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- 2009-Aug-22: Cycling day 59: Greenwich to Canterbury
- 2009-Aug-20: Cycling day 58: Chelmsford to Greenwich
- 2009-Aug-19: Cycling day 57: Colchester to Chelmsford
- 2009-Aug-18: Cycling day 56: East Harling to Colchester
- 2009-Aug-17: Cycling day 55: Fakenham to East Harling
- 2009-Aug-17: Cycling day 54: Wisbech to Fakenham
- 2009-Aug-15: Cycling day 53: Woodhall Spa to Wisbech
- 2009-Aug-15: Cycling day 52: Barnetby-le-Wold to Woodhall Spa
- 2009-Aug-15: Cycling day 51: near Riccall to Barnetby-le-Wold
- 2009-Aug-15: Cycling day 50: Osmotherley to near Riccall
Archive for 2009-Jun-21
Cycling day 6: Chilthorne Dorner to Silverton
2009-Jun-21 by Gregory Williams.
Today’s cycling essentially involved climbing lots of small hills, one large hill, staying on a plateau for many miles, descenting back down a large hill, followed by several small hills again to reach my destination. The climb up the large hill took quite a bit of time, but I made very good progress on the plateau, and of course the downhill sections.
The route today took me along several as-yet unmapped roads, so I’ll be adding them to the OSM data once I manage to catch up with the backlog. Unfortunately I’m again without Internet connectivity, so the backlog is building up now.
Interestingly most of the T-junctions and crossroads in Devon seem to have junction names written on the post. I’ll be adding all of these to the OpenStreetMap data of course, but as far as I’m aware it’s not rendered yet.
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Cycling day 5: Bransgore to Chilthorne Dorner
2009-Jun-21 by Gregory Williams.
I made may way south to Christchurch to rejoin NCR2, following the coast for several miles. Unfortunately there was a reasonable headwind, so I wasn’t able the cycle that fast despite it being flat. I then picked up NCR25 and followed this pretty much to Blandford Forum, then followed some main roads to Shillingstone to find another segment of NCR25 on a portion of a former railway trackbed. The route takes you onto the platform of the station at the village where some rails begin and there is what appears to be a formative preserved railway group.
Recently Sustrans sent out a message to their volunteer rangers (of which I’m one) requesting that every milepost on the network receives a safety check. This is because somebody recently leant against a milepost and it fell over. So, since I’m passing lots of mileposts during my trip anyway I’ve been checking each one as I pass it. I’ve also been logging them to ensure that they’re all on OpenCycleMap.
Unfortunately the Internet access is down at the B&B that I’m staying at tonight. So I’ll upload this blog entry at the next opportunity.
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