RFW - Club Routes

Sunny Hunny - 282 km to Hunstanton and back

4/6/2022

This should be on every RFW rider's bucket list, a ride to the seaside and back in a day. It's obviously a big day, with over 282km/175ml covered. A lot is flat, but beware the headwind on the return...

This is pretty much the most direct route, avoiding major roads the vast majority of the time. Target an early start, with fish and chips for lunch in Hunstanton and plenty of new roads. Take some lights in case of delays.

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Go West! (and back to Medbourne)

29/5/2022

Medbourne is close to the club, so this route passes near it, goes West in a clockwise direction and returns for coffee to the Rural Retreats venue.

The loop is about 64 km, with the café coming up at 54 km.

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Rogation Sunday Ride

22/5/2022

We will be riding this route on Rogation Sunday, when traditionally people circumnavigate the boundary of 'your parish'. This gives members a longer club run; a chance to achieve a century ride of 100 miles. This route follows closely the boundary of the old Rockingham Forest, so it is fair to say this is us 'staking our claim' for the area!

The ride will be at a pace to allow people to finish, not too slow, and not too fast. The main group will aim for a c15mph average on the road, and will stick together. There will be longish breaks about 1/3 and 2/3 of the way around the route, at places we usually stop for refreshment, and probably a couple of shorter ones too.

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Wymondham North

15/5/2022

Wymondham gives us a slightly longer ride, with there being two routes. Here are Strava links for the 83km and 101km routes.

Wymondham Windmill Tea Rooms is a lovely café next to the old windmill with outdoor open space and a small copse with a short walking trail.

There's an alternative stop on the larger ride, with the Dairy Barn Café and ice cream parlour being a bright, airy modern café in a country setting.

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Cafés near Oundle

8/5/2022

There are two nice cafés just to the south of Oundle; Kingfisher Café and Boxwood Café. Kingfisher is in the Barnwell Country Park, while Boxwood is behind the Barn Garden Centre one Km further south. Both have nice outdoor and indoor spaces.
Kingfisher has a lovely terrace overlooking a small lake and is usually a family favourite. Find out about it here.
Boxwood is modern and usually full of adults; here's their webpage.

There are a couple of loops from the clubhouse below, one that's 86km long, is on Strava here, and a shorter one of 67km here.

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Cafe Monde - Direct Route

1/5/2022

Here's the direct(ish) route to Café Monde in Church Brampton. It gives a 75km round trip from the clubhouse. Strava link here

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Tour de Leicestershire

10/4/2022

This is a century ride (and a bit) - 180km/112 miles. From the clubhouse we go north around Melton, across to Loughborough and Coalville, before returning via Market Harborough.

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Pennbury Farm - Summer Loop

3/4/2022

This is an 83km loop, with 50km to the coffee stop at Pennbury Farm. It's therefore one for the 9:00 start time.

Here's the route in Strava.

Wistow Cafe Bistro is passed at 45km, and Pennbury Farm at 50km.

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Around Leicester

28/3/2022

This route takes us west, though familiar roads until we track around Leicester, now heading north, then back east through Bradgate Country Park (smooth gravel tracks, but lots of pedestrians in good weather), then home via Tilton and Tugby. All in all, some 125 km and plenty of new/rarely ridden roads for us all to enjoy.

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Ringstead - Water Mill Tearooms

27/3/2022

This is a 72km loop around Kettering, going anti-clockwise with the coffee stop coming up at about 45km. The Water Mill Tearooms is (unsurprisingly) by the River Nene, with outside tables with views over the millrace (as well as inside spaces). The cakes here are good!

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