Cambridgeshire and Essex, England
Cambridge to Finchingfield through the Essex Uplands
29 miles49 minPoint-to-point
Remapped / DiscoverGood roads.
Photo: @ Fabian Musto / GeographGood roads.
Great escapes.
Scenic drives, unexpected stops and a reason to take the long way home.
Where will the road take you?
A change of scenery.
From mountain passes to quiet country lanes. Pick a place and see what’s around the next bend.
Your time. Your kind of drive.
There’s a road for that.
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Hampshire, England
The A32: Alton through the Meon Valley to Wickham
21 miles33 minPoint-to-point
Ceredigion and Powys, Wales
Cambrian Uplands: Aberystwyth to Rhayader
36 miles54 minPoint-to-point
Powys and Blaenau Gwent, Wales
B4560 Llangynidr Mountain and Usk Valley Loop
23 miles55 minCircular
Dorset, England
Purbeck: Corfe Castle and Swanage Loop
13 miles24 minCircular
Northumberland, England
Hadrian’s Wall Military Road Loop
39 miles58 minCircular
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Cambridge to Finchingfield through the Essex Uplands ↗The A32: Alton through the Meon Valley to Wickham ↗Cambrian Uplands: Aberystwyth to Rhayader ↗B4560 Llangynidr Mountain and Usk Valley Loop ↗Purbeck: Corfe Castle and Swanage Loop ↗Hadrian’s Wall Military Road Loop ↗A701 Devils Beef Tub: Dumfries to Edinburgh ↗Horseshoe Pass to Ruthin ↗Greenhow and the Eastern Dales ↗Torridon and Lochcarron Loop ↗North Norfolk Coast Road: Hunstanton to Cromer ↗Birker Fell, Duddon Valley and Wrynose Driving Loop ↗Cotswolds Romantic Road: Northern Driving Loop ↗Yorkshire Dales Grand Tour: Buttertubs, Dentdale and Ribblehead ↗Marlborough, Avebury and Pewsey Downs Loop ↗Loch Tay and Sma’ Glen Loop ↗Glen Shiel and the Road to Lochalsh ↗The Cambrian Way: Cardiff to Llandudno Road Trip ↗The Evo Triangle ↗Leighton, Ironbridge and Harley Bank Loop from Atcham ↗Brown Clee: Ditton Priors and the Hill Country Loop ↗Winnats Pass and Hope Valley Loop ↗Black Mountain Circular ↗Sperrin Valleys Loop ↗Quiraing Pass and Trotternish Driving Loop ↗Northumberland Castles and Coast Loop ↗Dartmoor: Moretonhampstead to Tavistock ↗Torr Head Scenic Route and Glens of Antrim Drive ↗South Loch Ness Highland Road ↗Wester Ross: Gairloch and Loch Ewe ↗New Forest: Beaulieu and the Southern Forest Loop ↗West Cornwall Coast Road Loop ↗A836 Crask Road: Lairg to Tongue ↗Snowdonia Coast, Crimea Pass and Bala Grand Loop ↗Honister and Borrowdale Loop ↗Duke’s Pass and Lake of Menteith Loop ↗Castle Rising and Sandringham to the Norfolk Coast ↗Preseli Hills and Gwaun Valley Driving Loop ↗Ribblehead and the High Road to Hawes ↗Swaledale from Richmond to Muker ↗Ogwen Valley Crossing ↗Chiltern Escape: Amersham to Henley ↗Kent and Sussex Coast and Weald Grand Tour ↗Elan Valley Mountain Road and Devils Bridge Loop ↗Tunbridge Wells and the Weald of Kent Loop ↗Salisbury, Shaftesbury and Cranborne Chase Loop ↗New Forest Northern Heaths: Fordingbridge to Cadnam ↗Tan Hill, Swaledale and Mallerstang Driving Loop ↗Dedham Vale and Harwich Estuary Loop ↗Isle of Wight Military Road ↗Peak District Grand Tour: Snake, Winnats and Cat and Fiddle ↗North Shropshire Meres and Market Towns ↗Central Lakes: Ambleside to Keswick ↗Clun Valley to Bishop’s Castle ↗The Coastal Way: St Davids to Aberdaron Road Trip ↗Wrynose and Hardknott Crossing ↗Petworth to Petersfield on the A272 ↗A85 Loch Earn and Pass of Brander to Oban ↗B1257 Helmsley TT and North York Moors Loop ↗P.E.N.IS 287: The Grand Tour Highland Circuit ↗The A1120 Tourist Route to Yoxford ↗Lake District Six Passes Grand Driving Tour ↗Rannoch Moor and Glencoe Crossing ↗Lewes, Alfriston and Cuckmere Downs Loop ↗Talla, Megget and St Marys Loch Mountain Loop ↗Wye Valley: Chepstow to Monmouth ↗Bala and the Berwyn Crossing ↗Stourbridge to the Clee Hills: Enville and Ludlow Grand Loop ↗Central Bannau: Merthyr to Brecon ↗Sevenoaks, Chiddingstone and Penshurst Loop ↗Causeway Coastal Route: Belfast to Derry Grand Road Trip ↗Bwlch y Groes and Lake Vyrnwy Mountain Loop ↗Essex Dengie Roads to Burnham-on-Crouch ↗Clent Hills, Romsley and Belbroughton Country Roads Loop ↗South West Coastal 300: Coast and Southern Uplands ↗Blakey Ridge and Rosedale Loop ↗Breckland Forest and Castle Acre Loop ↗A507 and B1037: North Hertfordshire Driving Loop ↗A82 Great Glen: Fort William to Inverness ↗Trough of Bowland and Ribble Valley Driving Loop ↗Wharfedale to Bishopdale ↗Wensleydale Market Towns ↗Galloway Forest and Loch Ken Loop ↗Whitby Coast and Moors Loop ↗Severn Valley: Ironbridge to Bridgnorth ↗Kent Downs: Maidstone to Canterbury ↗Beachy Head and Birling Gap Coastal Loop ↗Mourne Coastal Route: Belfast to Newry ↗Kirkstone Pass and Ullswater ↗Brecon Beacons Grand Tour: Black Mountain and Epynt ↗Exmoor Coast and High Country Loop ↗Llanberis Pass to Capel Curig ↗Clee Hills Driving Loop: B4363, A4117 and B4364 ↗Wey and Arun Country Roads: Surrey–Sussex Grand Loop ↗A86 Loch Laggan and A889 Dalwhinnie Drive ↗Anglesey Coastal Roads Grand Loop ↗Great Missenden, Wendover and Chiltern Backroads Loop ↗Kingsdale and Dentdale Scenic Driving Loop ↗Bealach na Ba and Applecross Coast Full Circuit ↗Canterbury, Stone Street and Elham Valley Loop ↗Jurassic Coast Road: Bridport to Weymouth ↗Royal Deeside: Braemar to Banchory ↗Yorkshire Wolds Scenic Driving Loop ↗Newlands Hause and Whinlatter Pass Loop ↗Essendon, Northaw and Hertford Countryside Loop ↗Glenshee and the Cairnwell Crossing ↗B4494: Wantage over the Downs to Newbury ↗Ashridge, Ivinghoe and the Northern Chilterns Loop ↗Causeway Coast: Ballycastle to Portrush ↗Norwich and the Northern Broads Loop ↗Tal-y-llyn and the Dysynni Coast Loop ↗Bwlch and Rhigos Mountain Roads ↗South Shropshire Hills and Heritage Loop ↗Moffat and St Mary’s Loch ↗Ranmore Common and the North Downs Loop ↗Stiperstones, The Bog and Ratlinghope Loop from Hanwood ↗Lincolnshire Wolds: Caistor High Street Driving Loop ↗Shrewsbury Circular ↗Wenlock Edge Drive ↗North East 250: Speyside, Coast and Cairngorms ↗White Horse Downs and Lambourn Loop ↗Isle of Mull Western Coast and Calgary Loop ↗Hartside and the North Pennines ↗Eryri Mountain Passes Loop ↗Kintyre 66: East and West Coast Driving Loop ↗Oxford, Cotswolds and Chilterns Grand Tour ↗Exmoor and North Devon Coast Grand Drive ↗The Spine of Wales - The Cambrian Mountains ↗SnowRoads Scenic Route: Blairgowrie to Grantown-on-Spey ↗Devils Staircase and Abergwesyn Pass Driving Loop ↗Horseshoe Pass and Ogwen Valley Grand Drive ↗A861 Ardnamurchan and Sunart Scenic Drive ↗Cat and Fiddle Moorland Circuit ↗Llŷn Peninsula Coastal Country Loop ↗B2026 Ashdown Forest Drive: Westerham to Maresfield ↗The Lecht and Eastern Cairngorms ↗Dalveen Pass, Mennock Pass and the Lowther Hills Loop ↗A838 Loch Shin: Lairg to Durness ↗Norwich to Holt on the B1149 ↗The A272: Winchester to the Sussex Weald ↗Isle of Mull: Tobermory to the Ross of Mull ↗B1057 Finchingfield and North Essex Driving Loop ↗B184 Essex Country Road: Ongar to Saffron Walden ↗A488 Hope Valley Drive: Shrewsbury to Bishops Castle ↗North Coast 500: Complete Highland Touring Circuit ↗Much Wenlock, Corvedale and Ape Dale Driving Loop ↗A87 Road to Skye: Invergarry to Uig ↗North Pennines: Teesdale and Weardale Driving Loop ↗Buttertubs Pass ↗Atlantic Highway: Barnstaple to Newquay ↗B4368 Corvedale Drive: Bridgnorth to Craven Arms ↗Ards Peninsula Coast and Lough Loop ↗Antrim Coast Road ↗Ranmore Common, Leith Hill and Surrey Hills Loop ↗Snake Pass to Ladybower ↗Howgill Edge and the Lune Valley ↗Pickering to Whitby over the Moors ↗Cheddar Gorge and Mendip Loop ↗Holme Moss, Snake Pass and Strines Moorland Drive ↗B1004 and Much Hadham: Hertford to Bishops Stortford ↗Settle to Ribblehead ↗Newmarket, Lavenham and Long Melford Loop ↗Suffolk Coast: Woodbridge to Southwold ↗