Most folks won't know of Radnor, the quietest of three old counties that make up Powys, the emptiest county in Wales, it nestles up against Herefordshire, itself the most rural county in England. Almost a quarter of Radnorshire is moorland. Hidden from view, as drivers edge through the valleys to the sea, the high moorlands have an altogether different feel; remote and largely untouched by the 20th century, let alone the 21st!
Twm Tobbaccos Grave, the well of Kilvert's old scholar, drovers' rest up stops and tracks; Hergest Ridge, not a lot has changed, just imperceptably edging back to nature, the hill farms long fallow. Man's touch blurred by wind and water.

The rock is hard the soil thin, these tracks work all the year round. No need for a full sus bike, just good legs and lungs Not the worn rubble roads of the english parks, this patch just escaped being designated a welsh national park back in the sixties, and some say it's better for it, certainly quieter.
To escape the stresses of the modern world, albeit for the briefest of times, this is the place.

There are twenty three downloadable routes from four different starting points, for GPs users also downloadable as tracklogs files.
There's full details of local hostelries, even down to the real ale!
Home of the Radnor RoughRide, Wales's most offroad mtb enduro, and the Autumn Epic, Britains' top rated Cycle Sportif. If we were near anywhere we'd be famous! Three and half hours from London via Gloucester.

www.roughrides.co.uk