Knights Templar Compasses Event Details| Audax UK - The Long Distance Cyclists' Association

Knights Templar Compasses Witham Grant Huggins

100Km

Summary

104Km cycling event starting from Witham.

Controls at

Start
Margaretting, Controller Stamp at village sign
Littley Green, Compasses Inn, Controller Stamp
Coggeshall
Witham
Plus 3 information controls

E-Brevet permitted.

Description

The fourth of ACME's Winter 100k Brevet Series. A themed 104k tour of Knights Templar related locations. Again, an opportunity to ECE for some winter points.|Ridden all 4 in the Winter Series? Collect a shiny!
The official start & arrivee is The Battesford Court Wetherspoons pub in Newland Street, good location for breakfast before and post ride refreshments. Early lunch or warming tea/coffee & cake at the the Lordship Tea Room in Writtle. Control at The Compasses in Littley Green and maybe pause for a refreshment. Call in to the Cressing Temple Barns for afternoon cake, a location heavily steeped in Knights Templar legend. Passing a Square & Compasses, narrowly missing a second Compasses and passing a third gives a full house of compasses pubs on this Essex Mystery tour.
There will be car parking available at The Labour Hall, Collingwood Road CM8 2EE. A ú1 donation to be collected on the day which represents excellent value for money for all day parking in Witham. Frequent train services from London (check for strikes and engineering works) and Norwich/Ipswich/Colchester can also get you to Witham with minimum fuss.
New this year is validation by e-brevet if you want to embrace the tech, visit https://eb.audax.uk/home and follow the instructions there. Enter in the usual way here, then sometime before the start download the E-Brevet for this ride, set the Brevet Code on your E-Brevet App to 23-204 and then click 'Download Brevet'.

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