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This is great stuff, cheers all!
@owl - Looks like I can borrow heavily from your LEJOG route all the way from Hay to Cheddar Gorge. I did LEJOG this time last year and did similar route from Chepstow to Monmouth but following the river more closely. (We headed north from Monmouth towards Hereford.)
Re: Severn Bridge-to-Mendips, I don't know that part of the world very well. Would you recommend your route through Bristol rather than bypassing via Portishead/Clevedon? Is it a bit industrial along there? I did go through Bristol on LEJOG, but just following the Bath-Bristol cycle path and turning right at Avonmouth.
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owl
I've ridden quite a lot around those parts, here are some bits:
The first part of this
route gives you a lovely ~25 miles from Oxford largely in the direction you need.
This is a day I rode on a LEJOG a few years back, a lovely ride between Monmouth and Chepstow, but the REAL highlight (one of the top bits of the entire LEJOG) was riding Hay Bluff in the black mountains, ideally you wan to route it so you come from south to north into Hay, but either way, it's just an absolute stunner of a road and the scenery is unexpectedly dramatic.
This was the preceding day on LEJOG including Cheddar - the Somerset levels before Cheddar were surprisingly charming and the Mendips up at the top were absolutely stunning and really quiet, thoroughly recommend.