Two Tunnels Shared Path

A new shared path for Bath and North East Somerset

Links

Also see our Supporters List

King Bladud's Pigs

They raised over £200,000 for the project. Here's their Web Site 

Connect 2

Connect2  - Sustrans initiative to attract lottery funding for a nationwide range of linking paths. Here's a direct link to the Two Tunnels project's page from Sustrans  and its Connect2 page .

Your use of shared paths

Think about other people, and if you're on a cycle, avoid passing others at speed. The Two Tunnels route is used by visual or hearing impaired people - avoid assuming that someone has heard or seen your approach.

Be Path Wise : resource on shared use paths from Bath and North East Somerset Council.

Other shared use paths

Colliers Way 

The web site for the shared use route along NCN 24 from Dundas to Frome. The Two Tunnels route will join this at Midford.

Frome's missing link 

One of the Two Tunnels route's connecting links. If you've cycled to Frome you'll know that the Radstock to Frome route joins the road system about a couple of miles short of the town. You'll also know that Frome more than repays a visit or three. Please support the project to bring the path into the town. Frome can do this, but it can bring this about more quickly with some help from others.

Strawberry Line  including a new Café 

A new path on the route of the railway from Yatton in the direction of Cheddar and Wells. Incomplete as yet, the route, originally designated a nature reserve, now includes an improved shared-use path as well. The start at Yatton is accessible by rail and you can cycle as far as Winscombe. The route includes a (short) tunnel, which will incorporate low level LED lighting of the sort envisaged for our tunnels. Do pay their path a visit. They have a support group and, to start the walk from Yatton, a new community cafe has opened in the station buildings, though it doesn't do bacon rolls. UPDATE: the cafe does bacon rolls, see their web site for more: Strawberry Line Cafe.

Great Northern Trail 

Close to Bradford, Yorkshire and now open in part. The story of its development repays investigation.

Ystwyth Trail 

Emerging route from Aberystwyth to Tregaron, a dramatic route through remote and beautiful countryside.

Local Interest

Bath in Time 

Created to improve awareness, understanding and appreciation of Bath and its environs. Over 5,500 historic images from public and private collections available to view online, with high quality copies available to order, with delivery typically within 24 hours.

The Forgotten Relics  web site ...

... has a gallery of images from Combe Down Tunnel 

Two Tunnels Path 

Bath and North East Somerset Council's page on our project.

Colliers Way 

Information on the NCN 24 between Dundas and Frome. A large amount of this route is now explorable in one form or another, and there's plenty to visit along the way. You can even cycle from Bath to Frome and then return to Bath by train - even on a Sunday - but check train times first as the service is irregular.

Mendip Main Line Project 

Managing the emerging visitor attraction at Midsomer Norton Station, their work has already resulted in the reappearance of a cameo portrayal of the line as approached via Charlton Road.

Radstock Museum 

Vibrant local history museum. Even better, it has a cafe attached. Ginger cake highly recommended ...

Radstock and Midsomer Norton's '5 Arches' Connect2 project

'Youtube' video from the route and more info (from B&NES)

Shillingstone Station Project 

Away from the local area as it's to be found many miles south of Bath, on the southern section of the S&D line, visiting this restoration project provides a useful reminder of just how many miles long the line was.

Proud of Twerton 

Resource site for Twerton, suburb of Bath.

Local Businesses

Avon Valley Cyclery 

Beneath the station

Bike It, Radstock 

Bath doesn't have the monopoly of local bike shops, you'll find 'Bike It' half way along the Collier's Way at Radstock.

John's Bikes Bath 

Walcot Street ..

Laurel Farm 

Eco holiday cottage alongside a base for a multitude of community activities. Yes it's a climb from NCN 24 and yes it's worth it!

'The Raven' 

Actually, 'Two Tunnels HQ'. It's appropriately nineteenth century to have a public house as a campaign headquarters. Many great engineering projects and public works (and more than a few white elephants) were kickstarted as a result of meetings in the public houses and hotels of the day. However, we have no intention of resurrecting one of the latter! If you're in central Bath and you need one of our leaflets, and all else has failed, you'll find a stock here ...

Our local cycle campaign group

Bath Cycling Campaign 

Campaign group working to improve facilities for people who cycle in Bath. The two tunnels project was formed partly as a spin off from the Bath Cycling Campaign, who sent an intrepid group of eight the length of what would be named the Two Tunnels path in May 1995.

Local (and not so local) campaigning: unrelated to the 'Two Tunnels'

Bath Cornmarket, Walcot 

One of Bath's neglected gems, and currently more or less invisible, this building has the potential to greatly contribute to its local environment and economy - a bit like the 'Two Tunnels' route ...

Cleveland Baths 

Support the return to use of an unlikely survival - Bath's Georgian open air bathing pool

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