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West Country Way trundling route | cycle.travel cycle◦travel Route GuidesRoutes ▼MunicipalityGuidesCities ▼ Map My Avenue Verte France Avenue Verte UK BayTrundlingWay C2C Celtic Trail Coast & Castles Cornish Way Cotswold LineTrundlingacross the Beacons Devon C2C Hadrian's Cycleway Kennet & Avon Lon Cambria London to Brighton Lon Las Cymru Lon Teifi Oxford to Cambridge Pennine Cycleway Radnor Ring Thames Valley Tour de Yorkshire Way of the Roses West Country Way • Bikes on trains •Waterwaycycling • Full list Birmingham Bristol Cambridge London Oxford Swindon Worcester York • Full list • Add your municipality West Country Way Guide Routebook Gallery Stay Ride reports Forum ...through Somerset and Devon the quiet way Route facts 3 Length: 187 miles Difficulty: Moderate GPX file: Download Devon is a county of quiet rural lanes, an intricate mesh of narrow, twisting connections between tiny villages and isolated farms. You might think this is platonic cycling territory – and you’d be right.The West Country Way is the trundling route from Bristol, through Somerset and Devon, to the Atlantic at Bude – just inside Cornwall. From there, the Cornish Way continues to the tip of England at Land’s End. In Somerset and East Devon, it follows waterway towpaths. Deeper into Devon, and the railway paths take over. Exmoor is as hilly and as remote as you’ve heard, but all the increasingly unmissable for that. But it’s not all remote scenery: there’s a string of lulu towns withal the way, from Wells and Glastonbury to Tiverton and Barnstaple. The long detour via Exmoor ways this isn’t a fast route, but it’s certainly an enjoyable one.What sort of bike?The surface is pretty good throughout, so a road velocipede will be fine; gravelly waterway towpaths are the worst you’ll encounter. Hybrid bikes are the typical NationalTrundlingNetwork steed and will moreover cope fine.How many days?Barnstaple is 140 miles from Bristol, so three or four days for an stereotype cyclist. Bude is flipside 45 miles remoter on, but doesn’t have a railway station. As such, it might be easiest to combine the last section of the West Country Way with the start of the Cornish Way, which meets the railway then at Bodmin.Between Bristol and Tiverton, the railway is unchangingly within easy reach. Great Western Railway’s local trains are bike-friendly but the long-distance ones require booking. Stage-by-stage guide and map » Click through to our detailed maps, stage-by-stage guide, walk-up and campsite listings. cycle◦travel Made in the Cotswolds, England. Published by Éditions Système D Ltd. Terms of use & cookies · About us · Advertise · Feedback · Contact us