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Nice cafe to the side!!

Very nice route!

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The easier ascent of Dunkery Beacon

Just remember if cycling to bring £1 for the toll.

Top 100 climbs 5 Dunkery Beacon This corner of Exmoor is hill-climbing heaven, with a pleathora of nasty roads to grind up and fly down. It's a job to single out one climb that sets itself apart from all the others, but the road heading away from Luccombe up to the Beacon is a beast. Leave the crossroads and head into thick forest. Ramping up straight away at 17% and winding across a steep cattle grid, the road heads upwards under the trees. With the opening stretch over, your legs will already be burning by the time the gradient affords you a brief rest. And then it climbs again - if you thought the first part was a trial, think again. A perfect stretch of unrelenting 17% gradient cuts its way through the gorse, turning left then right, steeper at each turn, before delivering you to the finale. Ahead, the road winds like a streamer dropped from a tall building, kinking left and right, left and right, steep all the way. You'll finish, consumed by fatigue, adjacent to a small stone car park.

Torre Cider Farm is a farm shop and café in the pretty village of Torre Somerset. The café serves great food all day and the shop sells local produce and snacks as well as cider. They also have glamping on site so you could make this a base for Exmoor and northern Somerset bike rides. Closed on Tuesday and open from 9:30 till 17:00 every other day. late opening until 20:00 on Sat. Food served daily until 15:00 or 19:30 on Sat.

The railway makes a fun challenge ride. Friends or family members can ride the train and you can race on the bike there and back with café stop in the middle.

Minehead station is the northern terminus of the West Somerset heritage railway. The railway runs from here south along the coast to Watchet and then south down the edge of the Quantock Hills to Bishops Lydeard near Taunton. There are regular steam and heritage diesel trains running throughout the year but check the website for timings. west-somerset-railway.co.uk