Where to go around Hemel?

[iateyoubutler]

I`m off to Hemel Hempstead this afternoon to attend a training course tomorrow, and as per usual I`m twiddling my thumbs this evening and contemplating taking the bike and going out for a few miles instead of being bored out of my brains in a hotel room.

I`m not familiar with the roads and can`t really plan a ride very easily by looking at google. Any suggestions please as to where is pleasant, or best avoided? Probably looking at a 30 miler (ish) just to pass a couple of hours

Many thanks guys

 

[Cuchilo]

Pop over to the Chilterns , use part of this route if you like . https://www.strava.com/activities/805456426

 

[iateyoubutler]

Pop over to the Chilterns , use part of this route if you like . https://www.strava.com/activities/805456426

Many thanks

 

[vickster]

Look at cycle-route.com

http://www.cycle-route.com/routes/Hertfordshire-Routes-81.html

 

[Milkfloat]

There is only one place to go on a bike. It's magic!

 

[jonny jeez]

There is only one place to go on a bike. It's magic!

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Is that the right turn roundabout thing?

 

[ianrauk]

@jayonabike may have some suggestions

 

[Milkfloat]

Is that the right turn roundabout thing?

You can approach it and handle it many different ways, but certainly you can take the exit to the right by going around 2 mini roundabouts rather than 5.

 

[jayonabike]

Head out towards Gaddesden Row, Studham, Dagnall, Ivinghoe, Aldbury, Little Gaddesden, back to Gaddesden Row then Hemel. Mainly country lanes and a couple of B roads

 

[TheDoctor]

There's always the canal towpath as well.

 

[TheDoctor]

There is only one place to go on a bike. It's magic!

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That doesn't look like the Hemel magic roundabout. I'm sure that had a stream running through it. You sure that's not Swindon?
It is some years since I went through Hemel though...

 

[jayonabike]

That's not the Hemel magic roundabout, Docs right, the Hemel one has a stream running through it

 

[jayonabike]

 

[Milkfloat]

That doesn't look like the Hemel magic roundabout. I'm sure that had a stream running through it. You sure that's not Swindon?
It is some years since I went through Hemel though...

I am ashamed of myself - I used to live in St Albans, just down the road too.

 

[TheDoctor]

If I lived in St Albans I think I'd try and forget Hemel too.
I spent three years commuting from Stevenage to Chesham.
The traffic through Hemel is imprinted on my mind. For ever.
For.
Ever.
*cries*