Colchester To Harwich And Return Colchester Bike ride on Cycle Routes UK

England > Essex > Colchester

Cycle Route Details

Route Name

Colchester To Harwich And Return

Distance(miles)

30.27

Duration(hh:mm)

03:00

Difficulty

2/10

Posted By

W Bramhill

Calories Burned

1225.94 kcal

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Cycle Route Location
Country	England
Town/City	Colchester
County/Region	Essex
Start Location	Crockleford Hill, Colchester
End Location	Crockleford Hill, via Harwich


Cycle Steps	Font size : A+ \| A-
1. Colchester to Harwich via Ardleigh, Lawford, Manningtree, Mistley, Bradfield, Wrabness, Ramsey and Dovercourt. Harwich to Colchester via Little Oakley, Great Oakley, Stones Green, Little Bromley, Great Bromley and Ardleigh.


Landmarks/Pubs for lunch/Sites to see?
Manningtree is a small market town well worth looking round; Mistley Walls and the remains of the village's Adams church are picturesque (good food in both communities). Bradfield has camping at the Strangers' Home pub, and its church graveyard boast Edwin Dunning, first man to land a plane on a ship at sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squadron_Commander_E.H._Dunning). Wrabness Woods are pretty, as is the village's tucked-away beach, slightly off the route. At Dovercourt, the Puritans from Dedham swept in and stripped out and burned the church roodscreen, which local people said had been talking to them, hence a Dovercourt Woman is a woman who likes gossip (there is also the nearby road, Holyrood, where the deed is said to have taken place); Harwich is marvellous, specially on one of the Sats and Suns when the Harwich Society hold guided tours www.harwich-society.co.uk. On the return journey, note the mast at Great Bromley, the last of four wartime radar aerials.

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