Quantock Hills Rides (27km) Print

A choice of a long 27 km ride with option of shorter loops of 10.5km and 19km

Waypoint Start Quantock Hills Rides
Quantock Ride 1 2 - Approx. 6.5 miles short route 11.5miles long. Start and Finish%3a Lydeard Hill Car Park GR180338. Could also join ride from Seven Wells Car Park GR173373

Waypoint 1 Quantock Hills Rides
From car park go through bridle gate eastwards onto permissive bridleway BW near the car park entrance. Follow BW through wood. After 300m go through bridle gate. Waypoint 2 Quantock Hills Rides
Turn left onto unsurfaced track After 750m track forks take left hand track through gate and downhill. Waypoint 3 Quantock Hills Rides
Continue downhill to a road by some cottages Waypoint 4 Quantock Hills Rides
Turn left on road beside a pond. Before Durborough Farm buildings go right through gate onto BW. Follow track up valley with stream on left for 800m to where there is a gate and field ahead Waypoint 5 Quantock Hills Rides
Bear right and uphill on BW. BW becomes a small path onto Aisholt Common to join well defined stony track beside edge of conifer woodland. Waypoint 6 Quantock Hills Rides
Turn right follow track for approx 1 km. Turn left where there is a break in the bank and a bridle gate after track has gone through dip. Waypoint 7 Quantock Hills Rides
Turn left onto wide hard forest track through woodland. After 1.4km another BW joins from the right leading to Cockercombe Bottom and Plainsfield . Follow track uphill out of wood through gate onto small roa Waypoint 8 Quantock Hills Rides
For short ride turn left along road for 100m to Triscombe Car Park. Through gate by cattle grid and turn left on well defined track. Follow forest track straight ahead through forest gate. For long ride turn sharply right. Follow forest track BW straight ahead through forest gate. Follow BW as it heads downhill. After 800m track splits. Take left-hand fork BW continuing downhill. Stay on this track to bottom of hill at edge of wood. Waypoint 9 Quantock Hills Rides
Turn left following Greenway signs. Continue downhill on BW past Great Wood Camp on right to Seven Wells car park keeping stream on right Waypoint 10 Quantock Hills Rides
For medium length ride turn left andtake track to right of cottage stream now on left heading gently uphill on bridleway. This leads to Ramscombe where there is another picnic area and car park. For long ride turn right to 13 following Greenway waymarks. Follow Greenway waymarks for approx 700m where the Greenway turns left off forest track. Waypoint 11 Quantock Hills Rides
Follow track until you reach a bend with a distinct forest track ahead. Take this track uphill. After 1km go through gate onto Quantock Common. Waypoint 12 Quantock Hills Rides
Cross over road to Crowcombe Park Gate car park or bear left to join the old Drove Waypoint 13 Quantock Hills Rides
Take small BW through forest for 100m. On coming out onto forest road turn left and continue on forest road uphill. Waypoint 14 Quantock Hills Rides
At top of hill go through a gate to small car park. Turn left and follow track parallel to road to Dead Womans Ditch Car Park. Go through car park through gap in bank cross road onto well defined track. Good view to north . Turn left. Waypoint 15 Quantock Hills Rides
After 800m at crossroads of bridleways turn right Waypoint 16 Quantock Hills Rides
turn right and follow BW due north for nearly 2km. At next crossroads of BWs turn left down through oak woods. Track goes round to left then hairpin bends back to right down to stream. Waypoint 17 Quantock Hills Rides
You will come to open space with many tracks joining. Cross stream and take second left track and start heading uphill. After 1.5km you come to top of hill at Bicknoller Post. Waypoint 18 Quantock Hills Rides
A few metres after Bicknoller Post turn left at junction and follow left hand fork. Now stay on main Drove. 2km brings you to Halsway Post identified by fire beater post . Waypoint 19 Quantock Hills Rides
Continue straight on for approx 600m where track forks. Take right fork and continue back to Lydeard Hill Car Park following numbers 8 and 9 of Short Ride. Waypoint 20 Quantock Hills Rides
Cross road and follow The Drove with beech banks on both sides. After 2km you reach Triscombe Stone and crossroads. Waypoint 22 Quantock Hills Rides
Follow for about 600m with bank and woodland on left. At fork take right fork away from woods and follow this track back to car park going through one gate. Waypoint 23 Quantock Hills Rides