{"id":20199,"date":"2018-09-28T19:19:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:44:14","slug":"bowood-gardens-bike-tour-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/bowood-gardens-bike-tour-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Bowood House and Gardens: a bike tour into the south west of England"},"content":{"rendered":"

A slow journey, in contact with the nature, far away from the touristic and chaotic England. We cross by bike the green countryside of Wiltshire (south-west of England) until the house and garden of Bowood. Discovering animals and art, trees and ancient architectures, games and waterfalls. Are you ready to leave?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

When we think about England, we image green heaps of grass, an ancient stone house completely covered by ivy like in a fairy tale, gardens and tunnels between the leafs to cross by feet. Our first adventure by bike in the Wiltshire<\/strong>, a green region with hills and lakes in the south west of England, has exactly this atmosphere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We start by bike from Chippenham<\/strong>, a little village in the countryside of Wiltshire<\/strong>, 150 km in the south-west of London. The destination is Bowood, an ancient residence in the countryside with the interiors of Robert Adam and a spectacular garden projected by the architect Lancelot \u201cCapability\u201d Brown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bike tour from\u00a0<\/span>Chippenham to Bowood\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n
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Cycle track from Cippenham to Bowood, picture of Silvia Ombellini<\/div><\/div>\n

We cross the calm streets of Chippenham<\/strong> until the green park that crosses the village along the river Avon. We ride along the banks of the river observing the swans and the gooses swimming in the calm water of the river. We pass close to a big playground and we continue on the cycle track that crosses the park of Chippenham. Later, we take the cycle track n. 403, that is part of the English national network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our trail is part of the network of cycle and pedestrian tracks<\/strong> at a national level in the entire England. More than 14.000 trails are safety and without traffic and cross from north to south the whole country connecting villages and cities. Similar totems indicate us the right direction and the distance to reach other places. At this link<\/a> it is possible to have a look to the entire network of cycle journey in England.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A totem on the cycle track, picture of Silvia Ombellini<\/div><\/div>\n

By riding we move fast from Chippenham and after few minutes we are covered by a rural landscape and intense green. Grazing land scattered with sheeps, cows and horses, and some farms. The cycle track is quite flat, in part paved, in part not, and on the sides it\u00a0<\/span>hosts trees, blackberry<\/strong> bushes and shrubs of every types. Sometimes the kinds decide to do a pause to pick the most mature and sweet blackberries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t