Cycling Routes

Route Book - Cycling Routes. Explore London, The Thames Valley, Surrey Hills, Kent, the Chilterns and Essex

The London Dynamo Route Book brings together the best road cycling routes from London – built, ridden, and refined by club members over decades of riding. Every route comes with a downloadable GPX file, an interactive map, full elevation profile, and distance data, so you know exactly what you’re taking on before you clip in.

From fast, flat loops designed for high-intensity training to long Surrey Hills epics taking in Box Hill, Ranmore Common, and Leith Hill, there’s a route for every objective and every day on the bike. Routes range from 14km sprint circuits to 100km+ endurance days, with elevation gains from a handful of metres to well over 1,500m – all clearly displayed so you can match the ride to your ambitions. Head south through the Thames Valley for rolling, traffic-light roads, or east into the Kent hills for quiet lanes that feel a world away from the city. North through Hertfordshire and the Chilterns, steady climbs build the kind of endurance that pays off on race day. Essex opens up for big, open roads ideal for nailing your power targets.

Whether you’re building a training block, prepping for a sportive, training for a race or just want an exceptional day in the saddle  – start here.

  • All
  • Annual Events
  • Challenging
  • Chilterns
  • Essex
  • Gravel
  • High Intensity
  • Kent
  • North London & Herts
  • One Way
  • Surrey Hills
  • Thames Valley
  • Essex

Chelmsford Loop

  • 119km
  • 873m
The Chelmsford Loop cycling route offers up a scenic loop from London to Essex beyond Epping Forest.
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  • Gravel

Chartwell Gravel Loop

  • 120km
  • 1,809m
This gravel route takes us a largely off-road route from Hampton Court Palace heading south-east out of Surrey and into Kent where it descends off the north ridge of the Downs and winds its way offroad to Churchill's family home of Chartwell. It then heads through woods of Toys Hill before the return leg back to Surrey. 
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  • Chilterns

Whiteleaf Loop

  • 121.3km
  • 914m
The Whiteleaf Loop cycling route intot he Chilterns heads west out of London via Uxbridge to get further into the the western end of the Chillterns National Landscape. A climb up Whiteleaf Hill sets up the long descent home.
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  • Challenging

Nove Colli di Surrey

  • 122.8km
  • 1,872m
A collect-the-set route through the Surrey Hills with nine significant climbs racking up nearly 1900m of climbing.
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  • Surrey Hills

Frensham Pond Loop

  • 122.9km
  • 1,165m
The Frensham Pond cycling route in the Surrey Hills heads out to the heathland and ponds beyond Guildford. After one large climb up Staple Lane to the Shere Woodlands the route turns away from the hills and begins a rolling route. Looping wide of Guildford, it heads through heathland to the area south of Godalming. From there it takes a loop around the ponds at Frensham.
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  • Challenging

The Kentish Kraken

  • 126km
  • 1,761m
The Kentish Kraken winds its way across two ridges of the Downs (crossing the southern ridge four times!). Climbs include Crockham Hill, Brasted Chart (the steadier but longer north side of Toys Hill), and Ide Hill.
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  • Chilterns

West Wycombe Loop

  • 126.9km
  • 815m
The West Wycombe Loop cycling route heads up the Thames Valley towards Marlow where it then makes a beeline to the edge of the Chilterns for a bit of climbing before the long descent back to London via Henley.
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  • Annual Events

Tour of the Isle of Wight

  • 128.6km
  • 2,094m
The Tour of the Isle of Wight is now a London Dynamo summer tradition. After an early morning ferry from Portsmouth, the route goes anti-clockwise round the island, taking in the chain link ferry at Cowes, the steep climb up to the view point of the Needles and the fast but breezy Military Road.
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  • Chilterns

Aldbury Loop

  • 128.7km
  • 1,277m
The Aldbury Loop cycling route heads north out of Regents Park and Hampstead and skirts south of Watford, out into the countryside and the eastern, Hertfordshire, end of the Chilterns with a loop around Aldbury Common back to London.
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  • One Way

London to Whitstable

  • 129.7km
  • 1,562m
The London to Whitstable one-way cycling route heads south over Crystal Palace, out of London, before the climb up the side of Biggin Hill.
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  • One Way

London to Rye

  • 129.7km
  • 1,401m
The London to Rye one-way cycling route heads out over Crystal Palace and Biggin Hill, into the Kent Hills and beyond, taking a very picturesque route to the coast.
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  • Kent

The Rochester Rouleur

  • 130.1km
  • 1,585m
The Rochester Rouleur cycling route is a scenic rolling out-and-back route to Rochester. After traversing the northern ridge of the Downs it heads east along the eastern end of the old Pilgrims' Way to the coast.
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