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Drop down the hill a short way from the church, to the National Trust entrance - tea rooms, loo, lovely walk and they even have bike locks to lend.

A 7-mile (11km), mainly traffic free, route linking Bovey Tracey to Moretonhampstead. It follows the line of the old railway, which was closed to passengers in 1959.

Sticklepath stores and cafe. You can sit outside with your bike and watch the world go by. Home made cakes were ridiculously cheap, too, and happy to top up water bottles 🙂

Picturesque and well worth including on a tour.

Breakfast...Full English

Great climb touching 20% you earn the view from the top

A beautiful section of route 27 Granite Way where the trail opens up as you pass across the Meldon Viaduct. Views across show the undulating hills of the highest area within Dartmoor National park where High Willhays and Yes Tor are situated.

Yes its a tad on the pricey side, but a good place to stop, indoor cycle rack, food quality always good.

Excellent pizza and undercover, outdoor seating at the Castle Inn! No issues taking our bikes into the garden.

Plenty of good shops for food. Stop at the Fat Mouse Dairy for ice cream

A hell of a climb, stop in Poudsgate for a well deserved pint after

Went in on a cycle tour at the end of a long day - no pasta on the menu, no pump to check tyre pressures, no oil can to lube the chain, no help refilling water bottles. It's a bike themed cafe with high prices, but that's all.

Nice little town with an old clapper bridge as the footpath. Lovely little river too.

Good view of the dam from here

Stay at Lydgate house b&b or the east dart hotel

Great place to stop for a picnic or photo shoot

One of the best cycling cafes in Devon for riding out onto Dartmoor, Cafe 3 Sixty has secure indoor bike parking and a really extensive tasty menu. Coffee and cake or something more substantial, their friendly staff are quick and efficient so you'll be fuelled up in no time. A must visit for cyclists passing through Bovey Tracey! https://www.cafe3sixty.co.uk/

From the River Dart, over the cattle grid and straight up the ramp of tarmac, what the Dartmeet climb lacks in length at 0.6 miles (1km), it more than makes up in gradient! The climb averages 11%, though measures 15% in some places. The view of Sharp Tor is worth it at the top though, on a good day. The climb is listed in Simon Warren's '100 Greatest Cycling Climbs'. Good luck!

Top 100 Climbs 9 Haytor Vale Rising up the eastern side of Dartmoor is the long climb to Haytor Rocks. Beginning just outside Bovery Tracey, the B3387 forks left at Five Wyches Cross. Rising up to 12%, the rough lower slopes are by and large tree-covered, but as you pass the Edgemoor Hotel you emerge from under the protection of the woods. Here the gradient steadies, althoughnot enough for you to relax. Ullacombe Farm signals the end of the easier stuff and the road bends left, passing over a cattle grid, and rising steeply into the national park. It's really hard going through a small wooded section, and then it eases once more before the hardest stretc. A long, tough grind brings you out onto open moorland, where you climb gently towards and past the Haytor Visitor Centre - the base for walkers and climbers visiting the giant granite outcrop that towers above your final strength-sapping Push to the summit.

Fantastic section of road heading up from Dunsford in the Teign Valley, twisting between the trees, or as a descent from Moretonhampstead back towards Exeter.