Mileages and maps: Gowerton to Bridgwater

Day	Where	Miles	Ascent (m)	Hilliness %	mph
Mon	Gowerton to Port Eynon	38	603	160%	10
Tues	Port Eynon to Monknash	63	1091	172%	10
Weds	Monknash to Chepstow	80	876	110%	11.3
Thurs	Chepstow to west of Bristol	45	659	146%	10.1
Fri	west of Bristol to Bridgwater	64	621	97%	10.6
	Total / average	290	3,850	133%	10.5

Confirming that the first couple of days were quite hilly.   I haven't got a measure for "Raininess factor", but I think my trips this year would score highly on that as well.   There is a lesson to learn from this: never go on a cycling tour during a drought.

My entire trip round the Welsh coastline took 947 miles and 17,850 metres of climbing.  Surprisingly, that makes it more hilly than Scotland (4,510 miles and 75,600m ascent).  The Isle of Man was more hilly still, but only 120 miles and 2,596m ascent.

England is the least hilly by a long way, so far ... but there are hills to look forward to in the south west.

Maps

Apologies that the blue line of my track seems to be the same colour as some of the cycle routes on OpenCycleMap.

Day 1: Gowerton to Port Eynon

(the mileage scale seems to include my train journey here)

Day 2: Port Eynon to Monknash

Day 3: Monknash to Chepstow

Day 4: Chepstow to W. Bristol

Day 5: w Bristol to Bridgwater

(elevation chart must have been affected by changing air pressure through the day)