COLLINGBOURNE WOOD, WILTSHIRE
DISTANCE 35.5KM (22 MILES) CLIMBING 665M (2,181FT) TIME 2HRS 30MINS TO 3HRS 30MINS
Route summary A mixture of exploring sheltered woodland singletrack and the open, rolling hills along quiet lanes and bridleways through the scenic countryside
Start/finish Car park off Chick’s Lane in Collingbourne Ducis, by the village hall and primary school (postcode SN8 3UH, grid ref SU 241/540)
1 Head back to the crossroads and go left. Leave the village. Make a right on the bridleway past the farm, then climb and cross a road on a driveway past Herridge Stud Farm. Climb to a junction and go straight on, into the woods. Follow this, bearing right and descending.
2 After a bridleway crosses your path, bear left and then fork right. Continue for 300m and go left on a trail with berms. At the bottom, turn right and follow the valley to a forest track, then go straight on, on some singletrack.
3 Ride along the edge of the wood and onto a byway. Go left on a bridleway opposite a cottage. Climb into the woods and descend onto a track you crossed before. Go straight and fork right. Climb to the forest entrance. 4 Keep ahead past the farm to a road. Go left, then quickly right on a bridleway. Climb and bear right until just past some houses. Turn right and climb steeply. Cross the tarmac onto some singletrack, descend and, after a right bend, keep ahead at the fork to cross a road.
5 Turn left at the next road, keep left through Upper Chute, go right at the triangle and descend to a track crossing. Turn left on the singletrack, keep ahead to emerge by the cottage again and go right, down to the forest track. Keep ahead, then bear left at the fork.
6 Immediately go left on some singletrack. At a wide track, head straight into the woods on some singletrack, following the edge of the trees. Bear left and leave the woods. Go left at the T-junction and left on a track.
7 Fork right by the farm, up into the woods. Pass where you crossed earlier, then keep ahead at a track crossing as the track bears right. Keep ahead, dropping to the track from earlier. Go ahead/left on it, then left after 0.6km. Ride along the edge of the woods.
8 Go right at the T-junction, join a track at the bottom and ride to a crossroads. Go left, right after 0.5km and right at the main road. Ride over the roundabout and head left at the crossroads, back to the car park.