Your favourite rest-spot(s)

[alan]

Do you have a favoured or fondly remembered rest place that you use regularly or only once.
You may use it for snacking or resting or admiring the view.
There may be one or several such places.

To start,

Camelford in Cornwall.
It has everything you need,a pub,a greengrocer,a mini supermarket,a park with benches.

[Greenbank]

The bench next to the cricket pitch in Langley Upper Green, Essex

It's on my Putney -> Cambridge DIY Audax and is a useful rest stop at about 70km (and 140km on the way back). There's a bus shelter next to it if the weather is grim.

[rogerzilla]

The Black Lion, High Roding, about 35 miles out on the Dun Run.  They'll fill your water bottle (so you only need to take one) and there's a brightly-lit car park for putting on longs.

[Ian H]

The pub at Hundred House, near Builth Wells.

Camelford in Cornwall.

I once arrived at Camelford utterly exhausted by galeforce headwinds and driving rain - I was on my way to Truro - so I booked in at the Mason's Arms and slept like the dead.

[alan]

The pub at Hundred House, near Builth Wells.

Camelford in Cornwall.

I once arrived at Camelford utterly exhausted by galeforce headwinds and driving rain - I was on my way to Truro - so I booked in at the Mason's Arms and slept like the dead.

The Mason Arms
Spent many hours & many £ drinking & eating there

[border-rider]

The bus shelter just after Penrhyndeudreath on the way back to Dolgellau

I almost always have a doze there on the BCM600

[Hummers]

The Exmoor stop on the Nello Century  Challenge and the El Supremo's 'secret controls' on the Pre-PBP Feast.

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[Treewheeler]

My girlfriends parents house by the banks of the Villaine just south of Rennes.
Port ouvert tous le semaine pour le cyclotourist, voyager du monde et anglais sans domicile...

[Basil]

The death-burger roadside cafe van about 2 miles west of Brecon on the A40.  I always stop for a cup of tea and a chat with the motor cyclists.

[Ian H]

Great Gonerby holds memories of a certain kind.

[mike]

theres a church in furneaux pelham with a great motto on the clock "time flies, mind your business". It's half way round a 3 hour loop I do quite often, so it's a handy place to pause & think while nibbling on some flapjack.

[Treewheeler]

Great Gonerby holds memories of a certain kind.

You can get a cream for Great Gonerbys.
   Hummers has had it before... caught it from eating a Plymouth oyster in 1986

[nicknack]

Here:

Whitstable harbour. A nice easy 18 miles from home and a fresh fish market that does superb rollmops.

[JT]

The bench outside the church in the village of Medbourne (Leicestershire) is a nice place to munch down a flap jack and a have a quick rest before tackling Nevill Holt.

But my favourite is this bridge at Blatherwycke (near Oundle):

[tonyh]

The end of the west pier at West Bay... having suddenly arrived at all that sea and spacious coast.

And anywhere that turns up for that secluded, essential, blissful 15-minute sleep.

[Jakob]

My bed.

[julianbramley]

Rest!?

[Deano]

The cafe at the top of Birk Brow does a good cup of tea and a cake. 

[CathH]

The John of Gaunt pub just by Kings Somborne.   Last year I went cycling with my sister a lot and we spent quite some time in there drinking Baileys and munching chips during the seemingly endless Summer evenings.