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Fulbourn Windmill – Moulton Packhorse Bridge loop from Shelford

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Fulbourn Windmill – Moulton Packhorse Bridge loop from Shelford

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3.8

(4)

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Fulbourn Windmill – Moulton Packhorse Bridge loop from Shelford

05:02

85.8km

380m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 3, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 79.8 km for 250 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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901 m

DNA Pathway (Addenbrooke’s to Great Shelford)

Highlight (Segment) • Structure

Connection between Biomedical Campus and Shelford with an unfolded gene on the path. Though the paint declines (nice analogly for DNA reading faults) still impressive if you think about the amount of information stored in this relatively small gene alone.

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3.39 km

Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cycleway

Highlight • Cycleway

Wide and board view from the bridge

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9.25 km

Fulbourn Windmill

Highlight • Monument

The Windmill at Fulbourn stands on an outlier of the Gog Magog Hills 4 miles east of the City of Cambridge. Low chalk hills run to the south of it; …

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10.6 km

Turn Coffee Shop

Highlight • Cafe

Great cafe

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10.6 km

Saint Vigor, Fulbourn Parish Church

Highlight • Religious Site

There is actually a nice cafe near here but Koomot thinks there is only a church.

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14.5 km

Pub or Restaurant on High Street

Highlight • Pub

27.9 km

Half Rounds Plantation

Forest

37.3 km

Moulton Packhorse Bridge

Highlight • Historical Site

Medieval packhorse bridge beside the ford over the Kennett at Moulton. Still in use and bikeable (with a shallow step at each end of the bridge).

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46.8 km

Gifford Wood

Forest

66.4 km

Swaffham Prior Village and Twin Churches

Highlight • Historical Site

Look out for the two churches , next door to each other,

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79.9 km

Lime Kiln Close

Nature Reserve

85.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

56.8 km

23.0 km

5.08 km

920 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

70.3 km

14.3 km

856 m

374 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (110 m)

Lowest point (0 m)

Weather

Monday 31 August

22°C

11°C

0 %

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Max wind speed: 17.0 km/h

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Comments

March 30, 2025,Ride

Two punctures and a bee sting slowed us down, but otherwise this was fun.

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Fulbourn Windmill – Moulton Packhorse Bridge loop from Shelford

DNA Pathway (Addenbrooke’s to Great Shelford)

Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cycleway

Fulbourn Windmill

Turn Coffee Shop

Saint Vigor, Fulbourn Parish Church

Pub or Restaurant on High Street

Moulton Packhorse Bridge

Swaffham Prior Village and Twin Churches

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