Category: W - RFW

Go West! (to Kibworth/Tur Langton)

12/11/2023

This route goes to one of our favorite cafes, Mint and Ginger in Tur Langton, and it passes Windmill Farm Café just outside Kibworth too. It goes West to Shearsby before looping back to the cafés at some 42 km into the 62 km ride.

Alternatively you can carry on to Rural Relaxing in Medbourne at 54 km.

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Top Lodge, Fineshade Wood

29/10/2023

Top Lodge café at Fineshade Wood can get busy if the weather is good, but there's lots of room and an outside courtyard. Fineshade is one of the last remaining wooded areas left of the old Rockingham Forest.

This loop starts off going West from the club, then swings up North through Uppingham and Rutland before returning across the Welland Valley to Fineshade. The total loop is 75km; here's the route in Strava.

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Wandering Route to Tur Langton

27/8/2023

Sometimes you don't need to go for distance! This route wanders around some of the roads nearby that we usually ride past, and targets Mint and Ginger at Tur Langton for the coffee stop.

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Mint and Ginger in Tur Langton

27/8/2023

Mint and Ginger is a lovely courtyard café on the edge of Tur Langton, and very cycle friendly.

Here are three routes that can take us there; the first goes South from the clubhouse, around Market Harborough and back up to Tur Langton, a loop totaling 67km. The second is more direct and Westerly, going via Gumley and Kibworth. The third is a variant on the first, a loop totaling 63km, shown on the right.

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W to Mini Meadows in Welford

6/8/2023

Mini Meadows is a modern café attached to a family-friendly farm near Welford. Here's their website.

Here's a link to the 77 km Strava route used in November 2020, and a longer ride of a little over 80 km is downloadable below.

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82km loop to Buddhist Centre in Thornby

21/5/2023

Here's the full loop in Strava

Lovely coffee and cakes from the veggie café in the grounds of an old country house. It doesn't open until 11:00 though, so worth getting a few more miles in before the stop!

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Sibbertoft Glider Club

12/3/2023

This place has a different vibe from most cafes, and with a working aerodrome there is usually plenty to see. The route takes an unusual path to get to Oxendon, just so that we can use a few rarely-ridden roads near the clubhouse :)

The route is 67km long, with the café stop just about half way round.

The route is also workable to visit Waterloo Farm near Oxendon, but you'd have to reverse it to get to the stop about 3/4 of the way around.

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Open Day Loops

19/2/2023

Here are two 55 Km loops that leave the clubhouse, go West around Market Harborough and then return to the start point for refreshments. One loop goes clockwise, and the other simply reverses the ride and goes anti-clockwise - make sure you download the right one!

For a Sunday club run, go anti-clockwise and stop off at Waterloo Farm, just North of Great Oxendon.

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Launde Abbey Clockwise

4/12/2022

There are three clockwise loops here of 39, 42 and 51 km to take us to Launde Abbey Café, where the coffee break is tempered by thoughts of the sharp climb immediately after leaving the stop! The return from Launde is 20 Km.

The first part of the two longer routes are also useful if you are looking for a short ride to Mint and Ginger in Tur Langton, which comes up after 16km/10miles.

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Here's a link to the longest route in Strava.

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Tur Langton

23/10/2022

Here's a variation on some other rides posted in this list (search for Tur Langton), with the Mint and Ginger coffee stop appearing at 45km into a 62km ride.

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West loop returning to Geddington

18/9/2022

The routes here start off West from the club, go anti-clockwise around Market Harborough and end up at Geddington for a café stop. The shorter 60km route is ideal for a shorter winter ride, the longer one is preferred for summer.

The image on the rights shows the different lines for each route.

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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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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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Loop via Great Glen

5/9/2021

This 83km loop goes West towards Leicester, and passes a couple of good coffee stops around just past the half-distance point.

Here's the route in Strava.

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

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The Workhouse, Brixworth

19/6/2021

This is a busy cafe with a great selection of food, with lots of local trade. The 79km route starts off going West then drops South to loop round to Brixworth.

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Tur Langton 'steady' 34km W

4/4/2021

Tur Langton hides the Mint and Ginger coffee shop in a small commercial development around a courtyard.

This route covers 34km (or 21 miles), so is ideal as for steady riders. Here's the route on Strava.

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