Kentish and Camden Town

Portnoy
Portnoy Posts: 175
edited July 2008 in Commuting chat
I'm travelling from Muswell Hill. Just started work in Oxford Circus. please tell me there's a route that means I avoid kentish town and camden town. I hate those main roads they're so busy.

Please help!

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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    They're not so bad when you get used to them.
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  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    Highgate / Hampstead / Belsize Park / Primrose Hill / round Regents Park
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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    el_presidente wrote:
    Highgate / Hampstead / Belsize Park / Primrose Hill / round Regents Park

    That certainly is the scenic route.
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  • sem69
    sem69 Posts: 106
    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en ... =UTF8&z=13
  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    dondare wrote:
    el_presidente wrote:
    Highgate / Hampstead / Belsize Park / Primrose Hill / round Regents Park

    That certainly is the scenic route.

    by scenic, do you mean 'painfully hilly?' ;)
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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    patchy wrote:
    dondare wrote:
    el_presidente wrote:
    Highgate / Hampstead / Belsize Park / Primrose Hill / round Regents Park

    That certainly is the scenic route.

    by scenic, do you mean 'painfully hilly?' ;)

    Yup.
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  • Beardy10
    Beardy10 Posts: 115
    It doesn't need tobe that hilly.

    If you cut out the Hampstead/Highgate bit by heading further south then heading west you will avoid the sodding great hill that Hampstead and Highgate sit on.

    From Muswell Hill head further south towards the bottom of Archway and then head West through Tufnell Park and then across to Belsize Park and and then down through Primrose Hill to Regents Park.

    Basically be leaving heading west until you are further south you will avoid the hill. I am sure you can find a road avoiding coming down Archway Road and along Junction Road.
  • SmellTheGlove
    SmellTheGlove Posts: 697
    I'm sure the OP doesn't mind a climb, having chosen a perch at Muswell upon the Hill :) ; the heath route looks good. Only trouble I find with "cross country" routes to town is they're generally so bloody narrow that they can hardly be rated better than the mains (Archway> Kentish> Camden).
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Kentish Town's not that bad, I manage it daily without any problems. Other than the time I overtook a van on the outside and had a very minor collision with a Golf in the process of a u-turn. Not getting out of the SPDs quick enough meant I was straight over, fortunately my bruised pride was the only damage.

    Anyway, I digress. Camden isn't an issue heading south because you can skirt round the top of it. Google maps won't tell you, but cyclists can turn right (legally, if that's a concern) from Oval Road and head towards Regent's Park.

    A colleague does Muswell Hill to our place near Tottenham Court Rd, I'll check with him next week for any suggestions he might have.
  • JavaBob
    JavaBob Posts: 148
    Those main roads are mainly bus lanes. You know how long you have to wait for a bus at a stop. when you are going in the same direction it is even longer. If I take your route I get overtaken a few times but it is generally a good route.

    Also I think main roads are safer. Cars rarely crash into things that are in front of them. It is the scenic routes where cars come from all angles that causes the problems.
  • FrankM
    FrankM Posts: 129
    I used to live near the Broadway and I'd cycle over to East Finchley then up Bishops Avenue and across the top of the Heath (it's flat), then down Fitzjohn's Avenue, Avenue Road and around Regent's Park.

    On the way back, I'd cycle by the side of Regent's Park, through Primrose Hill and Chalk Farm, then along Mansfield Road to Gospel Oak and up West Hill before going down Southwood Lane, past Highgate tube station and on to Muswell Hill. West Hill is steep but you get used to it quickly and once you're at the top, it's down hill all the way.
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    FrankM wrote:
    I used to live near the Broadway and I'd cycle over to East Finchley then up Bishops Avenue and across the top of the Heath (it's flat), then down Fitzjohn's Avenue, Avenue Road and around Regent's Park.

    On the way back, I'd cycle by the side of Regent's Park, through Primrose Hill and Chalk Farm, then along Mansfield Road to Gospel Oak and up West Hill before going down Southwood Lane, past Highgate tube station and on to Muswell Hill. West Hill is steep but you get used to it quickly and once you're at the top, it's down hill all the way.

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