46.9 mile clockwise loop to Water Mill Tea Rooms at Woodford Mill

Clockwise loop east to Thurning – loop south to Catworth – before back to Kettering taking in the stop at Woodford Mill.

2,148ft of climbing

Starting at Sainsbury’s Kettering

Leave Kettering out eastward to Warkton, passing Grafton Underwood to Slipton and through the town of Thrapston, before rejoining the country lanes riding out to Titchmarsh, Clopton and to Thurning, where we turn southward to Winwick, looping in Old Weston, Brington and Catworth, before aiming westward to start our loop back to Kettering via the villages of Covington, Hargrave, the outskirts of Raunds out to Denford and Ringstead, where we find ourselves arriving at Woodford Mill. After a stop to refuel and engage in conversation, we start heading back through Great Addington, onward and up and over the A14 to start the last few miles back to Kettering, via Cranford and Ise Lodge, before arriving at the finish being the same as the start.

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Coffee stop The Water Mill Tearooms, nestled along the River Nene in the village of Ringstead, Northamptonshire. The address is:

Woodford Mill,
Ringstead,
Woodford,
Kettering,
Northamptonshire,
NN14 4DU