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Sandown to Newport Cycle Path – Quarr Abbey loop from Ryde Esplanade

Sandown to Newport Cycle Path – Quarr Abbey loop from Ryde Esplanade

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Sandown to Newport Cycle Path – Quarr Abbey loop from Ryde Esplanade

02:05

34.8km

350m

Gravel riding

Moderate gravel ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 23, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 20.3 km for 95 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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5.20 km

The Cow Shed – Wight Milk

Highlight • Cafe

Open 24 hours with cash & card payments - full of a selection of items, eggs, ice creams, milkshakes & cold drinks. They have made amazing flapjacks in the past …

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8.24 km

Combley Great Wood

Forest

15.0 km

Sandown to Newport Cycle Path

Highlight • Cycleway

The Sandown to Newport cyclepath is built along the line of a former railway line, and it is the longest cycle path on the Isle of Wight. The route is …

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19.0 km

Red Squirrel Trail – Merstone Station

Highlight • Cycleway

Lovely off road cycle path. Hired an 'adventure' bike from Isle of Wight cycles in Yarmouth, basically a road bike with slightly fatter tyres that helped with the cinder trails. …

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22.7 km

River Medina

Highlight • River

Nice gravel cycle path takes you from Newport town along the medina to the harbour and onto the folly inn at east Cowes

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23.7 km

Paddle Steamer Shipwreck at Newport Harbour

Highlight • Other

Across the Old Mill Pond you get a great view of the PS Ryde. Now little more than a rusting hulk, in her heyday she was a paddle steamer acting …

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26.1 km

Brick Archway on the Wootton Disused Railway Line

Highlight (Segment) • Bridge

Heading from Newport this track takes you along the old railway route finishing at Wootton Steam railway. Be careful about half way as the trail involves crossing a road.

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30.9 km

Quarr Abbey

Highlight • Historical Site

A singletrack but you can ride it on a road bike.
Worth seeing, very unusual architecture

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31.8 km

Quarr Wood

Forest

34.5 km

Ryde Pier

Highlight • Structure

Paul McCartney recently confirmed what we all already ‘knew’ … the Beatles hit Ticket To Ride was inspired by a trip to Ryde made by Macca and John Lennon in …

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34.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

13.4 km

8.16 km

6.28 km

3.80 km

2.35 km

683 m

118 m

Surfaces

20.1 km

7.33 km

5.81 km

1.06 km

279 m

258 m

Elevation

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Highest point (110 m)

Lowest point (0 m)

Weather

Thursday 7 May

17°C

11°C

21 %

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Sandown to Newport Cycle Path – Quarr Abbey loop from Ryde Esplanade

The Cow Shed – Wight Milk

Sandown to Newport Cycle Path

Red Squirrel Trail – Merstone Station

River Medina

Paddle Steamer Shipwreck at Newport Harbour

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Quarr Abbey

Ryde Pier

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