BKIT Challenge 2010 - A 50 mile ride around Warwickshire countryside in four stages

25th July 2010
http://www.buwankothi.org.uk/cycle.htm


Stage 1
Royal Leamington Spa to Clifford Chambers
Stage Distance = 16 miles

Starting promptly at 10:30 from the Bandstand in the Pump Room Gardens in Royal Leamington Spa.

We then cycle past the art deco style facade of Leamington Railway Station before crossing the Grand Union Canal on cycle track before heading towards Warwick on the Myton Road.

At the roundabout at the top of Myton Road we glimpse Warwick Castle on our right as we turn left on the A425 Banbury Road. After a brief stretch on this busy road we turn right, crossing through the village of Barford.

We then cycle past the grounds of stately Charlecote Park (if you're lucky you may see some fallow Deer, tourists are more likely though).

We proceed passing close by helicoptors and light aircraft at Wellesbourne Airfield. Turning right at the top of the road we continue towards Loxley on sweeping country roads through patchwork quilted fields.

Once through Loxley (recorded as a thriving agricultural community in 1086 by the Domesday Book) we turn left skirting through Stratford with the River Avon on our right hand side. We head out through the Shipston Road hurtling towards the first stage stop at the New Inn in the village of Clifford Chambers.

Stage 2
Clifford Chambers to Arrow
Stage Distance = XX miles

Description TBC

Stage 3

Alcester to Lowsonford
Stage Distance = XX miles

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Stage 4

Lowsonford to Royal Leamington Spa
Stage Distance = XX miles

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