Bampton in Devon

On a bicycle, you can explore at your leisure the lanes, villages, and river valleys, and from higher points enjoy extensive rural views.

From Bampton, two cycle routes have been prepared and details can be found in a leaflet 'Cycling in Mid Devon' (see the Mid-Devon Tourism web-site).

Both these circular routes take you along river valleys:

1. The Exe Valley

A 16 mile tour taking a scenic route between Bampton and Tiverton with good views and wonderful countryside - about half the route follows the River Exe down a wooded valley. There are some steep climbs mixed with some gentle stretches.

2. The Lowman Valley

This is a longer route of some 23 miles, exploring many lanes and picturesque villages and hamlets, again between Tiverton and Bampton (actually Huntsham which is only a mile or two from the town). There is plenty of scope for variety if you have your O.S. map with you.

3. West Country Way

Bampton is on this cycle route which is a 250 mile one from Padstow to Bath and Bristol.

4. Cycling on Exmoor

There are various organisations to help you organise a cycling holiday or to hire you cycles. They can organise accomodation, and the safe transfer of luggage.

Suggested maps can be found elsewhere on this site.

Tour of Britain 2009 - passes through Bampton

Thursday 17th September 2009 - Bampton turns out in force to cheer the cyclist throuh