A pleasant 29 miles ride, mostly through countryside, to Burnham Beeches, not too hilly and all on road.
START: Outside the Café in the Park in the Aquadrome, Frogmoor Lane, Rickmansworth WD3 1NB.
ROUTE PASSES: Chorleywood; Chalfont St Giles; Seer Green; Beaconsfield; Farnham Common; Fulmer; Gerrards Cross; Chalfont St Peter.
TAKES IN: Burnham Beeches, Rickmansworth Aquadrome.
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Up the hills to Bedmond with a 22 mile ride on quiet streets and lanes, cycle paths and a canal towpath.
START: Watford Cycle Hub, The Pavilion, Chaffinch Lane, Watford WD18 9QD.
ROUTE PASSES: Oxhey Park; Radlett Road Playing Fields; Meriden; Bricket Wood; Bedmond; Kings Langley; Hunton Bridge; Croxley Green.
TAKES IN: Grand Union Canal; Ebury Way; Whippendell Wood.
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A lovely 14 mile ride from Cassiobury Park to Chipperfield Common mainly on quiet roads, traffic free shared use paths and canal towpath with an alternative return through Whippendell Woods.
START: Cha Café, Cassiobury Park, WD18 7HY.
ROUTE PASSES: Croxley Green; Sarratt; Belsize; Chipperfield.
TAKES IN: Chipperfield Common; Grand Union Canal; Cassiobury Park; Whippendell Woods.
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A flat and almost totally traffic free 7 mile ride to Batchworth Lock and back using the Ebury Way and canal towpath.
START: Watford Cycle Hub, Chaffinch Lane WD18 9QD.
ROUTE PASSES: Batchworth Lock (WD3 1JJ); Croxley Green.
TAKES IN: Ebury Way, Grand Union Canal.
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A 6 mile ride into the countryside that defies the M1, both on and off-road.
START: Timberlake pay and display car park (WD24 4JL) across the road from the Rugby Club.
ROUTE PASSES: Aldenham; Patchetts Green.
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A 16 mile ride through the green belt between Watford and Radlett/Borehamwood.
START: Timberlake pay and display car park at the roundabout at the junction of Radlett Road and Colonial Drive, WD24 4J.
ROUTE PASSES: Patchetts Green; Aldenham; Colney Street; Smug Oak; Meriden.
TAKES IN: Bricket Wood Common.
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A surprising 18 mile excursion down the Colne River Valley, through the rural hinterlands of Hillingdon and back though South Oxhey, much of this off-road.
START: Watford Cycle Hub, Chaffinch Lane, Watford, WD18 9QD.
ROUTE PASSES: Rickmansworth; Harefield; Ruislip; Northwood Hills; South Oxhey.
TAKES IN: Grand Union Canal; Ebury Way; Bayhurst Country Park.
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A 7 mile route mainly on quiet roads, a bridleway and canal towpath.
START: Outside the Harvester, Baldwins Lane, WD3 3RX.
ROUTE PASSES: Cassiobury Park; Cassiobury; Chandler’s Cross.
TAKES IN: Whippendell Wood: Cassiobury Park: Grand Union Canal.
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A 5 mile ride mostly on quiet wooded lanes but with a slightly busier section on Sarratt Road and two short off-road sections.
START: Outside the Harvester, Baldwins Lane, WD3 3RX.
ROUTE PASSES: Chandler’s Cross.
TAKES IN: Whippendell Woods.
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Surprisingly rural 4 mile ride around Croxley Green. Large part traffic free using canal towpath and tracks.
START: Junction of the Rickmansworth Road and bridge over the Grand Union Canal, near the Harvester Restaurant (WD3 3RX).
ROUTE PASSES: Croxley Green.
TAKES IN: Grand Union Canal.
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