Centurion Way Cycle Route
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Places of interest Places to Eat Cycle Shops S H Selsey Arms & Hire Locations S H Tinted entries are off the map West Dean Chichester PO18 0QX Hargroves – Chichester S 01243 811 465 30b Southgate LEISURE SERIES www.theselseyarms.co.uk Chichester PO19 1DP Time : ~45 Mins 01 01243 537337 The Earl of March www.hargrovescycles.co.uk Lavant CYCLING ROUTE Chichester PO18 0BQ City Cycles S 01243 533993 44 Bognor Rd www.theearlofmarch.com Chichester PO19 7TG Distance : 6M / 10Km Royal Oak 01243 539 992 Pook Ln, East Lavant www.citycycleschichester.co.uk Chichester PO18 0AX Geared Bikes and Wear S 01243 527434 70 Stockbridge Road www.royaloakhooksway.co.uk Chichester PO19 8QJ 01243 784 479 Village Shops www.gearedbikes.co.uk Centurion Way West Dean Stores Barreg S H West Dean Meadowside, Main Road Chichester PO18 0QY Fishbourne PO18 8AN Market Cross to West Dean 01243 811210 01243 786 104 www.barreg.co.uk © Crown Copyright and/or database right. All rights reserved. Licence number 100018803. flat with gentle slopes Other local village shops Halfords S Suitable for riders of all ages and abilities and all bike types can be found at Unit 1, Portfield Way www.chichester.gov.uk/ Chichester PO19 7YH Information villageshopdirectory 01243 533 062 i www.halfords.com Attractions Stowaway Bikes S H Cycling Team West Dean Gardens Unit 4 Premier Business Park web: www.chichester.gov.uk/cycling West Dean Main Road, Birdham PO20 7BU Chichester PO18 0QZ 01243 512 374 email: [email protected] 01243 811301 www.stowawaybikes.co.uk tel: 01243 785 166 www.westdean.org.uk The Chandlery Weald and Downland Chichester Marina Open Air Museum Chichester PO20 7EJ Singleton Marine Works Chichester PO18 0EU The Street 01243 811 363 Itchenor PO20 7AL This leaflet is available www.wealddown.co.uk in large print format Fishbourne Roman Palace Mobile Mechanics Fishbourne Road West Details correct at time of going to print. Fishbourne PO19 3QR Bike Master Please be aware routes are shared with other [email protected] users (vehicles, pedestrians, dogs, horses etc). 01243 785 859 Users of the cycle routes and leaflet series do so 07944 302 974 at their own risk. We do not accept any responsibility for any loss, damage or injury, Cycle Matters howsoever caused, arising directly or indirectly [email protected] from use of this leaflet. Please consult Directgov for information on appropriate safety equipment 07801 563 468, 01903 533 225 and safe cycling fact West Dean fact Gardens Centurion Way follows Sculptures decorate Selsey Arms the route of a former The designated cycle the path along the railway which opened 6 route ends here as you way commemorating in 1881 and closed in various aspects of enter West Dean village. Weald and Downland 1991. The line was sold Open Air Museum local history. to West Sussex County Council and combined West Dean The cycle route now Stores with land already 5 fact owned by Chichester shares a pavement with District Council to pedestrians. Give way to The name, Centurion create a cycle path. other users of this route Way, was chosen due to the fact that a Roman road from Chichester to Silchester crosses its path. The name was fact suggested by a local schoolboy. The 100m diameter amphitheatre was created by Justin Marshall on the site of a former quarry. Leaving the housing estate, 4 the path surface is clay and is a dedicated cycle route shared fact Royal Oak with pedestrians. fact Members of “The Chichester Road Gang” by The route now passes through Animal cut-outs David Kemp. Made from empty oxygen gas 3 a housing estate on road decorate the bridge cylinders, together they make up a ganger in (signposted). After 800m bear before the historic a bowler hat, a gang of workers with spades The Earl of March right at the green. Lavant Station (now and a surveyor with a theodolite. They are placed flats). These were where an historic Roman road to Silchester also made by Richard crosses the path of the old railway line. Farrington. All of the animal shapes were drawn by local school children before being Centurion Way starts by the railway fact enlarged and 2 line near the entrance to Bishop reproduced in steel The Roman Archway Luffa School. The route from here sheet. at the start of is on a designated cycle route. Centurion Way was Be aware of other path users. designed by local artist Richard Start at the Market Cross and 1 follow the cycle route west on Farrington. The arch Fishbourne road towards Westgate. Blue is from an ex Royal Roman Palace Navy minesweeper cycle signs mark the route decorated with Romano British Halfords mosaics. The dancers were inspired by the © Crown Copyright and/or database right. Roman Palace in Barreg All rights reserved. Licence number 100018803. City Cycles Fishbourne. Geared Hargroves.