BE A HAVENSTREET STEAM CYCLE Experience sustainable transport RED ROUTE BICYCLE ISLAND ITINERARY #9 A CHALLENGING RIDE FOR THE ADVENTUROUS TYPE WHO FEELS CONFIDENT ON AND OFF-ROAD START/FINISH: SHIDE ROAD, NEWPORT PO30 1YQ TIME: 2-3 HOURS – Taking you over St Georges Down and on to Havenstreet, Wootton Bridge and Island Harbour DISTANCE: km / ELEVATION GAIN: m 20 357 Portsmouth To Southampton s y s rr Southsea Fe y Cowe rr Cowe Fe East on - ssenger on - Pa / e assenger l ampt P c h hi Southampt Ve out S THE EGYPT POINT OLD CASTLE POINT e ft SOLENT yd R GURNARD vercra BAY Cowes e 2 5 East Cowes y Gurnard 3 3 rr tsmouth - B OSBORNE BAY ishbournFe de r Lymington F enger Ho Ry y nger Po rr ass sse Fe P rtsmouth/Pa - Po e hicl Ve rtsmouth - ssenger Po Rew Street Pa T THORNESS AS BAY CO RIVER MEDINA E RYDE AG K E PIER HEAD ERIT Whippingham E H RYDE N C R Ve L Northwood O ESPLANADE A 3 0 2 1 ymington - TT PUCKPOOL hic NEWTOWN BAY OO POINT W Fishbourne l Marks A 3 e /P Corner T 0 DODNOR a 2 0 A 3 0 5 4 Ryde ssenger AS CREEK & DICKSONS Binstead Ya CO Quarr Hill RYDE COPSE ST JOHN’S ROAD rmouth Wootton Spring Vale G E R CLA ME RK I N Bridge TA IVE HERSEY RESERVE, Fe R Seaview LAKE WOOTTON SEAVIEW DUVER rr ERI Porcheld FIRESTONE y H SEAGR OVE BAY OWN Wootton COPSE Hamstead PARKHURST Common WT FOREST NE Newtown Parkhurst Nettlestone P SMALLBROOK B 0 4 3 3 PRIORY BAY NINGWOOD JUNCTION SCONCE BRIDDLESFORD Havenstreet COMMON P COPSES G POINT SWANPOND N ODE’S POINT BOULDNOR Cranmore Newtown deserted HAVENSTREET COPSE P COPSE Medieval village P P A 3 0 5 4 Ashey Norton Bouldnor A 3 0 5 P Yarmouth Shaleet St Helens BEMBRIDGE Cli End Ningwood Newport AIL 5 POINT R R T B 3 3 3 0 YA F ASHEY A 3 0 5 4Norton WELL Thorley Thorley Street Carisbrooke SHIDE N Green MILL COPSE NU CHALK PIT B 3 3 COL WELL BAY FRESHW Bembridge B R 9 0 R I V E R 3 4 0 1 EAGLEHEAD AND YA GOLDEN P BRADING P 126 A S H E Y BLOODSTONE COPSE A Wellow V E R MARSHES HILL 0 1 Shide TER B 3 4 131 P COUNTRY Downend D O W N RI W M E R S L E Y L P PARK AY Five Houses D O W N Brading TRAI F ORELAND BRADING 9 5 Newbridge 3 D S T G E O R G E ’ S Michael Morey’s The Devil’s 3 A B L Hump DOWN A 3 0 5 138 KNIGHTON Punchbowl 5 RAI D O W N ARRETON TOTLAND BAY T DOWN BRADING Freshwater 105 DOWN P SON Brading Down HAMSTE Y 109 BEMBRIDGE TRAIL NN Bowcombe Field System Calbourne E 39 Totland AFTON T Arreton MARSHES Blackwater Morton Bembridge Fort 105 HATHERWOOD 1 P P B 3 3 4 0 B E M B R I D G E Culver WHITECLIFF BAY Middleton 9 9 B 3 Adgestone POINT Battery D O W N 100 Headon Afton 79 East Afton N E W B A R N 160 Langbridge 2 151 Warren 2 Down Barrows 3 Neolithic 3 D O W N Alverstone B Mortuary Freshwater Bay 164 Yaverland P Tennyson P E A S T A F T O N B R O O K 2 3 3 B Harborough Enclosure Newchurch Monument Memorial 147 P D O W N Chessell Horringford MARTIN’S D O W N 165 BRIGHSTONE 3 P WOOD ALUM BAY C O M P T FOREST THE P W E S T H I G H D O W N O N CULVER AIL ‘Five Barrows’ Gatcombe Merstone SON TR D O W N 213 ALVERSTONE MEAD, NEEDLES TENNY Brook Down 9 5 CLIFF FRESHWATER BAY Harboro’ Barrow 3 3 YOUNGWOODS COPSE B P Mottistone Down AND SANDOWN MEADOWS P B R I G H S T O N E 65 152 SANDOWN D O W N W E S T O V E R D O W N C OMPTON BAY A 3 0 5 6 Winford 175 Rookley SCRATCHELL’S The Longstone 165 R O W B O R O U G H AST Chillerton BAY 167 CO Hulverstone D O W N Hill Fort Sandown G E P 106 A A R HERIT Brook Y LAKE HANOVER POINT P Mottistone C H I L L E R T O N R Chillerton RIVE Lake D O W N Apse Heath P W OR SLEY BROOK BAY Moortown P TR A AIL Shorwell 3 0 2 AMERICA SANDOWN WOOD BAY 0 Brighstone P A P N B P Limerstone 3 3 9 9 Sandford SHANKLIN L P TRAI Godshill Whiteley Bank Yaord S R I V E R M E D I ST 94 E Thorncross NBUR Shanklin 85 Y Upper Hyde SHEPHERD TR SIBDEN HILL & H E R IT Worsley AI BATTS COPSE Monument L A G E A 3 C O 70 S T M A R T I N ’ S A S 0 5 5 T Roud D O W N 209 235 154 S T E N B U R Y Luccombe BRIGHSTONE S H A N K L I N P D O W N Wroxall BAY Chale Green D O W N P P 145 Athereld Green 210 P LUCCOMBE BAY B Hoy’s 3 Luccombe Down B B L E A K 3 199 93 Monument Southford 2 233 Barrow D 7 ATHERFIELD POINT 9 O W N 240 NANSEN S T B O N I FA C E HILL Bonchurch W E E K D O W N S T C AT H E R I N E ’ S D O W N D O W N P P Whitwell REW DOWN St. Catherine’s Kingates Chale Oratory Ventnor P MONKS BAY CHALE BAY ST LAWRENCE 237 UNDERCLIFF Niton Blackgang P PELHAM WOODS VENTNOR BAY St Lawrence P 5 A 3 0 5 P ROCKEN END BINNEL ENGLISH BAY REETH BAY ST CATHERINE’S T C O AS POINT G E I TA CHANNEL H ER E A © OpenStreetMap Map: © Mapbox, D B C DIRECTIONS: A START: Turn right out of the car park D Turn right at the traffic lights but look left tracks of the steam railway (take care!) and and cross over the road. Look for an entrance after 300m and turn left onto N90 Havenstreet head for Wootton. just past the brick wall opposite the junction. bridleway which will take you through a farm. Take A28 St Georges Lane, – caution it gets Turn right onto N18 Havenstreet Station when G When you reach Wootton take a left onto steep! you reach the road. route 22 and follow past the back of Wootton High Street. Turn left onto Station Road. After B You will pass St Georges Golf Course E Turn right and visit the award-winning Isle of 400m, just past old church or opposite Wootton on your left. Keep following the A28 Arreton Wight Steam Railway which will engage, inspire Station, turn right onto Newport 22. Follow the for 2 miles. You will pop out of this bridleway and excite you. After checking this attraction cycle path all the way to North Fairlee Road. opposite a lifeboat! (You’ve arrived at the out follow the road back on yourself passing the Cross over the road and onto Mill Lane N121, Shipwreck Museum at Arreton Barns. track where you popped out. into Island Harbour Marina – the cycle track is towards the bottom of the Harbour. Turn left C Turn left onto Down End Road. This steep F After 300m turn right onto N17 Briddlesford. onto Medina Greenway, which takes you all sharp climb will take you up hill to the Hare and Pass two metal farm gates and pass through the way back into Newport. Follow the River Hounds pub. Great Briddlesford Farm. After 200m turn right Medina or route 22 back to the car park. onto ‘N12 Wootton Bridge’ crossing over the FINISH Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions. To download the GPX data to your GPS device and find more cycling itineraries go to visitisleofwight.co.uk/inspiration/bicycle-island.