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 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.
The Heathrow Airport Loop is the perfect setting for a high-tempo time trial with a relatively unimpeded flat loop around the airport.
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.
The Chelmsford Loop cycling route offers up a scenic loop from London to Essex beyond Epping Forest.
Following the same alternative route out of London as the Bayley Hill Loop but this time going on to Shoreham for a wider circuit back to London.
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.