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Routes

Local routes starting from SE20 Cycles may be sent to adultrides@pengecc.org. Include the link from Ride With GPS and provide a short description. Please test-ride it first to check one-way systems, public access and great places for cake.

Steady (Sunday mornings)

Route name	Distance	Elevation	Notes
Steady week 1: Downe	24 miles	992 ft	Holwoood Farm or the Lookout at Biggin Hill Airport.
Steady week 2: Chelsham via Featherbed	26 miles	1,326 ft	Botley Hill Sheep Shed.
Steady week 3: Tatsfield	27 miles	1,225 ft	Holwood Farm.
Steady week 4: Chelsfield	26 miles	1,240 ft	Holwood Farm.
Steady week 5: Downe and Berry’s	27 miles	1,240 ft	Holwood Farm.
Steady week 6: Warlingham	27 miles	1,150 ft	Botley Hill Sheep Shed.
Steady week 7: Nower Loop	27 miles	1,450 ft	Holwood Farm.
Steady week 8: Tatsfield via Featherbed	27 miles	1,500 ft	Holwood Farm or Tatsfield Tea Room.
Steady week 9: Tatsfield reverse	27 miles	1,225 ft	Tatsfield Tea Room or Botley Hill Sheep Shed.
Steady: Penge Legends Ride	27 miles	1,600 ft	Holwood Farm.
Steady: Downe and Cudham	28 miles	1,550 ft	Holwood Farm.
Steady: Slines Oak	29 miles	1,345 ft	Botley Hill Sheep Shed.

Short (Sunday mornings)

Route name	Distance	Elevation	Notes
Short week 1: Limpsfield Chart	33 miles	1,997 ft	Botley Farm Sheep Shed (café).
Short week 2: Otford	35 miles	2,114 ft	Pond View Café at Otford (cash payment only).
Short week 3: Pilgrim’s & Star	35 miles	2,135 ft	Vélo Barn and Eat’n’ Mess and Holwood Farm Shop.
Short week 4: Woldingham School	35 miles	1,950 ft	Botley Hill Sheep Shed (café) and Tatsfield Tea Room and Holwood Farm Shop.
Short week 5: Eynsford	35 miles	1,826 ft	Riverside Tea Room in Eynsford.
Short week 6: Farleigh & Downe	33 miles	1,746 ft	Botley Hill Sheep Shed (café) and Tatsfield Tea Room.
Short week 7: Blueberry Lane	33 miles	1,787 ft	Tatsfield Tea Room and Holwood Farm Shop.
Short week 8: Hogtrough	33 miles	1,895 ft	Vélo Barn and Holwood Farm Shop.
Short week 9: Godstone	35 miles	1,928 ft	Botley Hill Sheep Shed (café) in both directions with Flower Farm Tea Room soon after Godstone.
Penge Legends – Short	37 miles	2,135 ft	Rolling route out to Chelsfield and Halstead.

Medium

Route name	Distance	Elevation	Notes
Niki’s “medium medium”	45 miles	3,204 ft	Public toilets with café and shop at Ide Hill.
Rowdow and reverse Knatts Valley	48 miles	2,840 ft	Rowdow Hill, descent through Knatts Valley. Cafe at Eynsford.
Chartwell & Ide Hill	46 miles	2,960 ft	Public toilets with café and shop at Ide Hill.
Darenth Valley	41 miles	2,283 ft	Riverside Tearoom in Eynsford.

Long (Sunday mornings)

Route name	Distance	Elevation	Notes
Long week 1a: Enterdent & Treve reux	54 miles	3,008 ft	Cafes in Edenbridge; Pronto café at Four Elms.
Long week 1b: Pain’s Hill	53 miles	2,911 ft	Pronto café at Four Elms.
Long week 2a: Crouch	56 miles	3,933 ft	Pond View Café at Otford (cash payment only).
Long week 2b: Gracious Lane	54 miles	3,082 ft	Melias Place at Borough Green; Italian Deli at Kemsing (call to check if they are open).
Long week 3: Chiddingstone & Carter’s	55 miles	3,382 ft	Tulip Tree Café in Chiddingstone. (Inspired by an older route to Carter’s Hill.)
Long week 4a: Cobham & Vigo	57 miles	3,406 ft	Café at far end of Trosley Country Park. (This route evolved from The Peggy Spencer Classic.)
Long week 4b: Meopham Green	55 miles	3,199 ft	White Finch Bakery near Meopham Green.
Long week 5a: Penshurst	57 miles	4,062 ft	Porcupine Pantry at Penshurst Place. (Replacement for Long 2: Longer.)
Long week 5b: Ightham Mote	56 miles	3,379 ft	Café at Ightham Mote; Melias Place at Borough Green; Italian Deli at Kemsing (call to check if they are open).
Long week 6a: Chartwell & Row Dow	56 miles	3,520 ft	Café at Ide Hill; Italian Deli at Kemsing (call to check if they are open).
Long week 6b: Limpsfield Chart & Row Dow	51 miles	3,204 ft	Café at Ide Hill; Pond View Café at Otford (cash payment only).
Long week 7: Chiddingstone & Ide	54 miles	3,171 ft	Tulip Tree café in Chiddingstone (go through an archway then along on a gravel path).
Long week 8a: Cowden	53 miles	3,654 ft	Pronto café at Four Elms.
Long week 8b: Knatts Valley	51 miles	2,687 ft	Riverside Tearoom at Eynsford; Pond View Café at Otford (cash payment only).
Long week 9: Terry’s Lodge	54 miles	3,326 ft	Speedgate café near Fawkham Green; Pond View Café at Otford – cash payment only.
Long wet: Ide & Ivy Hatch	54 miles	3,688 ft	Café at Ide Hill; Pond View Café at Otford (cash payment only).
Penge Legends – Long	54 miles	3,488 ft	Includes Sundridge Hill.
Old Mother Hubbard	51 miles	3,717 ft	The imposing Toys Hill and then Hubbards Hill.
Chalkpit Challenge	56 miles	3,616 ft	Chalkpit: toughest climb in the area? Cafés at Ide Hill and Edenbridge.

Gran Fondo (100km to 100mi)

Route name	Distance	Elevation	Notes
Ashdown Forest	75 miles	5,563 ft	Warning: very hilly. Includes The Wall.
Balcombe	67 miles	4,325 ft	Café at Wakehurst Place.
Box Hill via Godstone	63 miles	2,982 ft	Cafe and great view at the top of Box Hill.
East Peckham	63 miles	3,606 ft	Mulberry Tree café in East Peckham.
Groombridge	65 miles	4,533 ft	Tulip Tree café in Chiddingstone; Porcupine Pantry at Penshurst Place.
Teapot Island	69 miles	3,865 ft	Café at Teapot Island.
Penge to Windsor	78 miles	2,662 ft	Via Richmond Park and Windsor Great Park.

Audax (several hours)

Route name	Distance	Elevation	Notes
Teapot Island 200km	125 miles	5,279 ft	Pretty, flat 200km route. Cafés at Teapot Island and Headcorn.
Penge-Whitstable-Penge	130 miles	6,264 ft	Cycle to the sea and back. Lots of cafés in Whitstable for lunch.

Outbound only

Route name	Distance	Elevation	Notes
Penge to Brighton	56 miles	3,600 ft	Via Ditchling Beacon.
Penge to Paris part 1	63 miles	3,846 ft	To Newhaven for the ferry to Dieppe…
Penge to Paris part 2	112 miles	4,508 ft	…and on to Paris.

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