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Cycling Routes For Foodies
Pedal and taste your way through some of Britain’s most beautiful countryside and coastal towns on these cycling routes for foodies. Taste oysters in Whitstable, cheese in Cheddar and mussels and English wine cycling along the Exe Valley. It makes a delicious day out.
Pedal and Taste Your Way Along These Cycle Routes For Foodies
Sip Tea as You Cycle Past London’s Landmarks on The Tweed Run
Central London (May)
The Tweed Run is London’s best dressed cycle ride. Take a leisurely and very stylish cycle past London’s most famous landmarks and enjoy tasting stops along the way.
Taste Gin and Visit London’s Markets on a Pashley Bike
Central London
Gin lovers get ready to saddle up and enjoy a cycling tour of London. You’ll learn about the history of gin in London, take in the sights and smells of London’s best street markets and have a little gin tasting along the way.
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Cycle The Crab and Winkle Way between Canterbury and Whitstable
Whitstable, Kent
Seafoodies will love cycling along this historic old railway line, home to the first regular steam passenger railway in the world. It’s affectionately known as the Crab and Winkle way.
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Get a Sweet Sugar Rush Cycling or Walking The Monsal Trail
Bakewell, Peak District, Derbyshire
Reward yourself with a traditional Bakewell Pudding after walking or cycling the 9-mile Monsal Trail (also known as the Cake Trail). It follows the former railway line offering spectacular views of the Derbyshire countryside and the magnificent Monsal viaduct as you taste and go.
Stop to Taste Cheese Along The Tissington Trail
Tissington, Peak District, Derbyshire
Walk or cycle the 13 mile Tissington Trail stopping off at villages en route to taste local cheese, cream teas and ice cream as you go.
Graze and Cycle in Vintage Style at Eroica Britannia
Bakewell, Peak District, Derbyshire
Eroica Britannia is a 3 day vintage cycling festival in which 3,600 riders take on the Peak District’s renowned cycling routes. The festival celebrates a love of food with its feast stops and Graze food fair.
Eat, Pedal and Taste Wine Along the Exe Estuary Trail
Exmouth, Devon
Tracing the Exe Valley from Dawlish to Exmouth, this 17.5 mile long estuary trail is fairly flat. It presents plentiful opportunities to stop off at cafés, pubs, vineyards and the renowned Darts Farm as you pedal your way along the estuary soaking up the view and working up an appetite.
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Cycle Through Somerset’s Apple Orchards on The Cider Cycle Trail
Langport, Somerset Levels
Cycle along the quiet roads and tracks of the Somerset Levels on the Cider Trail. This 13 mile circular route will take you to a long-established maker of kitchen pots, a family run smokery and the Somerset Distillery and Burrow Hill Cider Farm.
Cycle the Strawberry Line & Feast on Strawberries, Cheese & Cider
Cheddar, Somerset
Cycle or walk along the Strawberry Line which was built in 1869 to connect the West Country’s strawberry fields to the rest of the UK. The former railway line ends in scenic Cheddar where you can see the world-famous cheese being made.
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Tour Ampleforth Abbey’s Apple Orchard & Taste Award-Winning Cider and Beers
Ampleforth, Yorkshire
Ampleforth Abbey is an impressive Grade II listed Benedictine monastery and school. Situated in one of North Yorkshire’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it has an equally outstanding reputation for cider and beer making.
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