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Powick Cycle and Foot Bridge – The Cob House Countryside Park loop from Suckley

Powick Cycle and Foot Bridge – The Cob House Countryside Park loop from Suckley

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Powick Cycle and Foot Bridge – The Cob House Countryside Park loop from Suckley

02:04

43.6km

390m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 26, 2026

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Leigh Brook

Highlight • River

The Leigh Brook (pronounced Lie locally), is a fine small river that drains the hills just to the north of the Malverns and flows down to meet the Teme to the west of Worcester.

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3.55 km

The Knapp & Papermill Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural

The trail around the Knapp and Papermill starts in an apple orchard with old lichen-encrusted trees that attract nuthatches and green woodpeckers. In autumn and early winter visitors should keep an eye out for butterflies such as red admiral and peacock or birds like fieldfare and redwing feasting on the fallen fruit.

The Leigh Brook has cut a winding valley with steep woodlands and rich meadows. Look for grey wagtails and dippers on the brook and, during the winter months, listen for flocks of long-tailed tits and siskins in the brook-side alders. Dragonflies and damselflies thrive on the brook during spring and summer but only the luckiest of visitors may catch sight of an otter. The trail takes visitors along the brook, around meadows and through woodland.

Big Meadow is a hay meadow with flowers such as knapweed, ox-eye daisy and yellow rattle together with a scattering of green-winged and common spotted orchids. Papermill Meadow is an old pasture on slightly more acid soil. This meadow is a favourite hunting ground for buzzards that breed in the valley. The much smaller Tor Meadow has orchids and cowslips. Butterflies frequent all three meadows and more than 30 species have been recorded here including common and holly blue, brimstone, purple hairstreak and white admiral. Each meadow is maintained by hay cutting and/or grazing.

Woodland occupies about half the reserve and some areas are managed by coppicing. This traditional method of cutting down young stems to near ground level on a rotation ensures that trees never die and there is always a range of habitats for wildlife at different stages of re-growth. Coppicing helps to encourage the marvellous carpet of bluebells and other wildflowers (yellow archangel, stitchwort and wild garlic) that can be seen each spring. Wild service trees grow in profusion here along with both small and large-leaved lime as well as oaks and hazels. Dormice are encouraged through the provision of nest boxes, as are many species of birds and bats. The reserve is important for bats and 11 of the UK’s 17 regular breeding species are found here.

Source: worcswildlifetrust.org.uk

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14.8 km

Powick Cycle and Foot Bridge

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This bridge is a part of NCN 46, which connects the village of Powick and Old Worcester Bridge, thereby leading to an alleged place where Battle of Worcester took place in 1651, and start of the Monarch's Way

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16.8 km

Diglis Weir and Worcester Riverside Path

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Classic and relaxing chilled ride along the River Severn in Worcester. Keep your speed down, share the path with others... and just enjoy the scenery.

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