48.24 mile anti-clockwise loop to Mint & Ginger Coffee House
Anticlockwise loop north to Hallaton – west to Kibworth – south to Kelmarsh before back to Kettering
3,052 ft of climbing
Taking in some of the steepest climbs locally at 11%
Starting at Sainsbury’s Kettering
Leave Kettering via the Rockingham Road out to the Prologics industrial area where we take the Glendon Road and head northward via Rushton hill climb, Pipewell, East Carlton, taking in the Bringhurst hill climb before decending into Great Easton. After then pushing up the 7.5% hill climb past Eyebrook Reservoir and decending into Horninghold, continuing westward onto Hallaton and stopping at Tur Langton, the Mint & Ginger Coffee House to refuel before continuing west until we reach Kibworth Harcourt, at the point when we start to aim southward, through Smeetch Westerby, Gumley, Foxton, Lubenham, Marston Trussell and climb 11% onto Sibbertoft. At this point we change our direction eastward to Kelmarsh, Harrington, Foxton and then head back to Kettering via Loddington and Thorpe Malsor, past the General Hospital before arriving at the finish being the same as the start.
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Coffee stop Mint & Ginger Coffee House, is situated in the idyllic courtyard of The Manor, in the village of Tur Langton. The address is,
Mint & Ginger Coffee House,
Main Street,
Tur Langton,
Leicester,
LE8 0
