Cycling King Alfred’s Way 2025 | Stage 2 | Amesbury to Ogbourne St George

Cycling King Alfred’s Way 2025

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Stage 2 : Amesbury to Ogbourne St George : 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 2 was a 74km route from Amesbury to Ogbourne St George. The weather was again very hot, the route terrain was varied, we visited Stonehenge and Avebury and spent 60% of the day getting around the Salisbury Plain military area. The day was long (we are not cyclists), and we drank 4-5L of water. It was a tough day

Overnight = The Well Inn, Ogbourne St George
w3w = crisis.onions.guard
Daily km = 74
Cumulative km : 135

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[Music] disappearing. Smash that like button. Woo! Like and subscribe. The start of a new day. Where do you pack everything? Yeah, obviously the the bike’s had a wash. Yes. Uh breakfast of champions at Greg’s Bacon Bap. It’s a huge plane. And in the middle is Stonehenge. Coming down one of the paths. Not sure whe this is an avenue, but there are certainly barrerows which are ancient burial grounds around. There’s mom. Yeah. Talking about you. And there your two little ones. This is how close you can get to Stonehenge without paying. There’s a green path that goes all the way around. You can’t actually get to it. So Stonehenge and we’re just cycling by over the Hillstone and off to Stonehenge. The reality is I’m on a path. That’s what you walk on. And that’s how close you get to Stonehenge. And these people make sure you don’t go on the grass. So, I’m doing a zoom from here instead of from that green. And there you see Stonehenge. Yep. On the edge of the military. So we have to go that way down there. Boundary track. This is the boundary to Ssbury plane military. So, got some nice signs here about tanks and munitions and it’s a firing range and keep outs. Then it directs us onto this military road. Horrible. We have to go that way. [Applause] Here we go. Allowed to go through. Subject to the flag. Warning to the public. It might explode. Not going that way. We’re going through there. Wow. Day two. Got to be a good cyclist to do this in two days. And we’re taking six or five. But uh yeah, it’s hot. It’s very hot. Today is supposed to be the hottest day in June. So, got to Stonehenge pretty early. It’s really funny that the freebie path on the outside is only a couple of meters away from the path you pay a fortune for. So, you can get reasonable pictures. But we’re making our way around the military camp. It’s absolutely huge this one. Uh cuz it’s training ground for camp for tanks and so forth. So, so let’s see where the rest of the day takes us. can hear gunfire in the uh distance there. But we cut across this corner of the outskirts of the training area. And uh in theory, you have to give way to tanks. Although I probably would stop for a rest. But looking out there, the red flags. We can hear vehicle movements going through the middle. [Applause] Looking down the valley. A dead German paratrooper. 5th of September 93. H. We’re fairly close to where they hit. It’s completely flat. Yeah. Bound to be the back wheel, but we got spare tubes. We’re not going to go and see this horse, but there it is. A happy village sign. Hey, welcome everybody. And in the distance is the horse Kennal. I imagine some of these are fairly permanent. Veil of pey long barrerows. And here’s a long barrerow. Hottest day of the year. And we’re coming into these chalk hills which we got to go up and over. Halfway up Tanhill. Still for a rest. Look at the scenery. absolutely shattered. I know we got like 20k to go. I’m tired already, but you can’t choose what days. You can’t choose what the weather is on the days you go. And we’ve got the two hottest days in June on record. Oh well. This is the area we’re cycling through. Chalk. and very little. That is a beautiful old building. All in stone, thatched roof. Unbelievable. It’s their It’s the chalk pond empty. Wow. But those are fairly good-looking plants. So it couldn’t have been empty for long. Beautiful way in. Oh, what lovely plants. Look at these holly hawks. A brief standing stones. I came here two or three years ago doing the Ridgeway Walk. This was the start of the Ridgeway Walk. So, a 100mile trek following a 3,000-y old path. But these are the standing stones. Not the concrete oblits between them, but these things. There are so many standing stones in this part of Wiltshire. Artificial hills, little hills. It’s standing stones in you see in this little valley here. So we’ve come from down there in Avery down that way is what where you would come if you’d been on the ridgeway and we’ve now met up with a ridgeway and I remember a couple of these little hills with trees on the right. Probably the second one we come to is where I camped disappearing. Okay. Been through a military site, not Area 51, but out here you get crop circles. Might not get another in the distance shot, but there is a hill for we’re going to cycle through. really says just four miles. It says that’s all we’ve got. We’re at the top of a hill in the middle of a fort. It’s difficult to see anything about the fort, but you can see the mound rampart protective wall all the way around. Oh yeah. Ridgeway. Never been through cows on a bike. This will be an interesting experience. It’s okay. It’s all right. It’s all right. Hello, cows. Bye-bye, cows. This is our village. This is where our accommodation is for the night. Rather appropriate. Our room is called Stonehenge. Smash that like button. Like and subscribe.