Festival Way – Staple Hill Tunnel loop from Nailsea and Backwell

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Festival Way – Staple Hill Tunnel loop from Nailsea and Backwell

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4.5

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Festival Way – Staple Hill Tunnel loop from Nailsea and Backwell

03:10

53.3km

270m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 15, 2026

Tips

Includes movable bridges

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After 14.8 km for 27 m

After 15.3 km for 58 m

After 38.9 km for 24 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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3.39 km

Festival Way

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Lovely, traffic-free way to connect Long Ashton to Backwell and it's endless lanes.

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9.28 km

Festival Way

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Butterfly Junction

Nature Reserve

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Railway Path to Bath

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Watch out for hippies on bikes. They are as bad as cyclists in London.

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22.9 km

Staple Hill Tunnel

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Staple Hill tunnel is a disused railway tunnel that was originally part of the Midland Railway's Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line, which connected Bristol and Bath. The tunnel runs for …

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24.4 km

Mangotsfield Railway Station (disused)

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Mangotsfield railway station has not served as a station since 1966. Opened in 1845, the small station was a stop on the Bristol to Birmingham route. Nowadays, it's used as …

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24.5 km

Old Railway Station Ruins

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A nostalgic ride so g some old railway lines which is so good when you ride along an old station platform or under an old bridge that once had locomotives …

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26.6 km

Warmley Waiting Room Cafe

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Perhaps the quaintest little coffee stop in the whole of England. This sweet little cafe is placed inside an old railway station along the Bristol & Bath Railway path. There …

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42.0 km

Ashton Court Greenway

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Brilliant new bit of cyclepath across Ashton Court from the university buildings to the wide gravel track up to the gate at the southern end. Very wide and easy gravel, …

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