Goring Lock and Weir – Devil's Hill Climb loop from Goring & Streatley
Goring Lock and Weir – Devil's Hill Climb loop from Goring & Streatley
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Goring Lock and Weir – Devil's Hill Climb loop from Goring & Streatley
02:13
46.7km
450m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: May 7, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 22.6 km for 98 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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785 m
Goring Lock and Weir
Highlight • Settlement
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8.31 km
Three Cornered Wood
Forest
21.8 km
Parkside Wood
Forest
28.8 km
Devil's Hill Climb
Highlight (Segment) • Trail
There is some climbing to be done (clue is in the name) but it isn't terrible and it's not too long, so definitely worth choosing over the main roads.
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31.6 km
The Unicorn Pub, Sonning Common
Highlight (Segment) • Pub
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35.5 km
Sheep Sculptures at Stoke Row
Highlight • Monument
36.0 km
Maharajah's Well and the Golden Elephant Statue
Highlight • Monument
The 368-foot deep well, under its domed canopy (made by a foundry in Wallingford), was paid for by the Maharajah of Benares (now Varanasi). He had met the young Edward Reade, the local squire, who spent many years in India where among other work he helped to sink a well for a village in Benares. He told the Maharajah that drought conditions also occurred on parts of the Chilterns.
Moved by Reade's stories of water shortage in Ipsden (the parish which then included the settlement of Stoke Row) – the water had to be fetched by hand from miles away – the Maharajah paid for a well to be dug in Stoke Row, at a cost of around £400, as well as a small well-keeper's cottage and a cherry orchard. The cherries from the orchard provided an income to help pay for the well’s upkeep.
The well is 4 feet in diameter, dug by hand mostly through chalk, and is deeper that the height of two Nelson's columns. It took a year to complete and was opened on the Queen’s birthday in 1864. The well was in use for over 70 years and was a huge benefit to Stoke Row as a community.
Prince Philip's visit to mark the well's centenary in 1964 is still remembered in the hand-coloured red helicopter on every copy of the village newsletter, the Stoke Row News.
In 2008 the canopy was re-painted to restore it to its original Victorian glory.
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38.4 km
Checkendon Village Sign
Highlight • Monument
Like a painting in appearance it reflects its surroundings admirably. The format is a tribute to two local artists, one, Peggy Beeton, a distant relative of Mrs Beeton of cookery book fame, and Robert Lobley.
The tiny dated golden crown that tops the sign marks the Golden Jubilee.
Cit. oxfordmail.co.uk/news/3742783.rural-pride-display
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38.4 km
St Peter and St Paul Church, Cleeckendon
Highlight • Religious Site
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46.7 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
45.0 km
878 m
486 m
250 m
118 m
Surfaces
39.8 km
6.59 km
198 m
< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (180 m)
Lowest point (30 m)
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