London to Canterbury on the Thames path pilgrimage route (aborted in Kent).
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London to Canterbury on the Thames path pilgrimage route (aborted in Kent).
London - Brighton
This is a great ride, all the better because you can roll our of your door and head to Richmond Park where the route starts without any need for public transport.
The route is joining up of the Thames Path going west, the Downs Link Path and a short section of South Downs Way. Apart from having to scale the north and south downs the trail is flat and fast.
The Ridgeway
119km 8h55m Tring to Swindon
Technical issues meant that Dan and I were late onto the trail, around 9:30. We joined the path at Tring after a short train journey from Euston. The day is overcast and cool, perfect.
The path departure point, near the Ivenhoe Beacon, is a geographical coming together of the Icknield Way, the Ridgeway, the Chilterns Way and the Grand Union Canal; so much opportunity for adventure from this little train station.
The Ridgeway
The Icknield Way
110km 7h55m - Ivenhoe Beacon to Great Chesterford.
The Icknield Way is a collection of paths and roads which follow the course of a pre-historic trading route between Wiltshire and Norfolk. The exact route of the ancient way is disputed and the modern trail(s) are approximations of the ancient road in places. The section between the Ivenhoe Beacon and Great Chesterford, south of Cambridge is largely low-lying, running north east from the edge of London near Hemel Hempstead and skirting the southern edge of Cambridge before heading into Norfolk.
The Icknield Way (images).
Today I know there is nothing beyond the farthest of far ridges except a sign-post to unknown places. The end is in the means - in the sight of that beautiful long straight line of the Downs in which a curve is latent - in the houses we shall never enter, with their dark secret windows and quiet hearth smoke, or their ruins friendly only to elders and nettles - in the people passing whom we shall never know thought we may love them.
Edward Thomas, The Icknield Way, 1913.
South Downs Way
145km 10h43m - Winchester to Newhaven.
I cross the Thames in the dark, the 6:30am train from Waterloo is just over an hour and usually has other cyclists and walkers on their way to Winchester, the staging point for the South Downs Way route(s). An 5000 year old, 100 mile route following the downlands along the south coast between Winchester and Eastbourne.
South Downs Way
Most of us live in a world where more and more places and things are signposted, labelled, and officially ‘interpreted’. There is something about all this that is turning the reality of things into virtual reality. It is the reason why walking, cycling and swimming will always be subversive activities. They allow us to regain a sense of what is old and wild in these islands, by getting off the beaten track and breaking free of the official version of things.
Roger Deakin, Water Log, 1999.