WEST BERKS PARISH OLYMPIC CHALLENGE!
New for 2024, a series of routes devised for Ride+Stride by the team at St Nicolas, Newbury. They all take in St Nic’s but any church can become the start and finish point. There is a live link on each PDF to the ‘Ride with GPS’ website so you can load the route into your navigation device:
Ride Bronze – 5 churches, 16 miles
Ride Silver – 10 churches, 26 miles
Ride Gold – 25 churches, 63 miles
Ride Double Gold – 50 churches, 133 miles
Stride Bronze – 3 churches, 5.3 miles
Stride Silver – 4 churches, 9 miles
Stride Gold – 5 churches, 11.4 miles
Churches of the Lambourn Valley – a 10 mile walk along the beautiful Lambourn Valley Way visiting seven historic churches
Newbury Church Walk – a 5 mile circular walk around the churches of Newbury, starting and finishing at St Mary’s, Shaw – a 10 mile walk along the beautiful Lambourn Valley Way visiting seven historic churches
Wokingham Town Walk – a gentle 2.5 mile walk round the churches in Wokingham town centre
West Downlands – 8 village churches in the beautiful landscape of the Berkshire Downs
Reading Town Walk – visit some or all of 14 Reading churches and chapels, compiled in 2017 but still just as good!
A Walk from Caversham to Tilehurst – taking in 15 churches in total
Binfield Cycle – an easy cycle route round Binfield, the Walthams, Shottesbrooke, Ruscombe,Twyford and Hurst, also compiled in 2017