People often say to me they'd love to take the children cycling but are put off by cars. Well here's reasonably gentle route where you'll hardly see a gas guzzler.
Apart from the climb out of Evershot the terrain wheels across gentle downland with wide skies beneath the chalk escarpments of the Dorset Downs.
Note: It is advisable to dismount and cross the busy A37 on foot!
W
orth a detour is St Mary's Church at Melbury Bubb which possesses an intriguing and exotic font made from the inverted base of a Saxon cross. The sinuous carvings covering it have a definite influence of the Norse.
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| Saxon font, Melbury Bubb |
The village of Leigh has the remains of an ancient miz maze or turf maze and further on you pass the Friary of St Francis- no Gothic pile but a beautifully situated farm open to the public for retreats.
Distance 17.5 miles
Time around 4hrs
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