SearchRoute Suffolk Essex
Balsham and Clare v2 (107km) (67mi)
Start: Brookside
Author: Rupert
This variant takes an alternative route to Balsham via Fulbourn and Six-mile bottom. After Balsham it follows the same anti-clockwise circuit to Clare.
This variant also has a different route for the middle part of the return leg.
Issues on this route:
(34km) (21mi) Kerbs Narrow Footpath cut-through at Horseheath
(82km) (51mi) Narrow Burrough Green Byway
(82km) (51mi) Narrow Burrough Green Byway
Elevation gained: 633m over 107km 67mi.
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Distance covered at each grade:
<1%: 89km/55mi |
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1%-3%: 14km/9mi |
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3%-6%: 4km/3mi |
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6%-9%: 0.25km/0.16mi |
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This route passes through Cambridge (0km/0mi), Fulbourn (7km/5mi), Great Wilbraham (12km/8mi), Little Wilbraham (14km/9mi), Six Mile Bottom (18km/11mi), West Wratting (26km/16mi), Balsham (27km/17mi), West Wickham (32km/20mi), Streetly End (32km/20mi), Horseheath (33km/21mi), Cardinal's Green (35km/22mi), Mill Green (36km/22mi), Nosterfield End (38km/24mi), Castle Camps (39km/24mi), Helions Bumpstead (42km/26mi), Steeple Bumpstead (45km/28mi), Stambourne (50km/31mi), Wesley End (52km/32mi), Ridgewell (53km/33mi), Ashen (56km/35mi), Stoke-by-Clare (57km/36mi), Clare (59km/37mi), Chilton Street (63km/39mi), Brockley Green (67km/42mi), Kedington (69km/43mi), Great Wratting (71km/44mi), Great Thurlow (74km/46mi), Little Thurlow (75km/47mi), Great Bradley (77km/48mi), Burrough Green (81km/50mi), Burrough End (82km/51mi), Westley Waterless (83km/51mi), Dullingham (86km/53mi), Swaffham Bulbeck (94km/59mi), Bottisham (96km/60mi), Stow cum Quy (100km/62mi), Quy Waters (102km/63mi) and Cambridge (102km/64mi).
This route passes within about 1kmhalf a mile of the following possible refreshment stops: Balsham, The Old Butchers Cafe (27km/17mi), Clare, Platform One Cafe (60km/37mi), Quy, The White Swan (99km/61mi) and Teversham, Darwin Nurseries (101km/63mi).
We welcome corrections and updates.