CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CYCLING: THE ESSENTIALS
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
SANDRINGHAM LOOP
Start/end: Sandringham Distance: 17.8km Time: 1-11/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Historic Royal Sandringham Estate and Castle Rising, churches, woodlands and picturesque villages
GREAT BIRCHAM LOOP
Start/end: Great Bircham Distance: 32.9km Time: 3hrs
Dfficulty: 1 Highlights: Rolling country lanes, through pretty villages and arable farmland; past Bircham Windmill, Houghton Hall and Deer Park
WELLS AND HOLKHAM LOOP
Start/end: Wells-next-the-Sea Distance: 28.9km Time: 2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Holkham Nature Reserve, AONB coastal dunes and wildfowl nature reserve; off-road trails and historic country estate, Holkham Hall; detour to site of Warham, Iron Age fort; Wellsnext-the-Sea, resort and sandy beach on Holkham Bay
CLEY LOOP
Start/end: Cley Marshes Nature Reserve Distance: 26.3km Time: 21/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Cley coastal marshes and heath, Letheringsett Watermill, Holt Country Park and passing near to
the North Norfolk Railway at High Kelling
NORTHERN BROADS:
HICKLING TO HORSEY LOOP
Start/end: Hickling Broad Visitor Centre Distance: 32.9km Time: 31/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Hickling Broads Nature Reserve, Horsey coastal sand dunes and seal colony, Horsey Windpump, a huge Tudor barn and a rare medieval church
MARRIOTT'S WAY
Start/end: Norwich/Aylsham Distance: 30.8km Time: 3hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Along the peaceful Wensum Valley, following the route of the former railway line from Norwich to
Aylsham, dotted with Victorian steam memorabilia
REEDHAM BROADS LOOP
Start/end: Reedham Ferry Distance: 38.4km Time: 4hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Farmland, marshes and villages of the lower Yare Valley, historic churches and riverside Reedham
overlooking the Broads
SOUTHERN BROADS LOOP
Start/end: Reedham Ferry Distance: 34.7km Time: 4hrs
Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Peaceful Broads waterways and farmland, historic churches, windmills and stately gardens
BUNGAY SAINTS TRAIL
Start/end: Bungay Distance: 32.5km Time: 31/2hrs
Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Bungay, ancient market town; historical churches in isolated hamlets and a World War II aviation museum
THETFORD FOREST
Start/end: High Lodge, Thetford Forest Distance: 16.6km Time: 2hrs
Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Forestry woodland; off-road cycling trails over level or gently rolling terrain; multi-activity centre,
from high-wire adventure to climbing walls and more
IXWORTH MILLERS' TRAIL
Start/end: Ixworth Distance: 23.9km Time: 21/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Historic windmills, a watermill, an Elizabethan manor and vineyard, and a wetland nature reserve
EYE TO DEBENHAM LOOP
Start/end: Eye Distance: 34.4km Time: 31/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Historic market town Eye, chic Debenham, Wetheringsett vintage railway and mid-Suffolk's rolling golden meadows
WALBERSWICK TO SOUTHWOLD LOOP
Start/end: Walberswick Distance: 31.3km Time: 31/2hrs
Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Walberswick and Southwold, traditional seaside resorts; heath and countryside, picturesque villages and a historic windmill
ORFORD LOOP
Start/end: Orford Distance: 33.9km Time: 31/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Historic Orford, arty Snape Maltings, a medieval church and a watermill, plus an optional red-graded MTB forest trail
SUTTON HOO AND RENDLESHAM FOREST LOOP
Start/end: Sutton Hoo Distance: 35.2km Time: 4hrs
Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Anglo-Saxon treasures at Sutton Hoo, Shingle Street beach, mountain biking in Rendlesham Forest
LAVENHAM LOOP
Start/end: Market Square, Lavenham Distance: 20.7km Time: 21/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Lavenham, one of the best preserved medieval towns in East Anglia; sleepy villages and rolling
agricultural countryside
MOULTON LOOP
Start/end: Moulton Distance: 13.1km Time: 11/2 hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Rolling meadows and woods, Fen villages, a stud farm, a medieval bridge and three great country pubs
NEWMARKET JOCKEYS' TRAIL
Start/end: Moulton Distance: 45.7km Time: 41/2hrs
Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Sleepy villages, rolling meadows, pristine stud farms, and Newmarket - world capital of horse racing
CAMBRIDGE TO ELY
Start/end: Cambridge-Ely Distance: 39.1km Time: 4hrs
Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Historic Cambridge University colleges, Anglesey Abbey, Ely Cathedral, Cam riverside path and Wicken Fen
HOUGHTON MILL LOOP
Start/end: Houghton MIll Distance: 28.3km Time: 3hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Historic Houghton watermill, riverside villages, and the Busway-Cycleway eco-route through Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB Nature Reserve
GRAFHAM WATER LOOP
Start/end: Marlow Park, Grafham Water Distance: 14.5km Time: 11/2hrs
Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Lakeside trail fringed by wooded countryside; nature reserves and watersports
ACCOMMODATION
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FURTHER INFORMATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
