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H R V S O Dunstable area. ICAR A AG D E G S RO O A N The map shows a range of pleasant connecting routes, D I U Bike Hub Redbourn T R H each taking up to 1½ hours. For example, Dunstable Bluebells Tearooms Marsworth Br nt to Tring is an achievable 15 mile ride past Dunstable idg me ewater Monu Brownlow Café Ashridge Estate Downs, through Studham, Ashridge and Aldbury, taking Y A The Café at Stockgrove Stockgrove Country Park 1½ hours at 10 miles per hour. W

LD Charlie’s Wheathamstead The yellow quiet routes and off-road green or red routes IE N K Ringshall CuriosiTEA Rooms Pitstone connect communities together and provide links to C Hoo I Dorvic’s My Bike Shop R get to the numbered places of interest. Cafés and bike E Wood P Dunsley Farm Shop & Tea Room Tring 9 Bridge Street P 253 Birdsfoot Lane shops are also marked. U Emily’s Tea Shop Whitwell Leighton Buzzard LU7 1AH Luton LU3 2HX Two inset maps of Rushmere and Ashridge show great Tel: 01525 373060 Tel: 01582 493636 Gateway Centre Dunstable Downs tracks and trails to follow on bike or on foot. mybikeshopluton.co.uk Hardware Café Toddington Cycledealia We hope this map makes some great places to visit Harpers Pepperstock 15C Sun Street Bloomfield Cycles seem accessible. Enjoy using it and enjoy the beautiful Hitchin SG5 1AE 21 Bloomfield Avenue Jakes Café Woodside Animal Farm Aley Green countryside the area has to offer. Sensitive Area: Tel: 01462 631555 Luton LU2 0PT Walking but The Lavender Tea Room Hexton no cycling 6 Golf www.cycledealia.co.uk Tel: 01582 454477 0 Aldbury 5 Course 4 PE Mead & Sons Farm Shop & Tea Room Wilstone www.bloomfieldcycles.co.uk N Nowers B O Sallow Kinetic Cycles R Bridgewater Little T Copse Treetops Café Rushmere Country Park H S Market Place T Monument Mountain Mania Cycles Tring F O I Gaddesden E C L K Village Café Markyate Hitchin SG5 1DR 4-6 Miswell Lane D

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A41 LOWER WAY L L I H Places to visit Rushmere D N Sustrans Online Mapping U O P Search 14,000 miles of the National Cycle Network on the There are a number of great places to visit and explore HEATH ROAD 17 Pitstone Windmill E H N EA A T Sustrans online mapping. On the mapping you can also L H locally. Listed here is just a selection, all easily accessible by KE R Tel: 01442 851227 www.nationaltrust.org.uk STO OAD find: bike on quiet lanes and cycle paths. • Bike shops 18 Ivinghoe Beacon Bragenham Tel: 01442 851227 www.nationaltrust.org.uk Wood • Places of interest 1 Rushmere Country Park/Stockgrove Country Park Great • Places to eat and drink Tel: 01525 237760 www.greensandtrust.org 19 College Lake Brickhill Rammamere Heath • Accommodation 2 Linslade Woods Tel: 01442 826774 www.bbowt.org.uk IVY LANE Visit www.sustrans.org.uk/map Tel: 01525 237760 www.linsladewoods.org.uk 20 Tring Reservoirs 3 Tiddenfoot Lake Tel: 01582 841985 www.fisheries.co.uk/tring You’ll find out lots more about cycling in Bedfordshire at Stockgrove Park Tel: 01525 237760 www.tiddenfoot.org.uk Natural History Museum, Tring TKing’s www.cbtravelchoices.co.uk 21 House h Woode e Tel: 020 7942 6171 www.nhm.ac.uk/tring lak ov 4 Great Bramingham Wood e at Stockgr

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www.woodlandtrust.org.uk Y V The area featured in this map covers part of the National 5 Galley & Warden Hills I The Café at BR Tel: 01582 486983 www.chilternsaonb.org ICK Cycle Network, over 14,000 miles of traffic-free paths, 23 Ashridge Estate HI Stockgrove & LL R O Visitor Centre A quiet lanes and on-road walking and cycling routes around Tel: 01442 851227 www.nationaltrust.org.uk D 6 Barton Hills RN ROAD Oak BU Alders Baker’s O the UK. Wood W Tel: 0300 060 6000 www.naturalengland.org.uk 24 Harpenden Common Farm Fishery Wood The Network is coordinated by Sustrans, the charity that’s Tel: 01582 768278 www.harpenden.gov.uk Stockgrove 7 Wardown Park & Museum Country Park enabling people to travel by foot, bike or public transport Tel: 01582 546 722 www.lutonculture.com 25 Heartwood Forest for more of the journeys we make every day. Our work 8 Stockwood Park www.woodlandtrust.org.uk makes it possible for people to choose healthier, cleaner B RA Pump tracks GE Tel: 01582 548600 www.lutonculture.com NH and bike only and cheaper journeys, with better places and spaces to AM

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E D A move through and live in. Café & Bragenham O Woodside Animal Farm R 9 Visitor Bragenham N Other cycle maps R Tel: 01582 841044 Manor Centre U B Rushmere O It’s time we all began making smarter travel choices. www.facebook.com/WoodsideAnimalFarm Park W Make your move and support Sustrans today. Sustrans produce pocket sized cycle maps of 10 Houghton Hall Park Three the National Cycle Network. They include South Locks www.houghtonhallpark.org B Heath R A www.sustrans.org.uk G Cambridgeshire, Beds & North Herts which shows E and Reach N B H IR 11 Totternhoe Knolls A D M 'S the routes around Luton. H L A IL Tel: 01234 364213 www.wildlifebcn.org N L 0845 838 0651 E GIG LANE 12 Blows Downs All sales directly benefit Sustrans work and help to Tel: 01234 364213 www.wildlifebcn.org maintain and develop the National Cycle Network.

D OA 13 Dunstable Downs LINSLADE R BR AY Pocket sized guide to the National Cycle Network Ri AG W ver EN D Pocket sized guide to the National Cycle Network O HA N Tel: 01582 500920 www.nationaltrust.org.uk u M A ER ze LA ST N O A l E E South Cambridgeshire, R Herefordshire, Worcestershire Beds & North Herts Cycle Map N & North Gloucestershire Cycle Map O 14 Whipsnade Tree Cathedral T including the The Great North Way, Flitch Way, Cambridge, H Updated Milton Keynes and 3 individual day rides including The Mercian Way, The Peregrine Path, part of the G & revised Six Castles Cycleway and 4 individual day rides I E Tel: 01582 872406 www.nationaltrust.org.uk Rushmere L 15 Whipsnade Zoo

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