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The White Elephant

Cycling Route

Details
94.63 km
249 m
These fenland tracks look easy going in the summer but in the winter they are coated in the thick claggy mud deposited by the farmer's tractors.

This route sets off along the River Cam and Lode Way towards Ely - cross nature reserves and bird reserves on a well marked National Cycleway. From Ely it crosses West to St Ives and then back into the center of cambridge on the massive 'white elephant' projects of the Cambridge Guide Busway.

Perfect for cycling - this smooth cycleway is clear of traffic. Watch out after heavy rain - part of the route crosses flood plains which can be several meters underwater after weeks of rain.
Created By
Edmund Bradbury

Route and Elevation

Segments

NameDistanceElev. Diff.Avg. Grade
Sprint to the White Bridge0.37 km4 m0.9%
ditton meadows - church0.51 km7 m1.0%
The Up 'n Over0.26 km1 m0.0%
High Ditch Mid Sprint0.94 km-3 m-0.0%
SCQ to Anglesey Abbet1.75 km-5 m-0.1%
Lode to White Fen2.05 km-9 m-0.3%
Lode - Swaffham - Segment 12.88 km-5 m-0.1%
White Fen NE0.88 km2 m0.2%
Across the Fen (North East)0.56 km1 m0.2%
Bridge to Whiteway Drove0.55 km-1 m-0.2%
Whiteway Drove to Great Drove0.61 km-2 m-0.3%
Sprint to Fly-tip corner0.56 km-1 m0.0%
Fenland Orama short2.88 km-3 m-0.1%
The gravel bit0.69 km-6 m-0.7%
back hill (barton rd)0.37 km15 m3.9%
OutbackWest1.05 km-5 m-0.4%
Witcham down up1.06 km-10 m-0.3%
Michael Smiley Tyres0.27 km2 m0.8%
Sutton to Earith Roundabout6.67 km-23 m-0.2%
Out of Sutton 1.17 km-24 m-1.7%
The Earith Straight3.57 km4 m0.0%
St Ives - Fen Drayton2.65 km-7 m-0.2%
Longstanton to St. Ives8.52 km13 m0.0%
BUSWAY TT ST IVES-CAMB15.92 km14 m0.1%
Up 'n' Over the Big Ooze0.74 km-7 m-0.2%
Evel Knievel1.24 km-4 m-0.2%
Sheepshank of reverse half-Tiggy Stardust1.03 km7 m0.4%
Sprint to Swavesey0.46 km4 m0.6%
Busway Swavesey to Longstanton3.54 km-11 m-0.0%
The Ajax Sprint1.62 km8 m0.3%
Grave Redux1.83 km-9 m-0.2%
Ferocity is our Velocity0.68 km-3 m-0.4%
Guided Busway: Longstanton to Reynold's Drove1.51 km-4 m-0.2%
Nirvana0.79 km2 m0.2%
oakington to new rd1.67 km3 m0.1%
Launch from Oakington0.47 km-2 m-0.3%
bens busway to work5.33 km11 m0.1%
Busway to Girton Sprint0.53 km2 m0.3%
New Road Sprint0.39 km1 m0.1%
new road to station rd2.10 km10 m0.4%
Sprint for the those Apples!0.84 km2 m0.2%
station rd to orchard park1.46 km-7 m-0.2%
Busway Histon to Milton Road2.95 km-10 m-0.3%
Histon bridge to 1st Island0.75 km-4 m-0.2%
CRC SPRINT 0.87 km-3 m-0.4%
Milton rd to Elizabeth way1.55 km-2 m0.0%
Milton Road Buslane start to Milton Arms sprint0.41 km1 m0.2%
Milton road to Chesterton road0.40 km-3 m-0.8%
Jesus Green Kamikazi Duck Run0.29 km-2 m-0.4%
St John's/Trinity Street0.30 km-1 m0.0%