Cycling King Alfred’s Way 2025 | Stage 1 | Winchester to Amesbury

Cycling King Alfred’s Way 2025

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Stage 1 : Winchester to Amesbury : a Thru Hiker’s first multi day cycle experience

King Alfred’s Way is a 360 km predominantly off-road cycling route that officially starts at the historic Westgate, at one end of the High Street in Winchester, and finishes at the other end, under the statue of King Alfred. Our Stage 1 was a 61km route from Winchester to Amesbury (the gateway to Stonehenge) via Old Sarum. The weather was hot, the route terrain was varied, we didn’t encounter much elevation, but for us (we are not cyclists), it was a tough opening day

Overnight = Travelodge Amesbury
w3w = stole.lunge.scored
Daily km = 61
Cumulative km : 61

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[Music] Smash that like button. Woo! Like and subscribe. Yeah. How to get two bikes into the back of the car with all your stuff. Where are we going? Oh, here we go. Here’s the start. First things, get into Winchester. So, in the center of Winchester, we have Alfred, King of the West, Saxons. And there is his statue. This is really our starting point. The west gate getting into Winchester down into the city. Oh, day one. So, West Gate, which behind me, that’s our starting point. And we’ve got I don’t know about 60k to go. So, it’s taken a bit of time to get here, but we’re away. Oh, we’re back Winchester. [Music] 35 days of commamino with no aerobic exercise at all and then you start on a cycle in hot weather and it’s all aerobic. Oh well. Thank you. Yeah, cycling is very much everything in front of you and you miss everything to one side. But bit of a rocky piece. This is what we’ve been cycling through. Something called Ham Green. Just stopped to admire the view. That’s what we’re going into. Yeah. Um, would you mind going through this beautiful countryside on this farm track? Incredible greens. So that’s my big bag. Mainly has clothes in it. I think this path goes on over those two hills into the distance. Okay. The last of the river test that we go over. Fast flowing chalk stream. It looks like [Music] please stop for a short break just to admire the view. Your head’s down when you cycle. You don’t often see the views. There we are about 24k in or so. So, it’s a beautiful day. It’s hot. Is it hot? It’s hot. It’s hot. Nothing more English than a church. Houses with roses over them and over the road your local pub. The Millennium Structure. We’ve just reached a very steep uphill and that says we’re on Clarendon Way. very steep. That was Clarendon May down there, but we’re going straight on. We’re okay. Okay. So, we were trying to find the top of the hill and couldn’t really find where to pop out. So, we’ve come out through those trees and the really funny thing is there’s a trig point which is going to be a high point. [Music] A nice sign. Claron Way. But somebody’s lost their glasses. Hi. Another very straight Roman road. Just some young ones. Hello. It takes us through a vineyard. pushing shortly. Yeah. Yeah. No, you just go. I’ll follow. Thank you. This is old serum which was a Roman fort. William the Conqueror had it as a fort and it’s essentially the old town um up on the hill. So we’ll see what we can see. So huge ramparts. It’s at the top of the hill. I think it’s closed. This is inside old serum. One of the things to look at is the width of these walls. That is thick. And outside the main rampart of this section. And then you have another rampart. And in the distance, not everybody has an American Second World War plane in their garden under somebody’s house. The bridge we have to go on. And out goes the river. Uhhuh. Yeah, living the dream. Both bikes in the room. Smash that like button. Woo! Like and subscribe.