ABC Towns and Villages

[All uphill]

That's V done.

58 hilly (4500ft) miles of fog and rain.

 

[13 rider]

The nearest Gloucestershire one to me is a 230 mile round trip! I have a couple of potentials in Leicestershire at a mere 70 ish miles

Queniborough will be your best bet you will be able to skirt round the bottom of Leicester ,Any routing queries give me a shout

 

[Chromatic]

Went out to do D today and when I got there (Deerhurst) there wasn't a village sign, so I went via here on the way back.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That's V done.

58 hilly (4500ft) miles of fog and rain.

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That looks suitably wet. Good to see full length mudguards

 

[Willd]

L to N today in 31 miles. L and N are only a couple of miles apart, but doing them in order took a bit longer

Long Lawford. I was originally going to have Little Lawford, but it doesn't appear to have any signs

Marton

Newbold on Avon

Over half way now

 

[Chromatic]

Did E and F, and a church, on today's ride. @Spinney will recognise these two signs, as will anyone else who has been paying attention to her pics.

 

[Chromatic]

Out to do G today.

 

[All uphill]

Wells today.

I worked here for a couple of years and am very fond of this place. Surprised how busy it was today.

This was the longest ride I have ever done. 80 miles.

And a bonus shot from the high street with cathedral in the background.

 

[Chromatic]

Another church visited today via these two places.

 

[uphillstruggler]

J and K, after 73 miles , although K is only about 5 miles from home.

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Should be a bit easier now, until I get to Q

there’s s a few Juniper Hills, we must be coming from all points to that place

 

[Spinney]

Viney Hill, Westbury on Severn, Chaxhill (I think that's allowed for X! Hope so, I'm going to be relying on that rule for Z as well!)

Alveston, Berkeley, Cam, Dursley, Eastington, Frocester, Gossington Bridge, Ham, Iron Acton, [J skipped], Kingswood, Little Badminton, Malmesbury, Newport, Oldbury-on-Severn, Purton, Quedgeley, Rockhampton, Stinchcombe, Thornbury, Uley, Viney Hill, Westbury on Severn, ChaXhill.

 

[Spinney]

Much the most suitable I seems to be Ireland in Bedfordshire, which would require a different sort of adventure to anything I've been able to do lately. Alternatively there's a little place called Iron Cross, north of Evesham which does have signs and which I can get to much more easily. It's a namesake after a fashion.

But I can only see one J - Jersey Marine, near Swansea. I'm expect the locals call it simply "Jersey". This is going to take a while.

Chromatic (based near Gloucester) did an I that might be nearer to home.
There's a Joy's Green in the Forest of Dean (and I think I found a village sign for it on Google Streetview). I ducked out of that at the time as the distance and hilliness would have been too much for me. As I only have Y (8 miles from home) and Z (I'm going to claim Ozleworth, again not far from home), I might try and bag J as well for a full house, and only cheats on X (Chaxhill) and Z.

 

[Chromatic]

Chromatic (based near Gloucester) did an I that might be nearer to home.
There's a Joy's Green in the Forest of Dean (and I think I found a village sign for it on Google Streetview). I ducked out of that at the time as the distance and hilliness would have been too much for me. As I only have Y (8 miles from home) and Z (I'm going to claim Ozleworth, again not far from home), I might try and bag J as well for a full house, and only cheats on X (Chaxhill) and Z.

Yes I did and it's much nearer to home for @Aravis as I see he's from Gloucester. The I I went to is just a suburb on the outskirts of Gloucester now rather than a place on its own anymore so he won't have to go too far at all.

As you may have seen I'm up to J now and Joy's Green was going to be my J. I will confess now that when I do it then I will probably cheat and make it part of a park and ride visit, there's a hi-fi/record shop in Cinderford that I want to go to and I was going to take my bike in the car when I visit there and hop on the bike and ride to Joy's Green on the same day.
I've got a similar cheat in mind for X as you , not even thought about Z yet though.

 

[Spinney]

I was thinking of a park and ride for Joy's Green as well. It's a very long and quite hilly rude to do from home.

 

[Chromatic]

It is a bit of a trek for you isn't it, and I too noticed plenty of tightly packed contours when I looked at the map.