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<\/a><\/p>\nAccomepanying the obelisk on the green are two cycling memorials. One to Wayfairer W.M. Robinson, whose “devotion to the passtime of cycling encouraged many to enjoy the countryside and the open road.” And another, dedicated to the cyclists fallen in the world wars and other conflicts. I doffed my helmet.<\/p>\n
Right in the heart of the Midlands and Sustrans have been at it again. Five miles down the road from Meriden, there’s an entrance to the Kenilworth Greenway, part of national cycle route 52, which gave me a smooth, level, peaceful and quick three miles into Kenilworth.<\/p>\n Route 52 followed the main roads to the outskirts of Warwick where I dropped onto the canal towpath for a leisurely, waterside bimble.<\/p>\n Royal Leamington Spa\u00c2\u00a0is an impressive town. Set out around the river, its parks, wide avenues and grand Georgian, low-rise buildings give it a feeling of space and comfort, like an outsized village communing around its green.<\/p>\n Lunch at the splendid Coffee Bean caf\u00c3\u00a9, then on through Bishops Itchington, Fenny Compton and other wonderfully-named villages.<\/p>\n Banbury is bigger than I expected. It combines the sandstone prettiness of Oxfordshire with the demands of modern commerce sometimes uncomfortably.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n