2025 Hill Climbing Competition schedule

Hill climbs selected local to the start of the Wigmore Cycling Clubs Sunday ride, all within 15 km. These are only fun challenges. Please monitor yourselves and observe all traffic codes. Keep safe and no posthumous prizes will be awarded.

Climbs to be on a bicycle and must be recorded on Strava to collect activity data with visibility open to all to allow WCC to collate results and provide updates during the year.

Click on the name of the hill to open a link to the Strava segment in a different tab.

Hill number	Strava Name	Location	Height Gain (m)	Route Length (km)	Max Gradient	Average Gradient
1	Basser Hill	Lower Rainham Road before Raspberry Hill south on Basser Hill	31	0.43	11.30%	7.20%
2	Castle Hill, Thurnham	Pilgrims way at Thurnham, north (upwards).	81	0.84	25.20%	9.60%
3	Broad Street Hill, Broad Street	Another climb from the Pilgrims way east of Detling.	79	0.79	14.00%	10.00%
4	Straight Hill Stockbury	Queendown Warren along Cradles Road to Stockbury.	58	0.92	9.40%	6.10%
5	Bull Lane Climb	Near Hartlip to Stockbury	38	0.92	7.50%	4.10%
6	Boxley Road Climb, Walderslade	Robin Hood Lane base, the Sherwood Oak pub south and up.	61	1.88	7.40%	3.20%
7	Prince Charles Avenue Climb	Walderslade, Princes Avenue to Lordswood Lane.	34	0.34	11.70%	9.80%
8	Wormdale Hill, Maidstone Road to Golf Club	To Sittingbourne Golf Club from the Maidstone Road, adj A249.	15	0.39	6.00%	3.70%
9	Oad Street Link Road Climb	From Maidstone Road (adj A249) head up to Oad Street.	34	0.57	14.30%	6.00%
10	Burham Road Steep Part	Heading south along the Medway Valley with a slight climb to Burham.	39	0.83	7.50%	4.70%
11	Col de Rue d'Ecole	Wouldham, to become popular with the one-way system.	48	0.85	12.00%	5.70%
12	Warren Road	From Lower Bell PH base of Bluebell Hill up Warren Road.	74	0.71	27.70%	10.40%
13	cliffe road	Strood leave north on Frindsbury Road 2nd left target Broomhill.	43	0.74	7.20%	5.70%
14	Pear Tree Lane - Climb only	From Gravesend Road at Higham, left at the lights and up.	34	0.45	12.30%	7.50%
15	Hermitage Ln West Bound	Lower Rochester Road towards Higham, past Pond Livery.	37	1.57	8.00%	2.20%

2025 Hill Climb Competition locations

The red circle identifies the area at a radius of 15 km from Rainham.

The 15 hills selected for the 2025 challenge are within this circle and are all existing Strava segments.

All WCC members are welcome to take part and either send their results to Scorekeeper@wcc.bike or save the activity in Strava with “visibilty all” to permit result data to be collected.

Routes

Here are some routes that include some of the climbs (but feel free to create your own):

ROUTE 1: WCC Hill Climbs in 2024, 6, 7, 10 to 15: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/322767880

ROUTE 2: WCC Hill Climbs 2024 – Hills 1 to 5, 8 & 9: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/322772971