New Passage to Stoke Bishop BS9 - quiet on-road route

The direct on road route from New Passage to BS9 through Pilning village and along Bank Road. The B road through Easter Compton can have fast traffic on the stretch west of Easter Compton. A 30 mph limit is in the legal processes.

Stoke Bishop BS9 to New Passage the hilly way

New Passage by crossing the Old Down ridge and then back again, descending Kyneton Hill and ascending Stock Hill, then returns south west through Littleton and Olveston and over Ingst Hill. Goes via Sweetwater Lane using a shorter length of the B road by descending to the west and reascending via Sweetwater Lane, which is easily graded, starting in woodland and coming out in meadow. (Alternative route via Mumbleys is more open, uses a greater length of the Aust - Alveston B road) Kyneton Hill is steep, needing braking all the way, but easier to go down than up.

Views across the Severn from Littleton Pill, the destination. Pasture, ditches and arable, with views from the edges of the Almondsbury Ridge and Old Down across the levels to the river most of the way.

As hilly as you can make a trip across marshland, and probably the longest way to New Passage without actually going somewhere else.

Littleton Wharf to Stoke Bishop BS9 - the normal, mostly flat route

Littleton Wharf to Stoke Bishop, using the easy climb over Stock Hill, then to Olveston for a pleasant arc across the levels along Pilning Street. Pasture, rhines and arable.

The straight stretch into Easter Compton can have fast traffic. A 30 mph limit is expected shortly.

Stoke Bishop BS9 to Littleton Wharf the hilly way

Littleton Wharf by crossing the Old Down ridge and then back again, descending Kyneton Hill and ascending Stock Hill.  Goes via Mumbleys using a short length of the Aust - Alveston B road, which is sometimes busy. A slightly shorter length of the B road can be used by descending to the west and reascending via Sweetwater Lane. Kyneton Hill is steep, needing braking all the way, but easier to go down than up. 

Views across the Severn from Littleton Pill, the destination. Pasture, ditches and arable, with views from the edges of the Almondsbury Ridge and Old Down across the levels to the river most of the way.

Nempnett Thrubnell - Redhill-Ashton Court- BS9

Longer, but mostly more rural return route, going higher above Redhill, and returning through Ashton Court Park and over the suspension bridge, so avoiding the noisy, smelly Portway, with its sometimes worryingly crowded inadequate shared pavement.

600 m ascent rather than the 300 m of the outbound Barrow Gurney route. A surprise, I thought I had planned a mostly downhill return! The airport is notoriously high.