Hills near Norwich?

dave milne

Hi,

I am at my in-laws this weekend and need to do a training ride starting and finishing in Norwich. Plenty of countryside that's not an issue but are there any decent hills around as it all seems extremely flat?

Cheers, Dave

roger_merriman

need to look at some maps but probably you'd want to be looking north/east ie away from the fens. even then unlikely to be that steep at most rolling.

BMX Bear

Head out to the North Norfolk coast, around Sheringham, there is some decent hills out there, out of West Runton back up to the main road, out of Sheringham up to Sheringham Park, out of Weybourne up to High Kelling, out of Cley towards High Kelling.

Alternative would be to ride up Gas Hill in Norwich about 20 times.

Ask the boys at Streetlife Cycles, there's usually a ride leaving there on a Sunday morning.

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=sherigha&countryCode=GB#map=52.93208,1.20788|14|4&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:52.9415:1.21028:17|sherigha|Sheringham,%20Station%20Road,%20North%20Norfolk

dave milne

cheers guys

bompington

I think the correct answer is "no"

markos1963

In Norwich you've got Gas Hill, Ketts Hill and Mousehold all within half a mile of each other. Head up to the North Norfolk coast and there's more. West Runton up to Roman Camp is over a mile at around 10%, similar is Sheringham to Pretty Corner(A148) Plenty around Weybourne, Cley and Holt although nothing too taxing or long just a bit sharp in places. A good route would be to head up to Holt from Norwich then down to Cley on the coast. Follow the coast road and you can take in some of the listed climbs then carry on along the coast to about Happisburgh then head back inland to Norwich.

BMX Bear

There is a ride on Sunday from Streetlife in Norwich, they guy's were talking about doing 70 miles or so. Usually leave about 7.00'ish give them a ring to check.

Might see you there.

Eskimo427

Why not take a drive along the A11 and visit Thetford Forest.

Gass Hill................that brings back some memories!!!

dave milne

BMX Bear wrote:

There is a ride on Sunday from Streetlife in Norwich, they guy's were talking about doing 70 miles or so. Usually leave about 7.00'ish give them a ring to check.

Might see you there.

I'm doing my ride Saturday so not to be alas.

Thanks again for all the suggestions, even a couple of hills to break up the monotony will all be welcome

dave milne

Check my route - have I missed any obvious ones?

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Norwich-Circular

markos1963

dave milne wrote:

Check my route - have I missed any obvious ones?

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Norwich-Circular

Top route, just about spot on for the best hills and scenery

dave milne

markos1963 wrote:

dave milne wrote:

Check my route - have I missed any obvious ones?

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Norwich-Circular

Top route, just about spot on for the best hills and scenery

cheers for the info

dave milne

markos1963 wrote:

In Norwich you've got Gas Hill, Ketts Hill and Mousehold all within half a mile of each other. Head up to the North Norfolk coast and there's more. West Runton up to Roman Camp is over a mile at around 10%, similar is Sheringham to Pretty Corner(A148) Plenty around Weybourne, Cley and Holt although nothing too taxing or long just a bit sharp in places. A good route would be to head up to Holt from Norwich then down to Cley on the coast. Follow the coast road and you can take in some of the listed climbs then carry on along the coast to about Happisburgh then head back inland to Norwich.

good ride, I'll contest the gradient up to the roman camp though, it can't have been more than 8 I didn't have to use the small chain ring

markos1963

dave milne wrote:

markos1963 wrote:

In Norwich you've got Gas Hill, Ketts Hill and Mousehold all within half a mile of each other. Head up to the North Norfolk coast and there's more. West Runton up to Roman Camp is over a mile at around 10%, similar is Sheringham to Pretty Corner(A148) Plenty around Weybourne, Cley and Holt although nothing too taxing or long just a bit sharp in places. A good route would be to head up to Holt from Norwich then down to Cley on the coast. Follow the coast road and you can take in some of the listed climbs then carry on along the coast to about Happisburgh then head back inland to Norwich.

good ride, I'll contest the gradient up to the roman camp though, it can't have been more than 8 I didn't have to use the small chain ring

You're a better climber than me my man, I'm on the 34/25 all the way. I did say that West Runton was AROUND 10%( just trying to big up the ride) :oops: