Cycling – East Devon’s Best Routes

Cycling is one of the best ways to see East Devon's beautiful countryside.

There are wonderful cycle paths and trails all around the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Cycling guides can provide circular routes along quiet, almost car-free country roads (although it’s far busier in the summer!). The cycle routes are some of the best ways to appreciate the scenery around the River Otter, River Axe, and the coastline of the Sidmouth and Ladram Bay area.

Our local routes include;

National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 2 - a long distance trail, part of which runs through East Devon from Axminster through Seaton, Sidmouth and circumnavigates the Exe Estuary. Also known as the South Coast Cycle Route, it has off-road sections, as well as following quiet roads and the former railway line between Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton.

The Buzzard Route (Sustrans regional route number 52) is an 80-mile circular trail, around Sidmouth, Seaton, Axminster, Honiton and Woodbury

Our favourite is The East Devon Trail (EDT) a 115-mile (185 km) bikepacking route through East Devon, a rural and coastal landscape between the county's capital of Exeter and the neighbouring counties of Dorset and Somerset. It showcases this magnificent, and too often overlooked part of Devon, which will astound you with the sheer variety of habitats, from freshwater marshes to lowland heath, green agricultural field networks, steep cliffs, pebbled beaches, and sleepy woodland.

Very near to Bowhayes Farm the trail passes through Tipton St John with its locally famous gastro pub, the 'Golden Lion', culinary delights abound at the best pub in Tipton! There are plentiful places to restock with delicious, locally produced food and drink, we can arrange hampers or just indulge yourselves with breakfast at the Bowhayes Farm Coffee Shop.

Accessibility is really important when biking, so rail is an easy way to reach the East Devon Trail, which both starts and finishes at the main train station in Exeter. Call us to arrange transfers to and from Bowhayes Farm – Camping and Coffee Shop.

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