ABC Towns and Villages

[TheDoctor]

I'll do Foxton then, I think. I was going to do F for Foxton, but I did Fen Drayton instead!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I might have to settle for Foxton as an X. Unless I ride round Rutland Water and bag Exton.

Exning near Newmarket

 

[craigwend]

User9609 himself acknowledged that finding somewhere beginning with an X was going to be difficult if not impossible and that we'd probably need a trip to China for any real hope of bagging one.
Ex was agreed among the forumites as the next best thing but even those are a rarity in some parts.
I'm taking anything with a X in it.
Rivers rules on things were somewhat 'pliable' .

Someone in the cycle club suggested Xscape though that's a long way from me though on amusement count should stand

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Someone in the cycle club suggested Xscape though that's a long way from me though on amusement count should stand

Snow chance

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Today's ride took me to Jacks Hill, named after local giant Jack O'Legs. There's no village sign there, but there is a water board site, a (rather rubbish) pub, a garage and a mobile home park.
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I then carried on to L-for-Letchworth.
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Coming back, I took the route through Willian and Graveley across the fields, that I used when I worked in Letchworth.
It's a lot nicer in dry weather - my electric bike is still coated in mud from the commute.

I'm going to have to venture further afield for the next few letters, but I do have plans for M, N, O, P and Q.
Onwards

You can grab MNOP in a single relatively short ride

 

[TheDoctor]

I can, yes, but I've been to Preston (and Pirton) about a gazillion times...
My Sunday ride will involve a bit of a drive, but will get me MNOPQ.
RS I can do in between making a coffee and drinking it, practically.
My W ride will be fun, albeit slightly repetitive. I can do 5 Ws with about a 15 mile ride...

 

[Houthakker]

F is for Freckleton

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I can, yes, but I've been to Preston (and Pirton) about a gazillion times...
My Sunday ride will involve a bit of a drive, but will get me MNOPQ.
RS I can do in between making a coffee and drinking it, practically.
My W ride will be fun, albeit slightly repetitive. I can do 5 Ws with about a 15 mile ride...

Weston, Wallington, Walkden, Watton at Stone, Welwyn North, Welwyn Garden City, Woolmer Green, Whitwell

 

[TheDoctor]

Weston, Wallington, Walkden, Watton at Stone, Welwyn North, Welwyn Garden City, Woolmer Green, Whitwell

You missed Willian and both Wymondleys!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You missed Willian and both Wymondleys!

Wymondleys don't count as prefixed great and little (G and L). Yes missed Willian! I passed through Whitwell yesterday.

 

[redflightuk]

Managed to get out early today so headed east for E

quite a lot of roads closed around Elsenham so traffic was light. I passed through Farnham on the way to Elsenham.

The last time I was out this way the roads had just been resurfaced with chippings which made it heavy going but today was fairly easy.

G for Gravesend (no not that one). A small village to the north of Little Hadham.

Last letter for today.
My legs felt better as the ride went on but it wasn't a fast ride.. The sun was out for a while but the wind was cold so not a day for stopping too long. The short sharp climbs kept me warm on the way home. I think there must have been a sportive going on as I met a lot of cyclists with numbers heading the other way.. I popped in to Spoke cycles to see their new cafe and workshop. It's only 2 miles from home so handy for any repairs that I can't manage. After a coffee and cake it was a short ride home with 66 miles on the clock.

 

[TheDoctor]

I've had a busy few days.
I was over on the Cambridgeshire / Suffolk borders, so MNOPQ knocked off.

I was delighted to find a sign for Queen Adelaide.
I also found the only sign for Prickwillow that hadn't had the last six letters obliterated with white paint.

A bit more local for RST.
Redcoats Green and Titmore Green are just up the road from me, and I live in S - this sign is within a few minutes walk.

I'm experimenting with different handlebar positions on the Singlespeed.
This current one isn't a good look, to say the least!

 

[Shadow]

It's been a while since I posted here and even the newcomers are ahead of me now.

The reason is that the fall I took getting D back at the beginning of february turned out to be a fractured pelvis. Went to a local GP who sent me for x-rays. Nothing, come back in 2 weeks if still in discomfort, they said. Two weeks later they found a couple of cracks!
Some hilarity first time round as radiologist asked me if I was sure it was the right hand side as the GP has asked for pictures of left hand side. Radiologist turned down my offer of seeing my technicolor road rash as proof of my own awareness of difference between left and right! Not for the first time, I was not impressed with a local GP. OTOH she did set me up with a great physio once on the mend.
After 6 weeks of doing nothing which was so, so, frustrating and a very gentle 2 week introduction back to the bike, I completed a 50 km ride on saturday without pain and bagged my E.

N.B. Loverly fresh green grass and ewe with lamb! Sadly, the closer mother and baby shuffled off while I was readying the camera.

 

[TheDoctor]

Glad you're on the mend. My rides over the weekend had a few sheep and lambs, and also a few foals.

 

[Houthakker]

Plenty of "G's" to choose from around here, but who would want an average Plumpton when you can have a ....

Also sorted H out on the same ride