Cycle maps

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Dear lazyweb, is there a website where I can look up cycle routes? Similar to googlemaps search, but specifically for cycling rather than walking. I've looked and looked but I'm not coming up with anything.

(Or alternatively, do any of you have good routes to Harston (where I'm sure I've been by bike before, isn't it on the way to Duxford? And it has the pub where they do the rabbit pie Jon's always talking about (seriously, he even has a 'rabbit pie' course he teaches (no, not really))) or Cambourne?)

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[fivemack.livejournal.com]

There's cyclestreets.net which knows about cycle paths and can be asked to pick quickest vs quietest routes.

It looks as if either you go straight down Trumpington Road including a bit where it's turned into the A10, which doesn't sound much fun at all, or you take quite a long detour (two sides of a fairly fat triangle) by way of both of the Shelfords.

Or the Cantelupe-Farm route south from Grantchester, along a very quiet tentacle into Haslingfield and then right along a bridleway into Hauxton and a tiny bit of A10 into Harston (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=542465&Y=253495&A=Y&Z=120) but I've never been down the bridleway and don't know if it's made out of muddy potholes covered in spikes.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I think Trumpington Road sounds like the way we went before, I don't think we went Shelford at all. Thankyou.

[lnr]

http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/2107790/ definitely seems to choose the A10 route - for both fastest, quietest and balanced routes.

[bjh21.livejournal.com]

The bridleway from Grantchester to Haslingfield is pretty variable. It's a perfectly pleasant gravel track until the M11 bridge, then turns into a rougher grassy path along the motorway, and turns into something that's basically a footpath (and probably quite muddy at the moment) down to the bridge over Bourn Brook. Beyond that bridge, it recovers into an entirely acceptable concrete farm road.

The path from the motorway bridge to the A603 is better, and the A603 through Barton is quite tolerable, so last time I went to Haslingfield I went through Grantchester and Barton. Better views of the telescopes that way, too.

[nevboo.livejournal.com]

open street map is worth trying and maybe ctc http://www.ctc.org.uk/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=3377

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Thankyou

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Cycling via Grantchester and Haslingfield is probably quite nice.

Which pub is that? I noticed the Queens Head is advertising cream tea. Let me know when you come to Harston and I can pop out for a drink ;)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one. We were planning on a saturday evening for purposes of dancing/celebrating Jack and Rachelness. I think I'll put all three children in the front as we'll be late home.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Noe that the Queens Head has changed hands a couple of times recently, so I'm not sure about the rabbit pie (they have menus online).

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what you're talking about now ;)

[mair_in_grenderich]

http://www.camcycle.org.uk/map/ ?

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

When I worked in Harston and cycled there, I just went straight down the A10.

I'm told that the owner of Canteloupe farm is reasonably approachable for permission to use their private motorway bridge. Otherwise, the route via Grantchester looks feasible, but is rather a long way round.

Harston isn't overwhelmed with impressive pubs, there's the Queen's Head, which is a standard Greene King pub and the The Pemberton Arms, which I don't know well (I don't think it did food when I worked nearby). The closest pub of note is also the Queen's Head, but in Newton, which is a superb and very individual pub, the only food there is soup and sandwiches, but incredibly good soup and sandwiches.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I think it waa the Harston Queen's Head but I could be wrong. I'll go the A10 route I think.

[jaq.livejournal.com]

When I look at Google Maps directions, it has a cycle option - looks like it is in beta test on .com.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how exciting! Thankyou

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

Does Sustrans have anything useful on their site?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I'll have a look, thanks