Recommendations for camping/cycling in Wiltshire

[AndyCarolan]

Anyone have any recommendations for camping and cycling in Wiltshire?

 

[jay clock]

Yes. I stealth camped there last year and it was a BEAUTIFUL experience - see here http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/france2009v2

I also camped last weekend at this site http://www.churchfarmcandcpark.co.uk/ (been here lots before) and it is perfect - brand new heated toilet block, wifi, bar/food but still a quiet place with no privet hedges dividing things up. he has a couple of other fields you can go in if it is busy but I have never seen it full up

 

[Norm]

For a nice gentle ride, I can recommend the Kennet and Avon canal. I did the 60-odd miles home from the other side of Bedwyn last September, it was a lovely ride.

Let us know where and when and we'll meet up for a beer.

 

[AndyCarolan]

Yes. I stealth camped there last year and it was a BEAUTIFUL experience - see here http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/france2009v2

I also camped last weekend at this site http://www.churchfarmcandcpark.co.uk/ (been here lots before) and it is perfect - brand new heated toilet block, wifi, bar/food but still a quiet place with no privet hedges dividing things up. he has a couple of other fields you can go in if it is busy but I have never seen it full up

Thanks for those links. I like the sound of the Church Farm Park. Will have a look through your blog tomorrow, Its bedtime here

 

[AndyCarolan]

For a nice gentle ride, I can recommend the Kennet and Avon canal. I did the 60-odd miles home from the other side of Bedwyn last September, it was a lovely ride.

Let us know where and when and we'll meet up for a beer.

yay, beer... Helen and I are more whisky based lifeforms though

 

[Norm]

Ooo, that'll work just as well.

 

[andym]

Ridgeway? Otherwise the various NCN routes are good. Avebury, Stonehenge, Silbury Hill and the other prehistoric sites in the area are definitely worth a tour.

 

[AndyCarolan]

Ooo, that'll work just as well.

Even better I find

 

[chris__P]

wouldnt recommend the ridgeway. i was on it today, had to turn back when the track became impassable on my touring bike

 

[andym]

yep the question mark was because the original poster hadn't said what sort of bike [edit: should have read the blurb in his signature].

Most of the Ridgeway is doable on a hybrid or MTB, but certainly when i last did it, the descent to Avebury was very rutted.

 

[AndyCarolan]

Sorry, my bad. It will be on two MTBs (Helen on her Carrera Fury and me on the Focus)