Cycle Route : the Hills of North Essex

The BBC News website had an article on Saturday – ‘Rise of the Mamils (Middle Aged Men in Lycra)’ (link) which looked at men who take up cycling between the ages of 33 and 45. Sadly, I realised I was a couple of years older than that when I took up cycling – but I [...]

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Cycle route : Colchester, Fordham, Mount Bures, Chappel, Coggeshall, Tiptree, Layer.

I’ve posted a couple of my regular cycle routes already, one to the N and NE, covering Dedham and Manningtree (click here), and one to the S, covering Tiptree, Tolleshunt, Gt. Wigborough, and Peldon (click here).

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St. John the Baptist Church at Layer, and Essex Wildlife Trust at Abberton Reservoir

The weather has been really cold recently, but finally today it warmed up enough for us to go out for a bike ride.First we went to Layer de la Haye. We cycled through Abbey Fields and then past Merville Barracks and  up Layer Road. We went past the sad sight of the old Layer Road Football [...]

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Cycle Route – Colchester – Dedham – Manningtree – Mistley – Colchester

I took advantage of the bright blue skies this morning to get out on the bike and do one of my regular routes. If it wasn’t for stopping and taking some pictures and videos, I’d have got back before the downpour at 12:30! I’ve set up a map on the excellent Gmaps Pedomoter map site – click [...]

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