Hungerford - 75 miles

Hungerford has a nice cafe and the roads are good, making this a long but worthwhile ride.

• At Lambourn ride straight across the crossroads on the B4000 and up the hill.
• Turn right after about four miles, under the motorway bridge (on a very bumpy road) to Chilton Foliat. Turning left at the bottom of the descent into the village brings you out in Hungerford.
• If you turn right at the first mini roundabout, you get onto the High Street; cross the canal bridge and the cafe is on a little footpath that doubles back on the right leading back down to the canal path.

To return home,

• Keep heading along the High Street under the railway bridge, then turn left almost immediately onto Hungerford Common, an unfenced road.
• After about a mile, keep to the right (don't take the left turn over the railway line) to Kintbury, famous as the place where Steve "Level Two" Morse mended a puncture using a dog "number two" turd.
• Bear right in Kintbury; if you find yourself crossing the canal and reaching a level crossing, you've gone wrong. On the way out of Kintbury, go left at a funny threeway junction, then just keep going past a walled house to eventually descend to the railway line. Cross the railway then turn right in Marsh Benham to come out on the A4.
• Cross straight over the A4 to Stockcross, on the B4000. Turn left then right, down a lane called I think "Snake Lane". This is very narrow, bumpy and gravelly, but is the right road nevertheless and brings you out on the Lambourn Valley road at Woodspeen.
• At Woodspeen turn right, then left after a mile (signposted to the Watermill Theatre) through Bagnor and Winterbourne to come out on the B4494.
• Turn left at the B4494, under the motorway then immediately right to Chieveley.
• Turn right here to the junction over the A34, where left through World's End to Beedon (don't take the sign to Beedon Common).
• Fork left in Beedon to Stanmore, where right to East Ilsley.
• From here the route back to Oxford is as in the West Ilsley ride.