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Arena Circular (Waterlink & Palace)

A loop from Croydon Arena using the Waterlink Way, Crystal Palace Park & Crystal Palace LTN.

Penge rapid

The fastest way to Penge, no main roads or parks involved.

This uses the Cambridge Road railway underpass and then follows back streets north towards Penge High Street - the whole route takes under 15 minutes!

Watch out for the one-way system north of Elmers End Road on your return trip. It can be pretty confusing, but if you follow one of the cross streets (Avenue or Pelham) you'll soon find a road you can use.

Penge Parklife Part 2

The scenic route back from Penge to Palace.

This uses the Waterlink Way - I've mapped the unofficial and more direct one, please give way to pedestrians if you're using the allotments path south of Cator Park; Churchfields Road / Beck Lane is a bit of a rat run & has trucks coming and going from Churchfields recycling centre, so I've routed it via Churchfields Rec and Maberley Fields instead. There are crossings of Elmers End Road at both Beck Lane and Ancaster Road, and short stretches of shared pavement to access the Country Park from there.

Penge Parklife Part 1

Penge is one of those awkward journeys from Crystal Palace that most people drive. It's less than three miles, but the public transport connections don't join up very well, the main roads are unpleasant and intimidating to cycle, and it's just a bit too far to walk unless you've got a more relaxed schedule than most do nowadays.

 But it turns out - if you know what you're doing - it's an absolute piece of cake on a bike. (Did someone say cake?). Thanks to LB Bromley's recent upgrades to the junction at the eastern end of Crystal Palace Park - there's a brand new "Toucan" crossing ("two can" cross - cyclists and pedestrians - traffic engineer humour apparently.. yeah me neither), and the pavement along the north side of Penge High Street has been designated shared-use from there to Crampton Road.

So you've got an 8-80 standard route all the way from Auckland Road up to Penge East. From there you can either use the footbridge, or dog-leg around - Queen Adelaide Road, Albert Road - to work your way up to Lennard Road if lugging bikes over the railway footbridge isn't an option.

From there it's a straight run along Lennard Road to the Waterlink Way at Cator Park. Lennard can be busy/fast at times but the sight lines are OK & you don't tend to get many trucks. It could do with some upgrades though, if anyone from Bromley Council is reading this.

In part 2 I'll take a look at the alternative route back to Palace, via the Waterlink Way and Country Park...

Grangewood to South Croydon easy peasy

Central Croydon doesn't have the best reputation as a place to ride a bike. Mostly thanks to the 1960s era urban motorways that chop the place up somewhat.

But it's actually pretty easy if you know what you're doing. This route uses the Holmesdale Road LTN (past CPFC stadium) and avoids all the main roads - note the Bridge Place underpass at the end of Gloucester Road (turn right off Gloucester before it ramps up to the bridge), or if that's too shady for your liking, there's an alleyway at the end of Bridge Place which leads to a zebra crossing opposite Lansdowne Road. Whitworth, Gloucester and Lansdowne can get a bit busy at rush hour, but I've tested this one with a 12 year old and it's quite manageable.

It's 20 minutes from Grangewood to central Croydon this way at easy pace - which is quicker than driving, by the time you've parked up and walked from the multi-storey. The return trip is uphill so add on five minutes for that.

If you're coming from Auckland Road ish instead of Grangewood, use Southern Avenue to get to Holmesdale Road.

If you're headed more towards central Croydon than south, when you get to George Street (by East Croydon station), instead of turning left, cross on to the pavement opposite the end of Dingwall Rd, you'll find an alley that leads through Croydon College and brings you out in front of Fairfield Halls on a nice shiny new cycle path.

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