Coasting along the lanes around Meon Springs and down the Meon Valley Trail was a special highlight of our Hampshire break, though, and this year we're keen to explore the new Shipwrights Way.

But it was a different story once we had freewheeled down a long, leafy lane to the Meon Valley Trail. The 10-mile disused railway track between the lovely village of West Meon and Knowle has been ...