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The brutish Westwood park. Which I find nastier than either side of canonbie.
That was brutal, right at the top where it really creep up to what? 18%?
Gypsy hill is alright but why would you want to go up there?
Was thinking that, it's a nice little climb but for some reason it felt a little lacklustre, plus a little too much traffic sometime.
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@Chalfie
Strangely, I did a ride on here a number of years ago to highlight and showcase the hills of se London.
I like to think there are three sections of up and down around the anerly ridge.
The bit by canonbie road which has canonbie (both sides), the alpine esque horniman drive, ringmore rise, and the brutish Westwood park. Which I find nastier than either side of canonbie. If you start from standing by one of the lampposts on the left as you go up. Once you ascend you can turn left and hit horniman drive and descend then turn left and do the 18% side of canonbie.
There looks like there are other steeper short, none of them are long , thing on the other side of the road as you come off horniman drive.
You can then ride over to the next section, which should include taymount, Eliot bank, turn left down kirkdale, right onto wells park (I'll wave as you go by) and up.
You're then faced with the option of turning right to go back to Eliot bank and then left and left again to get the full college road experience, or you turn left go the quick way and then rwclimb it. 10 climbs of college road is nearly 1000m up. Gypsy hill is alright but why would you want to go up there?
After that, well it's fox hill and all the roads off the left hand side as you head to Croydon.
There's York hill in West norwood and valleyfield road in streatham.