Round Berkshire Cycle Route - Maidenhead Loop
View to Danesfield House from Crazies Hill
Start & Finish: Maidenhead Bridge, Bridge Road, Maidenhead, SL6 8DW
Distance: 44.3 km (27.5 Miles)
Elevation change: +/- 311m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other Routes Touched (walk): Maidenhead Boundary Walk, Thames Path, The Wokingham Way, The Chiltern Way Berkshire Loop
Other Routes Touched (cycle): NCN 4, 61, Chilterns Cycleway Link
Other Routes Touched (horse): Knowl Hill Bridleway Circuit
Pubs / Cafes on route: several on Cookham High Street
Maps:
- OS Explorer Map (160) Windsor, Weybridge & Bracknell
- OS Explorer Map (171) Chiltern Hills West, Henley-on-Thames and Wallingford
- OS Explorer Map (172) Chiltern Hills East
Links: Round Berkshire Cycle Route, Maidenhead, Fifield, White Waltham, Knowl Hill, Crazies Hill, Burchett’s Green, Pinkney’s Green, Cookham
Next section: Round Berkshire Cycle Route - Windsor Loop
This is the first in a series of short trips to tackle the Round Berkshire Cycle Route in smaller sections. The full route is 140 miles from Lambourne in the west to Datchet in the east. I’ll probably do the whole route in a single trip one day, but for now I’m happy to break it into smaller sections. See the leaflet about the route for descriptions of the main points of interest.
The Maidenhead Loop was the obvious place for me to start as I grew up there and knew the lanes well. I chose the Thames bridge at Maidenhead as the starting point. There’s some free on-street parking near there and it’s a short ride from both Maidenhead and Taplow train stations.
The route is fairly well signposted with the white-on-blue route 52 numbering. I would still take a GPS or a map though as it’s easy to miss a sign. I found that out the hard way when I’d turned off my GPS to save power near Hurley and missed the turn up to Burchett’s Green.
The part to take particular attention to is the Alternative Link between Fifield and Crazies Hill. This is the part that takes you off the larger circular route to make it a smaller loop. The split is just after you pass the Fifield Inn pub on Fifield Road. Take a right on the B3024 heading west rather than east towards Windsor. The convergence with the main route is at a crossroads at Crazies Hill. The larger route will meet you from the left from Highfield Lane and you’ll take a right onto Rose Lane heading north-east.
