Start/Finish: Lower Wyche car park, SO770441 Total distance 14.1km (8.7 miles) Time 90 minutes to 3 hours Maps Ordnance Survey OL 190 Malvern Hills and Bredon Hill Summary There’s a couple of stiff climbs on this ride, mostly on well surfaced trails and farm track. Be careful with the directions as it gets fi ddly when you turn back on yourself. Park up at Lower Wyche and head to the cutting along the road, where you’ll find a clearly signposted bridleway, which contours along the eastern edge of the hill. Follow this, sticking to the leveller paths, until you reach a hairpin junction above some houses. Begin the climb up to Perseverance Hill, which takes you through cattle gates and out of the woodland onto open hillside. Descend sharply between two gates, then pick up the path, which switchbacks briefly before bearing left to descend towards the road. Take a sharp right at the crossroads at the bottom, emerging onto tarmac and following fi rst the minor road and then the A449 to the car parks at British Camp. Take the left of two bridleways to loop round below the hill, turning sharply back on yourself at the route’s southerly tip to travel back to Little Malvern and then back onto bridleway after retracing your steps on the road. Pass your initial exit point and continue to access a slightly easier climb; this is a long pull that crosses the previous route, but you should fi nd yourself at the top with perseverance. Bear right at the edge of the trees, descending gentle singletrack all the way back down to the Wyche cutting before hopping back on the road to get back to the car park.by ocoutts
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