St Peter’s Church – Quiet Sussex Lane loop from Balcombe

St Peter’s Church – Quiet Sussex Lane loop from Balcombe

Moderate

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St Peter’s Church – Quiet Sussex Lane loop from Balcombe

02:04

38.5km

630m

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: August 9, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 4.48 km for 72 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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1.06 km

Ardingly to Balcombe — Climb

Highlight (Segment) • Climb

It's up and down, or down and up, between these two villages. The route takes you past the reservoir itself but it offers up two challenging climbs if you're traversing between the two picturesque villages.

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4.52 km

St Peter’s Church

Highlight • Historical Site

Worth a detour to visit, plenty of heritage

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8.72 km

High Beech Lane Climb

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Climbing out of haywards heath on a fairly busy road

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11.4 km

Lindfield Coffee Works

Highlight • Cafe

A superb café with its own roastery, which supplies sustainably sourced coffee to many other cafes and cycling cafes in the area. The café also sponsors its own cycling team.

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11.6 km

Lindfield High Street

Highlight • Pub

Lovely old Sussex village with an avenue of Lime trees, which give the village its name (another name for Lime trees is Linden), several good pubs, a large duck-pond and …

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13.5 km

Quiet Sussex Lane

Highlight • Cycleway

A quiet lane that links up to plenty of other back roads

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17.7 km

King's Wood

Forest

21.6 km

Gill Wood

Forest

33.0 km

Ardingly Village

Highlight • Cafe

A small Sussex village with all the vital ingredients; a good cafe, a couple of pubs, a post office... as well as one of the largest showgrounds in the Southeast …

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36.6 km

Ardingly Reservoir

Highlight • Climb

A stunning reservoir lake which is great to walk around. It feels like an enchanted forest, something out of a fairy tale but there is also a great downhill followed …

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38.5 km

End point

Train Station

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