ABC Towns and Villages

[EltonFrog]

I'm doing it properly

Are you going to ride to Zeals?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Good result, fair play, I used to ride through there a lot and go to Winslow for tea and cake.

I stopped at Winslow for coffee and cake

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Are you going to ride to Zeals?

No We have Zouch near us

 

[Oldfentiger]

Just 5 miles this afternoon to bag my R & S
I live in one and the other is an adjacent village.

 

[EltonFrog]

Just 5 miles this afternoon to bag my R & S
I live in one and the other is an adjacent village.
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That’s a nice looking bike. What is it?

 

[EltonFrog]

Why has everyone got better looking place signs than me?

 

[Oldfentiger]

Read all about it
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/elswick-lincoln-imp-f-f-free.242432/T

 

[EltonFrog]

Read all about it
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/elswick-lincoln-imp-f-f-free.242432/T

Gawd, what a terrible memory, I remember it now! Lovely bike.

 

[Shadow]

You bung the bike in the back of the car and drive some of the way.

Car? What's a car?!!

 

[Katherine]

C is for Croft.

It's going to be a while before I can get to D. The only ones are not on any route I've done before and are not even close enough to add on. Not sure when I'll be able to get time for a non club ride. Fingers crossed they have a sign when I do! (Daisy Hill or Daub Hill )

 

[EltonFrog]

Car? What's a car?!!

Ah! Right that’s a huge flaw in my plan.

 

[NorthernDave]

C is for Croft.
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It's going to be a while before I can get to D. The only ones are not on any route I've done before and are not even close enough to add on. Not sure when I'll be able to get time for a non club ride. Fingers crossed they have a sign when I do! (Daisy Hill or Daub Hill )

Didsbury or Davyhulme no good for you?

I'm up to 'H' and while there are a few within 5 or 6 miles (Harehills, Holbeck, Headingley and Hunslet), I'm struggling to find any proper signs with them being part of the urban sprawl, so I might have to have a special ride to Harewood or Harrogate (both involving the same hateful road), or further afield.

 

[Mr Celine]

Having perused this thread at greater length I have realised that apart from the A last week's ride didn't count as it was done D B A C E.

So here is a different B -

The same C but from the other end of the hamlet -

And ditto with D -

All signs done in alphabetical order. A rather breezy 32 miles.

 

[steverob]

First of all apologies to @steverob I had decided I was doing a 200km ride this weekend, but couldn't decide between do Verney Junction, which meant 62 miles of headwind and lots of climbing or Lincoln, which would be flatter but a 2 hour train journey added on at the end.

I got up at 5 this morning and decided on Verney Junction but thought it too late to let @steverob know.

No worries - I was out doing J through M today (will add details to the thread fairly soon), and those were in completely the opposite direction to Verney/Winslow, so I wouldn't have been available anyway. Glad to see you get them crossed off though!

 

[steverob]

So I took the train down to Seer Green today, in order to give me a ride where it would be 80% tailwind to get back home. Main aim was to cross off the village of Jordans, which is the only "J" in Buckinghamshire that has a sign.

Jordans

• steverob
• 17 Feb 2019

And I managed that within a few miles of starting the ride, although it did not have a sign approaching from the south of the village, so had to pass through and turn around to get the north end sign instead.

Originally I was just going to pootle round the Gerrards Cross area to cross off some VeloViewer tiles, then head home as I didn't think there was a "K" anywhere near by, but then I discovered...

Knotty Green

• steverob
• 17 Feb 2019

I knew Knotty Green existed, but thought it was just an area of Beaconsfield, not its own village (basically Beaconsfield has grown and now runs right up against Knotty Green), so finding this sign changed my plans somewhat.

I already knew where to find an "L" and an "M" on the way home that didn't need too much of a detour (had been planning on doing this particular "M" anyway on another ride)

Little Kingshill

• steverob
• 17 Feb 2019

Monks Risborough

• steverob
• 17 Feb 2019

And the bonus was that the little bit of extra mileage that I got from adding those two on, meant I crossed the 50 mile mark for my ride.

"N" through "Q" should follow on next week with any luck.