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Porlock Hill

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    Best Road Cycling Rides to Porlock Hill

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    1. Porlock Hill Climb – Simonsbath Village loop from Barbrook

    61.3km

    03:36

    1,420m

    1,420m

    Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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    June 20, 2019

    Very Steep! (1 in 4)

      March 26, 2023

      Top 100 Climbs 4 Porlock
      As the road climbs out of Porlock, heading west towards Lynmouth, you see the warning sign, gradient 1-in-4 uphill! This isn't for the faint hearted. Pass the sign, easing left and there in front of you rising like a skyscraper, is the fearsome 1-in-4 right hand bend. Wrench your bike into the darkness under the trees and grind along more of the same gradient to the next bend, this time a left-hander and steeper, nigh on vertical at it's apex, where you are forced to the centre of the road in order to keep momentum. It banks right, now just at 1-in-5, and the air is filled with the stench of burning clutches from the vehicles as they struggle past. A false summit marks the end of the back-breaking lower slopes, and now a much more manageable gradient takes you further up the ridge. After another brow in the road there's one final hard stretch to go before you can stop to admire the view of the coast in the distance below.

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        Distance 5.49 km

        Uphill 390 m

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        Location: Porlock, West Somerset District, Somerset, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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