Road route recommendations - Cotwolds or Suffolk :)
Road route recommendations - Cotwolds or Suffolk :)
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Zippee

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14,121 posts

263 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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Hi all,
Looking for a recommendation for a decent road route (circa 55 miles give or take) either in the Eastern Cotswold area or Suffolk way (Poss round Thetford way). Ideally as few main A roads as poss as wanting something quite scenic and reasonably traffic light for a group of 4 of us.
I know a lot of you have some good strava type routes saved so hoping you may be able to help.
Areas given aren't set in stone but needs to be a max of an hour and a half drive from Bedford as we want something a little different to the local roads.

Usget

5,426 posts

240 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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What counts as Eastern Cotswolds? Stow on the Wold/Bourton kind of way?

If it's that, I've got a great route, a bit longer than 55 miles (maybe 70?) - I'll post it later.

Zippee

Original Poster:

14,121 posts

263 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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Usget said:
What counts as Eastern Cotswolds? Stow on the Wold/Bourton kind of way?

If it's that, I've got a great route, a bit longer than 55 miles (maybe 70?) - I'll post it later.
That would be perfect smile One of my favourite areas as well....

Usget

5,426 posts

240 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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See if this works - I don't know if they're publicly available? Otherwise add me on Strava (Russell Gowers) and I'll share it with you.

https://www.strava.com/routes/9346730

It starts and finishes from my road, but obviously you could cut out the bit which goes into the middle of Cheltenham and start from either Burford or Stow-on-the-Wold. If you wanted to shorten it and avoid Cheltenham you could go from Winchcombe down Campden Lane to Guiting Power.

A mate of mine did two laps of this last weekend as part of some charity challenge, so I haven't actually ridden it myself just yet, but I know 50% of these roads and they're excellent. I'm going to give it a go on Saturday I think.

Edited by Usget on Wednesday 28th June 18:36

Zippee

Original Poster:

14,121 posts

263 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Thankyou so much for that. I'll have a proper look at the weekend as it only gives me limited views without fully logging into strava.