PLEASE NOTE: this route is different from the calendar version, which uses 1.5km of the A47 overnight. Do not use the calendar version!

CTC Cambridge was established in 1921 and has always been an active club with a variety of rides on offer. In 2025, CTC Cambridge revived some audax routes from the late 90s-early 2000s. This 323km 200 mile ride is the permanent version of a calendar event added in 2026, using quiet roads throughout so that it is suitable for any time of day.

Starting at Cambridge central station, we take surprisingly quiet paths out of Cambridge and through fen edge villages. Around Mildenhall, and onto the Brecks with their wind-twisted Scots pines. Control in Swaffham. We then drop down through Norfolk and Suffolk to Southwold, home of the Adnams Brewery. Bonus prizes for anyone who makes time to visit the Under The Pier show - free entry to another perm if you send me a selfie for the website! We wind our way back through Suffolk to historic Lavenham. Then its the home run drop back into Cambridgeshire, and take the DNA path and the guided busway path back into Cambridge central station.

The route can be done in either direction, starting at any point on the route or from a nearby train station.

Controls:
0km Cambridge central railway station
78km Swaffham
169km Southwold Pier
254km Lavenham
317km Shelford railway station
323km Cambridge central railway station

Useful train stations:
Cambridge central
Cambridge south opens end June 2026
Wymondham
Stowmarket
Shelford

Cafes/village shops/toilets/water:
Please note cafes are just off-route in several towns!
0km Cambridge central station: food vans outside, usually open lunchtime to late evening
35km Mildenhall: cafes, shops off route.
78km Swaffham: cafes, shops off route.
102km Hingham sports centre: tap on front of building, cafes in village
104km Just after Hingham: sign for cooked breakfasts, but havent investigated!
113km Wymondham: cafes off route. Co-op on route.
130km Hempnall: Morrisons Daily, cafe, bakery off route.
141km Ditchingham Nisa Local just off route.
143km Silo cafe: looks like fancy coffee.
169km Southwold: toilets to L of pier. Tap on prom between beach huts. Cafes, shops on high street.
218km Debenham: L into Gracechurch Street then immediately R into Little Back Lane for toilets and Co-op
230km Tap in Stowupland cemetery on little brick shed, just opposite high school.
231km Coop at petrol station just before Stowmarket. Has loos.
234km Stowmarket: cafes, Asda with public toilets at front
236km Just outside Stowmarket, R towards Rattlesden for excellent Lakeside Cafe at Onehouse on L. Tap on black shed just past cafe.
253km Lavenham: cafes, Co-ops, public toilets in car parks suggested £1, cash or card. Northern Co-op is open later. Excellent sausage rolls from butchers next to southern Co-op.
277km Cafe 33 and shop on R
294km Balsham: Old Butchers cafe park bike in garden at back, tap, shop
301km Great Abington: cafe, shop
309km Sawston: L at traffic lights for cafes, shops. Toilets in Free Church Footprints cafe or parish council building in Link Road.

More information in the route notes and on the CTC Cambridge website.