WE AIM TO RUN TWO GROUPS AT ALL RIDES SOMETIMES IT IS NOT POSSIBLE _ ANY CHANGES WILL BE ADDED TO THE RIDES LIST FRIDAY BY 8PM.
This is an opportunity to sample yet more delights of the Moors Valley and Ringwood Forest area by starting from the Woolsbridge Industrial Estate. You will find the start location by taking the road to Three Legged Cross, and you will find the Woolsbridge Industrial Estate in close proximity to the entrance to the Moors Valley Country Park.
We will use the Woolsbridge Industrial Estate general kerbside parking and the turning into the industrial estate off the Ringwood Road is at SU 096 051.
There is a pub called the Three Legged Cross Inn on the main road at the turning point into the industrial estate but please do not use the pub car park and abandon your car for 3 hours, it will be frowned upon by the pub management.
WE AIM TO RUN TWO GROUPS AT ALL RIDES SOMETIMES IT IS NOT POSSIBLE _ ANY CHANGES WILL BE ADDED TO THE RIDES LIST FRIDAY BY 8PM.
We seem to like starting from here and for good reason; it is easily accessible just off the motorway junction for Bar End, it is large enough to accommodate us, and it gives a good starting point for nice riding, although I suspect part of the attraction is The Queen Inn at the end of the ride. I don’t need to remind you that it can be a bit cold in December, so be sure to arrive kitted out in appropriate clothing.
As discovered in previous rides starting from Garnier Road, there are a number of options to choose from including a route southwards along the Itchen Navigation where it passes St Catherine’s Hill before turning eastwards up Plague Pits Valley, then onwards along the Dongas tracks for Hazeley Down, Morestead, and Cheesefoot Head and the South Downs Way, Milbury’s Inn and the general area near Cheriton. Or, we could choose to take the other direction, up Compton Down, around the fringes of Flowerdown, West Wood Farley and other points of note.
WE AIM TO RUN TWO GROUPS AT ALL RIDES SOMETIMES IT IS NOT POSSIBLE _ ANY CHANGES WILL BE ADDED TO THE RIDES LIST FRIDAY BY 8PM.
Castle Hill is always a good choice for the energetic ones, whilst the old railway line beckons for those who want a gentler ride. For those who want a change, then Bisterne Common offers an escape from the usual New Forest tracks. All these options have reasonably good surfaces where the seasonal weather does not bring too many disadvantages to progress It is possible to take in Dur Hill where it forms a perimeter track right on the edge of the Forest boundary but this will be slow going. In the other direction, there lies the chance of Burley Outer Rails tracks and onwards to Bolderwood; these tracks of course are typical Inclosure gravel surfaces which will roll reasonably well.