Jubilee River Cycle Route Leaflet
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A4 Points to note Maidenhead 1 Burnham Station Upton Taplow Station 1 There is no easy cycle route between BA Lea Maidenhead Bridge and the start of the Jubilee TH ROAD To Uxbridge A A 4 3 River path at the Berry Hill traffic lights. If you are Maidenhead BA 5 T 5 not confident cycling along the A4, push your Station s LA H e K R Iver M E E OA bike along the footway. m N B A D a D Cippenham R R h R A S T D C 2 Amerden Lane has a very poor surface with Y H IP r P R e L EN many potholes, but is great fun on a mountain O v A i H A AY A D R W M bike! To Reading AN LA ERCI NE B 2 M Slough Station 2 3 The path around Bray Lake has special 3 1 0 4 2 A barriers, which some may find difficult to 8 8 negotiate. A Iver Station 3 0 8 4 Sections of the route through Dorney Lake 5 Park are grass only. They are usually quite Langley Station Dorney rideable, but can be slippery when wet. Wetlands Richings M4 5 Some parts of the new bridleway between MO TOR Mercian Way andPark Manor Farm Bridge are WAY A 4 L Langley awaiting surface improvements. Take care in the Bray Jubilee River Slough ON D meantime. ON RD Linear Park 6 The routes through Ditton Park are available Y WA during daylight hours only. At other times use OR Dorney Court When you are on the OT (Historic Houses B302 the alternative route via the A4 London Road 4 M Association) 6 CO M Dorney MM 0 National Cycle Network ON 7 between Upton Court Park and Brand’s Hill. RD 4 you will see these signs. B 7 Take care when using the spiral ramps and 0 3 B bridge/underpass to cross the motorway junction 3 O 3 A 3 V A 08 at Brand’s Hill. W E Eton 6 IN N Due to open DS 4 E Linear Park O Y in 2008 8 The path under the M4 may be closed at times National Cycle Network traffic-free R River Tham RO R Eton Wick of high flow on the Jubilee River. AD D B30 Ditton Park National Cycle Network on-road 26 B 3 7 7 es 6 Link and other route, mostly 2 Eton DA traffic free 3 3 College T A Railway (station) Holyport Dorney Lake Park C H Take care point E T A4 R Tourist attraction D Pub Windsor & Eton IDE Cafe A308 MA NHEAD RD Riverside Station River Tham Datchet To Heathrow Information centre Windsor Castle Datchet Station Fifield es Windsor & Colnbrook Oakley Eton Central Station B3 Green 024 0 Miles 0.5 1 1.5 4 B320 Based on the Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the To Windsor Windsor Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown Copyright Poyle 0 Kilometres 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 Great Park 2008. Slough Borough Council. Licence No. 100019446 This map has been produced by Sustrans in partnership with Slough Borough Council and the Royal Borough of The main routes on this map are based on the Jubilee Windsor and Maidenhead Attractions along the routes Dorney Lake Park www.dorneylake.com Other cycle routes within Slough, River Cycleway, its eastward extension into Slough Splendid park and arboretum set around the 2,000-metre Windsor and Maidenhead Linear Park and the section of the Thames Valley The Jubilee River www.environment–agency.co.uk Eton College Rowing Lake, a venue for the 2012 www.slough.gov.uk www.rbwm.gov.uk Cycle Route that passes through the area. These Olympics, and open to the public throughout the year. Both Slough Borough Council and the Royal Borough routes are all part of the National Cycle Network, The seven-mile-long man-made flood channel was CYCLE MAP constructed by the Environment Agency and opened National Route 4 runs through the park from the Thames of Windsor and Maidenhead produce separate maps National Routes 61 and 4. This leaflet shows where at Summerleaze Bridge through to Boveney. showing all recommended cycle routes within the towns. these routes are and how they can be easily accessed in 2002. Running between Maidenhead and Windsor, it provides a haven for fish, birds, animals and people. Copies are available from their respective offices, visitor via links from the built-up areas around Slough, Windsor and Eton www.windsor.gov.uk information centres and some bike shops. Alternatively Windsor, Maidenhead and the surrounding villages. Highlights include the ‘Dorney Wetlands’, an area specially Over the past decade a network of new traffic-free cycle routes The Jubilee River & created to provide a superb breeding and feeding habitat The historic town centres of Windsor and Eton together see their websites for details. have been constructed and made available within the mainly rural with the adjacent riverside areas need little introduction for many bird species. A well surfaced 3-metre-wide path Opportunities for new or inexperienced cyclists area between the towns of Slough, Maidenhead and Windsor. follows its entire length, with most of this being available and are certainly worth a visit. They are easy to access by These routes, which can be easily accessed from many Slough Linear Park to cyclists. National Route 61 starts at the A4 bridge at bike from the various cycle routes shown. Elsewhere along A small local group locations, aim to connect people and local communities with Taplow and follows the Jubilee River before branching the river, cycling is permitted on part of the Thames Path formed in association places of work, leisure and other centres. As such they provide between Eton Wick and Windsor as shown on the route with Slough Borough ideal opportunities for family leisure cycling and to facilitate cycle off at The Myrke continue eastwards through the Slough Linear Park. map overleaf. Council and Sustrans, journeys to work or school. and known as Slough The routes are a partnership between Slough Borough Council, Traffic-free cycling opportunities between Slough Linear Park Freewheelers, will the Environment Agency, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Additional cycling opportunities provide guided rides Being mainly within the flood plain of the River Thames, Slough, Maidenhead and Windsor As the name implies, this is a narrow green corridor, Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire County Council, the Millennium for new or inexperienced cyclists or those that would the routes are flat and make for easy cycling and developed by Slough Borough Council and other partners, Thames Valley Cycle Route (TVCR) Commission and Sustrans, together with major landowners simply prefer to ride with a group. The rides are generally walking. Most of the paths are well surfaced and are including Eton College, Dorney Lake Trust, CA, Summerleaze Ltd with a footpath/cyclepath provided along its length. It www.sustrans.org.uk starts at the borough boundary at Manor Farm Bridge around six miles long and normally on traffic-free routes also suitable and accessible for pushchairs and disabled and Grundon Waste Management Ltd. Part of National Route 4 of the National Cycle Network which and extends along Jubilee River, then through Upton depicted on this leaflet. The rides take place once a users, particularly the Jubilee River path, Slough Linear is a continuous route going all the way from the Thames Court Park and Ditton Park to the edge of the Queen month on a Saturday, either from Upton Court Park or Park and the Thames Valley Cycle Route. The surfaces Sustrans and the National Cycle Network Barrage in London to St Davids in Pembrokeshire! Running Mother Reservoir. The land to connect Upton Court Park Dorney Court. If you are interested, call Gerald Pleace at of small sections of the main paths and some parts of locally between Windsor and Maidenhead, it continues Sustrans is the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity, and Ditton Park and thus complete the Linear Park has Slough Borough Council on 01753 875566 or e-mail him the link routes are in need of some improvement and eastwards through Windsor Great Park to Runnymede, working on practical projects so people choose to travel in now been acquired by the Council and path construction at [email protected] for details. wherever possible this has been noted in this leaflet. Staines and then on to London. Westwards from ways that benefit their health and the environment. The charity should be completed during 2008. Much of the funding Where these have been identified, they should be Maidenhead, it runs via Knowl Hill and Wargrave to Reading. is behind many groundbreaking projects including the National for new paths within the Linear Park has been provided regarded as less suitable for disabled users, novice Cycle Network, over twelve thousand miles of traffic-free, quiet From there the TVCR takes National Route 5 to Oxford, while Cycle hire by Grundon Waste Management Ltd via the Landfill Tax cyclists and road bicycles with narrow tyres. lanes and on-road walking and cycling routes around the UK. National Route 4 follows the Kennet and Avon Cycle Route Credit Scheme. We are the charity making a difference today so everyone can all the way to Bristol and beyond. Locally there is an excellent If you don’t have your own bicycle, but would like to The traffic-free routes shown are a combination of live a better tomorrow. cycle some of the routes shown on this leaflet, cycles public rights of way, shared-use paths alongside some Ditton Park www.ca.com traffic-free section between Cox Green and Knowl Hill.