Cycling King Alfred’s Way 2025 | Stage 4 | Pangbourne to Farnham

Cycling King Alfred’s Way 2025

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Stage 4 : Pangbourne to Farnham : 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 4 was a 74km route Pangbourne to Farnham with some extra in/out of Reading to get some bike bits. A much cooler day, with the feel that the route was a ‘connecting’ stage. Many different animal encounters from white deer to horses

Overnight = Farnham House Hotel, Farnham
w3w = clay.ratty.node
Daily km = 74
Cumulative km : 271

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[Music] Smash that like button. Woo! Like and subscribe. The morning start. unlock your bikes and then we’ll start putting them together. Just cycling out of the really nice suburbs of Pangborn. This is where the money lives. An alpaca farm. A GMO free zone. Hello. What a nice little thing you are. Grass is always greener. There’s a horse trottting up and down the field here. I don’t know what it is. It must be wanting to get out. Here you are. Hello. Oh, it’s so nice that it’s a bit cooler today. It’s not in 30°. Should get up to mid20s. That’s a lot nicer. Thank you. Brilliant. There’s two of us right by the temps. Wow. [Music] This is what you want to see. The greatest knight who ever lived. Yeah. Crossing the temps in Reading. There we go. Overcast. Leaving a bit of reading. Going to an industrial estate. Looking for a cycle store. We need something cycle repairs. We need some bits and bobs. Day four. So, we’ve had a bit of a redirection in order to get to Halford’s to get some vehicle, get some bike parts. Um, and we’ve just stopped at Tesco to get some food and we’ll go from there and we’ll see where the rest of the day takes us. Leaving Reading by another unorthodox route because we had to go to Halford’s. back down the toe path. You Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Brilliant. Thank you. [Music] There you go. Thank you. Good. Cheers. Oh, counts are working. Okay, just going over the M4 having come out of Reading right beside the M4. I wonder if you can hire that for parties. Look at that. It’s the business. [Applause] Hello. Hello. Hello, rider. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No sweat. No sweat. Just to be safe. Yeah. Yeah. Through the countryside. This is our weak bridge. Despite everything I eat, I’m under the limit over a dual carriageway. [Applause] This is a very quiet lane with mounds of sand down the middle. all these little roads and then you come out. It’s quite a main road going into the village of Grizzly. So, we worked out we could stop at this pub on the way. It says it’s open every day. It’s closed. Oh, don’t often see this, but this is the county boundary between Barkshire and Hampshire. Stop. It’s a white deer. That is a white deer. Have you ever seen that before? Don’t see a deer. Okay. Oh, and another one comes out over a humpback bridge. We pop out at this gate, but if you look all the way through, there’s a house right down the end. Thank you. There are two of us. Thank you. Never seen one of these in the UK. That looks like a Spanish horos or a Tennessee corn hub. So that’s the Bazing Stoke Canal and we’re going to follow that to Cookham gently down the tow path Bazing Stoke Canal. We have a beautiful narrow boat working its way down. These are very low bridges for your narrow boats. And of course, if you’re by the river, you might see a heron just eaten. Now this pub was open. Nice pub. Cook them. Thank you very much. This canal is actually quite high because to our left it drops away about 50 ft. So this will be one of these massive banks on each side. Victorian constructions Cute cyclists dismount. Nah. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] What? Got an interesting thing here. Got the rope going two ways. Let you go through. Yeah. So, smash that like button. Woo! Like and subscribe.