Who doesn't love Fish & Chips by the seaside!

This round trip starts from Tesco’s in Hampton Peterborough where you have plenty of parking to meet up with friends & can fuel up ready for an exhilarating ride.

As you leave the fuel station there is a short run though a built up area before you hit the countryside and the flat of the fens. The Fenlands, is a coastal plain in eastern England. This naturally marshy region supports a rich ecology and numerous species, and helps absorb storms. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels and man-made rivers (dykes and drains) and automated pumping stations.

There are four vibrant market towns – Whittlesey, Chatteris, March & Wisbech all rich in history. We ride through Whittlesey which before the fens were drained was an island of dry ground. Excavations of nearby Flag Fen indicate thriving local settlements as far back as 1000 BC. At Must Farm quarry, a Bronze Age settlement is described as "Britain's Pompeii” due to its relatively good condition. In 2016 it was being excavated by the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Archaeological Unit. At Must Farm at least five homes of 3,000 years in age have been found, along with Britain's most complete prehistoric wooden wheel, dating back to the late Bronze Age. (Waypoint 5)

Bypassing the market town Kings Lynn which is situated at the mouth of the River Great Ouse as it discharges in to the Wash. During the 14th century, Lynn ranked as England's most important port. It was considered as vital to England in the Middle Ages as Liverpool was during the Industrial Revolution. (Waypoint 15)

As we continue along the A149 approximately 5 miles you will see signs for Castle Rising, a small village which is dominated by the castle. The village is a conservation area. It includes a fine example of Norman architecture in the church, built in the local and very distinctive local carrstone and flint. The village appeared in the 1985's Oscar-winner 'Out Of Africa', where the village appeared as a Danish village. (Waypoint 16)

We then see Sandringham, best known as the location of Sandringham House and its estate, a favoured holiday home of Queen Elizabeth II and several of her predecessors. Near to the house is the Royal Stud, a stud farm that houses many of the royal horses. The village was the birthplace of Diana, Princess of Wales. (Waypoint 17)

Now on the coast road, next stop Hunstanton, a popular destination for holiday makers & day trippers alike. Facing west across the Wash it is one of the few places on the east coast where the sun sets over the sea. (Waypoint 19)

Continuing along the windy narrow coast road to Holkham Hall an 18th-century country house set In over 3000 acres of land, one of England’s finest examples of the Palladian revival style of architecture. (Waypoint 21)

Next stop Wells-Next-The-Sea for lunch, fish & chips is my recommendation from the award winning French’s just opposite the Quay, where there is a public carpark, this is a pay & display so please check if you need to pay before leaving your vehicle. (Waypoint 22).

Heading out of Wells we ride through the village of Little Walsingham famous for its religious shrines in honour of the Virgin Mary. It also contains the ruins of two medieval monastic houses. (Waypoint 25)

As we head out of Norfolk in to Suffolk to the market town of Newmarket the birthplace & global centre of thoroughbred horse racing (Waypoint 41)

Heading back to Cambridgeshire we ride through the cathedral city of Ely. The city's origins lay in the foundation of an abbey in 673 which was destroyed in 870 by Danish invaders and rededicated to Etheldreda in 970 by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester. The abbots of Ely then accumulated such wealth in the region that in the Domesday survey (1086) it was the "second richest monastery in England". The first Norman bishop, Simeon, started building the cathedral in 1083. The octagon was rebuilt by sacrist Alan of Walsingham between 1322 and 1328 after the collapse of the original nave crossing on 22 February 1322. Ely's octagon is considered "one of the wonders of the medieval world" (Waypoint 48)

Returning back to Tesco’s in Peterborough there is a Café to relax & reflect on your day.