You can cycle from Abbey Wood in south east London to Plumstead, entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 2.3km long (1.4 miles) and makes use of the quiet filtered backstreets between the two town centres
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I also highly recommend the Safe Cycle London map for route planning, which is compiled by @SafeCycleLDN on twitter:
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13 Comments
you should have used the ridge way
SE London needs more of this, lewisham council is way behind the curve. By the way, I saw an old dear (65+) cruising down C4 on an electric scooter with a shopping bag on the handle while happily smoking a fag. It truly is for everyone, beautiful in its own way.
As a very nervous cyclist, your videos are so useful!
I don't suppose you have / would you be able to make a video of a route between Deptford and Camberwell?
One of my regular cycle routes. Used it going the other way this evening. The missing bollard in Barth Road has been replaced, but is missing again after a few weeks. Some drivers are going through, but other drivers don't thinking there is a camera! I sometimes use Marmadon Road/Bracondale Road/Abbey Grove which is parallel to Brookdene/Blithdale/Abbey Wood Road. This route passing under the Eysham Drive Road Bridge that also goes over the railway line. Ridgeway is good if using gravel tyres, but not for road bike tyres!
Crazy how clam those roads look and feel.
Thank you for this, I am new to cycling and your videos help me a lot with my route planning. I would love to see more routes from Abbey Wood particularly using ridgeway.
Very interestimg Video….I staied at Abbey Wood campsite a coupe of years ago and Wanderer, how about visiting Lobdon by bike in the future
Wunder and London
Absolutely loved this! It's far from being a trek in Nature, as some routes can be, but this proved that even straight and otherwise unremarkable streets can be made safe and efficient avenues for cycling. As someone now mid Seventies, albeit still an avid distance cyclist, watching these vids is like peering into the wishing well to see how I could get along if I were back in London (I've become acclimatised to cycling on the right side of the road) and a route like that would be very simple to handle. It's not the first level of mental inversion that's the challenge, it's the complex secondary ones on top that makes for accidents in moments of reflex actions.
Streets like in this vid would be excellent for rebuilding confidence and familiarisation while still being relaxing.
Btw: So many of these vids have me poring over the maps to not only follow the route, but to see the surrounding area. I had no idea that Abbey Wood has such a lovely large wooded area adjacent. Gosh…'Abbey Wood'…duh!
Many thanks!
The ridgeway though not tarmaced is hard pack fine gravel that I have no problem cycling along on 25mm tyres on my Road bike. On a hybrid it’s even easier
3:09 Nice! Someone that likes his classic cars. 👍
Good route. There's no reason why parallel routes can't be LTN'd.
Add one vote for Plumstead to Woolwich. I grew up near Plumstead Common and can barely recognise Woolwich these days.
Abbey Wood (or Thamesmead) to Bexleyheath would be both useful and I suspect quite a challenge. The ridge capped by Shooters Hill makes all cycling round thataway 'interesting'! 🙂
Personally I like gravel paths. My tires are 35mm I think. It's only a problem for those with very thin wheels.