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Barton Road Cycle Path – Madingley Hill loop from Haslingfield

Barton Road Cycle Path – Madingley Hill loop from Haslingfield

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Barton Road Cycle Path – Madingley Hill loop from Haslingfield

01:17

32.3km

120m

Road cycling

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 21, 2026

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2.04 km

Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory

Highlight • Structure

Radio interferometry started in the mid-1940s on the outskirts of Cambridge, but with funding from the Science Research Council and a corporate donation of £100,000 from Mullard Limited, a leading commercial manufacturer of thermionic valves.

Construction of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory commenced at Lords Bridge Air Ammunition Park,[1] a few kilometres to the west of Cambridge.

The observatory was founded under Martin Ryle of the Radio-Astronomy Group of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and was opened by Sir Edward Victor Appleton on 25 July 1957. This group is now known as the Cavendish Astrophysics Group.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullard_Radio_Astronomy_Observatory)

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6.02 km

Barton Road Cycle Path

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Recently resurfaced so much better to use.

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8.45 km

Selwyn College, University of Cambridge

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George Augustus Selwyn was the first Bishop of New Zealand 1841-68, and at the end of his life, Bishop of Lichfield (1868-78). He helped to create not only the Church in, but also the Dominion of New Zealand; a big, powerful, controversial, fearless man. His work in New Zealand and his personality created an extraordinary impression among the Victorians. He was one of the great men of his generation. Charles Kingsley expressed what many people felt when, in his dedication of Westward Ho! (1855) he paid tribute to George Augustus Selwyn, and Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, as "pure and heroic" examples of the highest type of English virtue. The name 'Selwyn College' first occurs as a suggestion made very soon after his death on 11 April 1878, in a committee to consider how he might suitably be remembered.
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Selwyn himself had wished to see university education extended to many who were not able to afford it. The founders saw the expense of Victorian Oxford and Cambridge, and were ahead of their time in wanting to enable poorer students to attend. In those days there were no grants from public money, and few scholarships from private endowment. They determined therefore that living should be inexpensive. They wished also that the College should be as Christian in its tradition as befitted the memorial to a great bishop. When they issued an appeal for money, they laid it down that "the distinctive features of the proposed college would be that is should be founded on the broad but definite basis of the Church of England, neither less nor more; and further, that its aim should be to encourage habits of simple living, and to develop the Christian character in its students".

(sel.cam.ac.uk/about/selwyn-history)

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8.96 km

Cobbett’s Corner

Forest

16.6 km

Madingley Hill

Highlight (Segment) • Climb

Climbs 30m in 800m with the steepest section in the middle - a good, sharp test. If descending, watch out for the mini-roundabout junction at the bottom past the church.

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23.5 km

Greenwich Meridian Line Marker

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You can find similar markers on lots of roads in the area that cross the meridian line.

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32.3 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

15.5 km

14.1 km

2.50 km

208 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

29.8 km

2.42 km

< 100 m

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Friday 28 August

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Barton Road Cycle Path – Madingley Hill loop from Haslingfield

Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory

Barton Road Cycle Path

Selwyn College, University of Cambridge

Madingley Hill

Greenwich Meridian Line Marker

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