Stroud Valleys Cycle Campaign

Stroud District Cycle Map

What is the aim of producing the Stroud District cycle map?

The map has been produced to encourage and promote cycling, both as a means of transport and of leisure. The map covers the whole area, from Cranham in the north to Hillesley in the south; from Arlingham and Wanswell in the west to Bisley and Miserden in the east. All roads are colour coded, according to five levels of cycle-ability, from “roads fit for a beginner” to “roads only to be attempted by the experienced!”.

In particular, we would hope to get more children cycling to school, to get more employees cycling to work, to increase the overall fitness of the local population, and to reduce the use of private cars and their associated pollution for some trips.

Most new cyclists quote traffic density and traffic speed as major fears. The colour-coded roads representing the degree of experience needed to cycle them will enable people to plan a safe and appropriate route from their starting point to destination, using roads which are likely to be appropriate to their skills.

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How to use the map

The purpose of the map is to help you plan your route according to your own cycling ability. Traffic-free paths and pavements are shown in dark green. Roads are graded from ‘quieter/easier’ to ‘busier/more difficult’ along a green to yellow to orange to pink to red spectrum. If you are a beginner, you might want to plan your journey along mainly green and yellow roads. With confidence and increasing experience, you should be able to tackle the orange roads, and then the busier pinky red and darker red roads.

The Stroud district is pretty hilly, and we use height shading to show the lie of the land. We have also used arrows > and >> (pointing downhill) to mark hills that cyclists are going to find fairly steep and very steep.

We hope you will be able to use the map to plan cycling routes from your home to school, college and workplace. We also hope that you will be able to see that it is possible to use your bike for other short journeys - to the shops, to the village hall, to the leisure centre, and so on. We also give a list of places of interest that are within cycling distance.

We hope you liked the map and found it useful and easy to use. If you have any comment to make (eg to report any errors you find, or to suggest additions, deletions or improvements), please email: tony.partridge@virgin.net

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Last Updated: April, 2008