CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Bridport it runs 308 km to Bridport; allow about 5 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point, Stonehenge and Associated Monuments and back through Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point. The line favours views over speed.
The cliffs between Lyme Regis and West Bay are falling into the sea, and that is precisely why people come. This stretch of the Dorset coast is part of the Jurassic Coast, England's first natural World Heritage Site, and its soft clay and limestone cliffs constantly release fossils from the Jurassic seas of around two hundred million years ago. Ammonites, belemnites and the bones of marine reptiles wash out onto the beaches after every storm, and at Charmouth you will see families combing the shingle with hammers and bags at low tide.
Read the complete Lyme Regis to West Bay write-up.
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Lyme Regis to West Bay is where the day begins. Next is Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point.
This is where the geology lesson becomes a spectacle: Lulworth Cove, an almost perfect circle bitten out of soft clays behind a narrow gap in the harder limestone, and Durdle Door just to the west, an arch of Portland stone standing in clear green water. The Lulworth Crumple, where the rock layers have been bent nearly vertical by the same forces that raised the Alps, is visible at Stair Hole.
Read the complete Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point write-up.
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Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stonehenge and Associated Monuments.
Stonehenge looks smaller than people expect and stranger than the photographs, a ring of grey stones standing alone on a swell of chalk grassland with the sky pressing down. It sits on Salisbury Plain, a high, open expanse of downland that was a holy landscape long before the stones. The monument went through phases from about 3000 BC, with the great sarsen blocks raised around 2500 BC, hauled, it seems, from the Marlborough Downs some thirty kilometres to the north. The smaller bluestones came from the Preseli Hills in west Wales, about two hundred kilometres away, which remains one of the most astonishing facts in European prehistory.
Read the complete Stonehenge and Associated Monuments write-up.
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about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Stonehenge and Associated Monuments. Next is back through Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point, late in the day. Next is Lyme Regis to West Bay.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lyme Regis to West Bay write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Lyme Regis to West Bay. That is the ride.
Lyme Regis to West Bay → Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point → Stonehenge and Associated Monuments is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stonehenge and Associated Monuments → back through Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bowleaze Cove to Peveril Point → Lyme Regis to West Bay is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.