slopes are great for Land Yeo gates. this beautiful area with orchards and to play on and trees to hide in and practising braking on descents and hidden valleys. Stop and play by the climb. For the really energetic you pedalling out of the saddle! More Walk Activities: At the western pools or pick blackberries along the GUIDE can follow the ridge line along which GUIDE adventurous challenges can be found GUIDE end of the woods there are rocky GUIDE lanes in autumn. leads to Rowberrow Forest and Black on the ‘singletrack’ in the woods. limestone outcrops and Foxes Cave Down above Burrington Combe. to discover, some are remnants of the Local Activities: For the more Local Activities: The Timberland designed landscape behind Clevedon adventurous riders the Timberland Local Activities: Rowberrow Trail for more experienced young Court. The rest of the woods are ideal Trail passes nearby in Fifty Acre Church, High Action Centre riders starts at nearby Ashton Court. for den building and tree climbing. Wood, Ashton Court and Leigh – tobogganing, snow boarding, dry Tyntesfield, National Trust, is only Woods, where there are more trails skiing (Churchill), swimming pool at 2 minutes drive along the B3128. Local Activities: Clevedon Court, than you’ll know what to do with. Churchill Community School. Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm is 5 minutes National Trust (check opening times). drive on the B3128. Clevedon Craft Centre. Local Services: Abbots Leigh has a Local Services: Churchill Post Office pub. Tyntesfield (National Trust) and shop, Fish bar, 24 hour store, Local Services: Failand village has Local Services: Clevedon has a Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm are to the west 4 pubs in Churchill and the Swan Inn a shop and pubs. Long Ashton has wide range of local shops and places along the B3128. at Rowberrow. several pubs and shops. to eat. Parking: A public car park down a Parking: Small car park in Dolebury Parking: Car Park for the woods at Parking: All Saints Lane, Clevedon lane from Manor Road. Bottom, off the A38 south of Churchill. the top of Belmont Hill on the B3129. or Hill Lane, Tickenham.

Weston Woods Brockley Combe Crook Peak and CHELVEY Walk BATCH Chelvey Backwell Hill Wavering Down Yarberry Further information on walks and the countryside in Family adventure in these deep Wood Find a moments peace with your family woodlands. Small technical challenges Crook Peak towers over the M5 North Somerset will concentrate your mind in some in the woods above Weston. Where outside Weston. It’s a great place Winscombe atmospheric countryside. glimpses of Sand Bay and the coast Worlebury to feel the wind blasting across this Forest of Avon, Ashton Court Visitor Centre, Goblin Combe Environment Centre, punctuate playing in the woods. open ridge of the Mendip Hills. An Bristol BS41 9JN Plunder Street, Cleeve, adventurous walk or ride with views North Somerset BS49 4PQ from Glastonbury Tor to the Severn Tel: 0117 953 2141 Worlebury Hill Tap’s Estuary on National Trust land. Fax: 0117 953 2143 Tel: 01934 833723 Distance: 3km/2m. Combe Barton Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.forestofavon.org.uk Web: www.goblincombe.org.uk Time: 1.5 hours with a 6 and 8 yr Weston Woods old plus a dog – gentle pace with no Town Ashcombe Barton Hill stops. Other loops on foot and bike Quarry Wood Distance: 3km/2m. Crook Mendip Hills AONB Service, Forestry Commission, Peak are possible. Charterhouse Centre, Blagdon, Recreation Ranger, Coleford Area Office, Time: 1hr with a 12 yr old. Yorkhouse Distance: 7km/4.5m. Compton Bristol BS40 7XR Forestry Commission, Bank House, Surface: Compact gravel path and Cave Hill Kings Surface: Lanes and tracks, loose Wood Bank Street, Coleford GL16 8BA woodland path with small stones the Time: 2.5 hours walking there and Wavering Tel: 01761 462338 and rocky. further on you go (once past the iron Brockley back or 1 hours cycle there and back. Down Email: [email protected] Tel: 01594 833057 Wood Compton Web: www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk Email: [email protected] age fort). Obstacles: Long descent and climb Bishop Brockley Surface: Grassy and uneven. with loose stones. Willis’s Web: www.forestry.gsi.uk Obstacles: A few small inclines – Combe WESTON-SUPER-MARE Batch Obstacles: Steep in places. Weston Tourist Information Centre, the paths are suitable for bikes Ride Activities: A more challenging Beach Lawns, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AT National Trust, Walk Activities: Great place to (not stabilisers), 3 wheeler prams GUIDE route for off road riders where the GUIDE GUIDE Estate Office, Valley Road, fly a kite and feel the wind in your Tel: 01934 888800 (the off-roading type). surface will change from un-surfaced Leigh Woods BS8 3PZ lanes to slippery rocks. A technical face! The woodland s are rich with Fax: 01934 641741 Walk Activities: Follow the path in challenge for novice mountain bikers flowers like wild garlic and anemones Minicom: 01934 643172 Tel: 0117 973 1645 a straight line and you come to the of all ages but a great sense of in spring and buzzards are common Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] iron age fort, lots of rocks piled up in achievement can be found at the end! riding the thermals. Web: www.somersetcoast.com Web: www.nationaltrust.org.uk heaps, then onto the dug out bunkers, Local Activities: large holes that are great fun for hide Local Activities: Brockley Combe Historic Axbridge Clevedon Visitor Information Centre, Tyntesfield, and seek. Fantastic views of Sand has loads of bridleways to be is nearby and further on is Cheddar Clevedon Library, 37 Old Church Road, Wraxall, Bay from a clearing in the woods on discovered. Gorge. Clevedon BS21 6NN North Somerset BS48 1NT your right. Local Services: Local Services: Nearby Backwell Nearest pubs are Tel: 01275 873498 Tel: 01275 461900 Local Activities: Birnbeck Pier and and Cleeve have shops and pubs. in Cross. Winscombe and Axbridge Fax: 01275 343630 0870 458 4500 (Infoline) have plenty of local shops. Sand Bay. Parking: Informal parking at the Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Local Services: Various local pubs entrance to the timber products Parking: King’s Wood Car Park, off Web: www.somersetcoast.com Web: www.nationaltrust.org.uk and shops. centre. the A38 south of Winscombe.