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Start point: Rownhams Services on the M27 Westbound. 12 midday on sunday the 7th of October.
Doing an old route here. From ^here^ along the B3078 until Cranborne and then up the B3081 towards Shaftesbury.
Drove the route yesterday and it's a good one! 40ish miles in total and I counted NO real traffic lights to contend with!
Just have to hope the roads are fairly quiet. There will be one, maybe two places to stop on the route for pictures etc but it depends on numbers on the day. There is an optional route that goes by the 'Rufus stone' nice little area but we will see about this on the day.The main en-route point is an area called 'Ashley Walk'. It's basically a reasonably sized gravel car park but with nice views and it should be fairly quiet so we will stop here.
The entire New Forest area is 40mph due to horses, cows etc roaming free so watch out for animals. Because of this the first half of the drive is very leisurely while the second half (after Cranborne) is pretty quick, nice straight roads and good flowing corners.
Have to hope the weathers nice now!
Note: Tollard Royal on the route is very narrow and it has a 20mph speed limit, which will need to be kept to as it's often patrolled!.
Finish point and meal: Will be Zig Zag hill and Compton Abbas Airfield.
Compton will not take cards/cheques for anything under a tenner! So everyone must have cash!
Food is anything from about a fiver to 8-9 quid. (proper meals, and subject to change)
Had thought about having the meal somewhere a bit cheaper, but it's more of a drive on top of what we'll have already done, plus the airfields 5 mins up the road from the hill and it has good food.
Zig Zag hill for those who don't know is a very windy, technical road going up the side of a steep hill, one of those roads that you see in the Alps!
A very good area for taking pics too, plenty of good views to be had, near to the airfield at the end of the route.
If you have any questions don't hesitate to PM me!. My phone number will be given out to those who are coming nearer the meet date in case of last minute problems.
A site for Rownhams services: http://www.motorwayservices.info/area.php?area=115
Comptons website: http://www.abbasair.com/ Does need some updating, but it's there!
As I say it's my first time, so be kind! and above all relax and have fun, no time limits will be imposed, apart from the meet time!
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This post has been edited by RedMan: 06 October 2007 - 06:02 PM
if only this was a lil earlier. my uni term starts on the 3rd, and thats near newcastle, so no chance. and the m27 is sooo close!!! 
