County – Reading
Elevation - 103m
Date – 2 April 2023
Distance – 73km (cycling!)
Elevation Climbed - 384m (cycling!!)
Status – 45th highest Unitary authority/102nd highest LA
To get to Park Lane you have to ride up Mayfair. Strangely there are no red houses or green hotels knocking about this suburb out to the west of Reading, although there is a massive water tower marking the highest point in the borough (as is quite often the case on the lesser CTs, although not many are as poncey as this one).
I'd cycled up to Tilehurst from home - a 73km round trip - to try and tie in a bit of Topping with my ongoing training for the Ride London 100 mile cycling event next month. This was the sixth and last of the Berkshire County Tops for me to, er, conquer, and probably my fifth favourite (it's slightly better than Slough, which is, I think, the motto of Reading).
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