This London to Cambridge one-way cycling route is fast, fairly flat, ride leaving London via the City, through Epping Forest before heading into the stunning countryside of rural Essex and Cambridgeshire.
Starting point: Tate Britain, Vauxhall Bridge, London.
Suggested coffee stop: Vintage Style Living, Thaxted (73 km)
Suggested lunch stop: The Granta, Cambridge
Return by train to St. Pancras, Kings Cross or Liverpool Street, London.
The Surrey Trails & Hills gravel route heads down to the Box Hill area for a loop before continuing on to Ranmore Common, White Downs and Effingham Forest.
The Ashdown Forest Loop is a long day in the saddle racking up well over 2000 metres of climbing. It is based on the Hell of the Ashdown sportive but with legs to and from London.
The Ferny Hill Farm Loop cycling route climbs steadily up from Regents Park through Belsize Park, Hampstead and other leafy suburbs before heading into the green belt, with some relatively fast straight roads, before turning back towards London over Muswell Hill, down through Highgate and back to the park.
This long but relatively flat one-way cycling route leaves London via the City, skirting the top of East London and heading straight through Epping Forest and the wider northern Essex countryside, before ultimately reaching the ‘Constable Country’ of Dedham Vale National Landscape and the Stour Estuary at the Suffolk border.
This fast-flowing Leith Hill Circuit cycling route starts in Hampton Court before heading to Shere via Newlands Corner, before heading further south. It turns the corner in Leith Hill Wood before climbing Leith Hill from the south. After ascending to Ranmore common the route heads back to base.
Rolling hills without any steep climbs are the order of the day for this HITR route.