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This is a cue sheet for the Sonning, Hambleden Valley Bicycle Map. You can print it out for later use.

Cumulative Distance Where Notes Direction Elevation
0.26km 0.26km Sonning Common Parking at the Village hall or at the parade of shops next to it ENE 61° 93m
1.25km 0.99km SA at X-roads WSW 229° 94m
2.14km 0.89km Kidmore End Right at x-roads NW 296° 96m
2.62km 0.48km Continue on Wood Lane NW 310° 104m
3.58km 0.96km SA at X-roads onto Wyfold Rd, marked as a "Quiet Lane" NNW 337° 104m
5.14km 1.56km SA at X-Roads NNW 346° 134m
7.76km 2.62km Stoke Row Left on B-road through Stoke Row. Don't forget to stop at the Maharaja's Well, provided to the local people by the Maharajah of Benares (now Varanasi) in Northern India in 1864, after learning of the water shortages villages faced in the Chilterns. WNW 289° 175m
9.84km 2.08km Ipden Heath Right at triangle junction, following road to Nuffield NNE 13° 203m
12.14km 2.3km Nuffield Follow road around to right, with golf course on your left. E 69° 210m
13.05km 0.91km A4130 Gangsdown Hill Turn right onto A4130, then shortly afterwards left onto Huntercombe End lane ESE 108° 208m
14.72km 1.67km Park Corner Left onto B481 at T-junction NNW 351° 199m
16.72km 2km Cookley Green Follow B480 until you reach next X-roads with Patemore Ln NE 33° 223m
17.6km 0.87km Cookley Green At Jnc with Patermore Lane, take second road on right down smaller lane past Lower Greenfield Park. Road climbs fairly steadily hereabouts ENE 50° 222m
20.47km 2.88km Christmas Common Shortly after Fox and Hounds PH turn R by grass triangle towards Northend and Turville. This is the start of your descent, and is on a narrow, scenic road with overhanging beech trees and great views across fields and valleys. ESE 103° 241m
22.53km 2.06km Lovely scenery, very quiet road, heading downhill; follow Holloway Lane, ignoring turn to left in Northend SE 122° 216m
26.15km 3.62km Turville Very pretty village, used in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Vicar of Dibley. Look out for the mill on the hill on your left, used in the film. SE 124° 86m
26.63km 0.48km Left at X-roads, start climbing a bit to Fingest E 74° 80m
27.11km 0.48km Fingest Right just before pub, dropping downhill towards Skirmett and Hambledon S 176° 86m
28.23km 1.12km Skirmett Keep going downhill S 178° 70m
31.81km 3.59km Hambleden Reaching level ground now; the village is off to your left, and has been used as a backdrop for many films and TV series, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 101 Dalmatians, Sleepy Hollow and the New Avengers, Band of Brothers, A Village Affair, Poirot, Rosemary & Thyme and Down to Earth. S 170° 60m
33.16km 1.35km Jnc with A4155 This road is too busy to cycle on, but there's an alternative route along the Thames path which is all-weather surfaced. Cross the road, and look for a Public Footpath sign in front of you; dismount and wheel your bike along this. SW 205° 35m
33.49km 0.32km Weir over Thames You can wheel your bike over the weir on a footpath; it's just wide enough for two people, with no steps. NNW 329° 33m
35.4km 1.92km Follow the path by the side of the river back to Henley; it is gravel or tarmac because the Regatta uses it each year. SSW 202° 33m
37.45km 2.04km Henley Cross the river on the bridge W 264° 32m
39.51km 2.06km Harpsden Very scenic hereabouts, but your climb is about to start W 260° 40m
44.28km 4.77km Right onto Blounts Court Rd NNW 317° 87m
45.55km 1.26km Sonning Common You are back! Well done! WSW 246° 91m