WINCHESTER CTC Early Season 50 miles 2020 Route Sheet DATE/TIME 9.30 am, Sunday 16 February 2020 START/FINISH: Queen's Head Inn, Portsmouth Road, Fishers' Pond, B 2177 (GR 489209) TIME LIMITS: Minimum 3 hrs Maximum 5 hrs Abbreviations: T = T junction F = Fork, R = Right, L = Left, X = cross roads, SO = straight on, O = roundabout. no sp = no signpost. Place name in lower case (e.g. Bramdean) = signpost Bramdean. Place name in upper case (e.g. UPHAM) = route signposted Upham and goes to Upham Cumulative mileages and café information in italics Potential coffee stops are The Avenue Garden Centre, Lasham (1/4 mile off route) and Lasham Gliding Club (100 yards off route). See route description below for location The road surfaces are particularly poor in places – Particular care required If you cannot finish, please text or phone 07816 483 402 L from car park on B2177 Bear L in 1/3rd mile (Weston Patrick) Continue to LOWER UPHAM L at T (Basingstoke) L opposite The Alma PH ( no sp) SO at X with A339 (ELLISFIELD) L at T (UPHAM). Continue for 4 miles to AXFORD Thru UPHAM & keep L at pond (CHERITON) (road surface particularly poor) (Beware potholes and muddy road near pig L on B 3046 (CANDOVERS) farm) (Distance 30.15 miles) L at X (Winchester). Stay on thru route for 4.5 miles. SO (care fast road) at X roads (ALRESFORD). R by Woolpack Inn (Winchester) SO at A272 (ALRESFORD) (care fast road) to 2nd L at X (Itchen Abbas) CHERITON. L in 1 mile (no sp) & descend to L at T (ALRESFORD) and continue to X in ABBOTSTONE. ALRESFORD. (Distance 13 miles) Bear R at Y (ITCHEN STOKE) Continue to B 3047. (Distance 39.21 miles) R up West Street. L along Broad Street (Basingstoke). L (Alresford). Over causeway (care potholes) 1st R (no sp). Thru OLD ALRESFORD & take 1st R on Over ford – care required leaving village (WIELD). R at T (no sp) Stay on thru route for just under 4 miles to T at Stay on thru route through Ovington and UPPER WIELD. (Distance 18.43 miles) continue to A31. (Distance 41.1 miles) R (Lower Wield). L (BENTWORTH). SO (care fast road) (GANDER DOWN). 2nd R (BENTWORTH) At top of hill, L at T (no sp) onto A 272. L at T (LASHAM). (LASHAM) 1st R (Warnford). SO at X with A339 (LASHAM) (care fast road) R at X (OWSLEBURY). SO at X in LASHAM (Airfield) SO at X (OWSLEBURY) L at T (Lasham Gliding) 1st R after 30 mph sign (Morestead) - sign (For The Avenue Garden Centre, R at this almost hidden by vegetation junction for ¼ mile and Garden Centre is on R. 1st L shortly after bend (no sp) retrace to rejoin route.) L at T (no sp) and continue down Hensting Lane. (Care very poor road surface) R in 3/4 mile (Back Lane) L at junction with B3354 (For Lasham Gliding Club ignore R turn and L at traffic lights and immediately left to Finish continue for 100 yds and Gliding Club is on the FINISH : QUEEN’S HEAD PH L. Retrace to junction.) DISTANCE: 50.2 miles CONTROL OPEN 12.30 – 14.30 hours R at T in 1 mile (NASHES GREEN) Please tell marshal in pub you are back .