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I was going to say that I haven't been up Swains, but actually it rings a bell, where is it again? Description of Chalkpit would go something like, from railway bridge at the bottom - slight incline (300 yards?), followed by longer stretch of something slightly steeper (this was the bit that always got me - you know what's coming but you're already struggling slightly - going down through the gears on a road bike), then up past the quarry (from whence it gets its name), steeper now, and steeper still, until you hit the sharpish turn right, which is possibly the steepest part (ie, if you pull on your handlebars too much you will flip over backwards), then it levels out ever so slightly - DON'T RELAX AT THIS POINT, BIG MISTAKE - because then it gets steeper again, before level out round a left turn, that brings you up to a junction.
Botley Farm is the pub just over the way from the top of Chalkpit.
One thing if you were going to race there, it's narrow - you can get past oncoming traffic, but you may sometimes find there's not an awful lot of room.