Berrington Hall & Croft Castle Leisure Cycle Ride
Black & White Villages Leisure Cycle Ride
Hereford Leisure Cycle Ride
Ledbury Loop Leisure Cycle Ride
Three Rivers Leisure Cycle Ride
Wye Valley Leisure Cycle RideIf you need help to understand a document, or would like it in another format or language, please call 01432 260500 or email info@herefordshire.gov.uk
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Leisure cycling
The six cycle routes in the right hand panel have been chosen to give you a flavour of Herefordshire's diverse and wonderful landscape. They avoid main roads where possible, and the worst of the hills. Cycled over a day, with a picnic or refuelling stop at any of the pubs or places of interest, you can experience the beautiful scenery, charming villages and historic buildings that Herefordshire has to offer.The six routes, as PDF files, are available for download from the right hand panel. Each map is set to print as A4.
For a copy of the Herefordshire Leisure Cycle Guide which details all six routes please telephone 01432 260 514
Halo Leisure Bike Hire now open at The Cabin, Bishop's Meadow, Hereford
Other leisure links
Come Cycling Ledbury has been set up by members of the Ledbury Area Cycle Forum (LACF), a non-profit group that works to improve cycling facilities and promote cycle use in the East of Herefordshire. The Forum has also published a wide range of cycling maps for sale on their site.To the south of the county is Sustrans' Peregrine Path running between Symonds Yat and Monmouth. Alternatively leaflets may be ordered free of charge from Sustrans, tel: 0845 113 0065.
In the Forest of Dean the Forestry
Commission trails are well signposted.
There is the 11 mile
Family Cycle Trail, and more details are available
at Pedalabikeaway's
web site where they also have details on hiring bikes at
their locations in the forest and more recently on the
Peregrine Path.
Cannop
Valley Cycle Centre
Monmouth (on
the Peregrine Path)
The
full trail map.
There are also downhill
and cross country trails from the Cannop Valley cycle
centre for those seeking a more challenging ride.
The Forest of Dean Cycle
Association also organise kids mountain bike races.
Other ride information is available at our tourist information
centres (TIC) including two
cider
routes in the county. They usually have copies of
the "Cycles and Spires: Easy cycle routes to historic churches"
leaflets which include rides around Leominster, Tenbury Wells,
and Cleobury Mortimer.
Kington TIC publish two cycle
ride leaflets see our TIC page for
contact details.
Forestry Commission also have a number of cycle trails
atHopton
Wood (GR334820E 277770N) as well as those at
Sallowvallets
near Cannop Valley in the Forest of Dean.
Rough Rides have some
further off-road suggestions.
Wheely
Wonderful Cycling also sell a variety of
Herefordshire cycle guides including the Ordnance Survey Cycle
Tours: 24 One-day Routes in Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester
(Spiral-bound) by Nick Cotton (Editor) at £8.99 ISBN
0-540-08198
Just over the border is the National Cycle Collection in the
Automobile Palace at Llandrindod Wells visit their web site at
http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/.
The museum has over 250 bicycles of all ages on display along
with lots of cycle related memorabilia. They welcome
school party visits or can organise visits out to schools with
a variety of machines. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays at the
moment, they hope to have the museum open 5 days a week
from May 2011.
Long distance routes
As well as the National Cycle Network routes we are developing with Sustrans (see our cycling schemes page), the National Byway route between Chester and Cirencester passes through the county from Ludlow in Shropshire, and Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. The Herefordshire section takes in Leominster and Ledbury and is signed with distuinctive brown National Byway signs. You can order a copy of the official map of the route from the Sustrans shop.Mountain biking
The main point of contact for mountain biking is via the International Mountain Biking Association's website. There are four published routes in East Herefordshire on the Malvern Hills AONB web site available from Hereford TIC or through the IMBA shop along with two on-road routes.You may also use the stoned tracks in Haugh Wood near Mordiford (GR359500E 236500N), and IMBA has a number of unpublished bridleway routes in the county.
Routes suitable for mountain biking in neighbouring Powys are described by Rough Rides.
Mountain Mayhem organise mountain biking days and for Mountain Biking in Wales try the Mountain Biking Wales website.