Is there a better way to town than this?

[hebe]

I would never have never known about this path if I hadn't learned to ride. It's so beautiful - an ancient bridleway that is believed to go back at least 700 years and which used to link a manor house in town to its gateway lodge on the outskirts. It's easy to imagine horses and carriages going back and forth. Now it has a small hospital at one end and a new housing estate close to the other, but is still beyond wonderful. Traffic-free and wide, and a no-brainer alternative to the busy main road that it short-cuts.

[Bike Writer]

I'd be looking for reasons to go to town! How beautiful that is, it looks tranquil.

[chryss]

This is extremely lovely. I do miss England's landscapes sometimes, though I have no reason to complain where I am right now, in the middle of the Alaskan taiga (spruce forest).

[AppleTree]

When I dream of being on my bike (when I'm not)...this is the kind of place that I dream of ...thanks so much for sharing your slice of heaven with us!

[Trek-chick]

beautiful...I can almost hear the birds singing

[OakLeaf]

Wow!

[azfiddle]

Beautiful!

Where in England are you? My daughter went to UEA in Norwich for a year and is going back to Cambridge for her master's program... and to be with her boyfriend, a law student there. I went to visit her last May, but only saw the area around Norwich and some of London.

[hebe]

I'm in Wiltshire, which is to the West, fairly close to Avebury and Stonehenge (Cambridge and Norwich are both to the East). Cambridge is meant to be be very cycle-friendly, and Norwich is very flat.

Thank you for all the comments. I still can't believe it's right on my doorstep, there's just a short stretch of busy road before I nip down a side road to join that path. It has turned my trips into town into something to look forward to.

Chryss, you sound as if you're somewhere very scenic indeed!