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.

Stoke Bishop BS9 to Nempnett Thrubwell

Direct rural route to Nempnett Thrubwell. Uses the Portway which is flat, but the shared cycle path can be unpleasant with oncoming riders, and generally smelly. After that up Blackmoor Lane, along the shared pavement and pick up NCN 33 through the bottom of Ashton Court Park, then through Long Ashton, Wild Country Lane and Hobbs Lane. Short walk up the A38 pavement to the second large modern island, which has reasonable sight lines and cross over to reach Dial Lane, Felton. Thence properly rural.

BS9 to Claverham Drove circular via Gordano Valley Backwell Church & Ashton Court

Circular route down the Gordano Valley, out onto the North Somerset levels and back  through rhine-crossed moorland, up past Backwell Church, then through Long Ashton to Ashton Court park and over the suspension bridge to cross the Downs.

Stoke Bishop - Failand Heights Circular return via Beaumont Hill, Ashton Court and Suspension Bridge

Pleasant circular morning route up to the Failand Heights, passing St George's Flower Bank, Lower Failand and Failand, descending Beaumont Hill to return through Long Ashton and the Ashton Court Estate.