Description
Miners Mountain Bike Trail is a free, council-run bike facility inside Bedworth's Miners' Welfare Park, with a pump track and three graded trails: a green, a blue and a red. The trails are named Charity, Newdigate, Hawkesbury and Woodlands, after coal pits that once worked this ground.
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The Trails
- Charity Pump Track: a small circular pump track with rollers and berms.
- Newdigate Trail (Green): a short, flat, wide, family-friendly trail with no challenging obstacles, suitable for most bikes including disability bikes and hybrids.
- Hawkesbury Trail (Blue): singletrack with small root and rock obstacles, rollers and berms, and occasional steeper sections. A mountain or hybrid bike and some off-road experience are recommended.
- Woodlands Trail (Red): mostly singletrack with technical sections, boardwalks, berms, rocks, steps, drop-offs and cambers. For proficient off-road riders on a full mountain bike.
Facilities
- Car park: Miners Welfare Park Car Park, 45 spaces including 5 disabled bays, height restriction 2.0m. Pay and display Monday to Friday (free for the first 3 hours with a ticket), free evenings and weekends.
- Toilets: available within the park during daylight hours, at the rear of the Bedworth United Football stand and at the Mayor's Cafe and Leisure Centre during their opening hours.
- Cafe: the Mayor's Cafe, a community cafe inside the park, open daily.
Getting Here
- The main car park is off Sergeant Simon Valentine Way, Bedworth, CV12 8JT.
- The park's main address and postcode are also given as Rye Piece Ringway, Bedworth, CV12 8JT.
- Bedworth town centre and railway station are both within walking distance, so the trails are reachable without a car.
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