Well, here it is. This is the latest route plan for the journey compiled after many hours switching between Google Maps for the present day road numbers and the 1950s AA Members Annual Handbook and of course, the Cub Bible for the details of where Turner and his crew actually went. If anyone has any local knowledge of the roads and areas that we'll be using, please get in touch as we may need your help with getting through or around towns and cities, and if you spot that we've listed a place or a road that didn't exist in 1953, drop us a line to gbc AT thecubmag.com. If you should fancy tagging along for all or some of the way, again, just drop us a line to let us know when and where you plan to meet us.
DAY 1 Sun 6th Oct – morning
leg
ROCHE 11:40 > following as much of the old A30 as
possible to Redruth > Penzance > LANDS END (lunch @ Land’s End
Hotel)
Afternoon leg
Return to Roche on same route > A389 > Bodmin >
A30 > Launceston > A388 > (unclassified) Lifton > Bridestowe >
Meldon >B3260 > Oakhampton > Ramsley > A382 > Cheriton Bishop
> Tedburn St Mary > Five Mile Hill > Tedburn Road into EXETER
Overnight stop TBC. Photoshoot @ Imperial Hotel approx
ETA 18:35
Turners mileage = 180
DAY
2 Mon 7th Oct – morning leg
EXETER
> B3183 > Jack-in-the-Green > A30 > Honiton > A303 > South
Petherton > A303 > Podimore > A37 (Fosse Way) > Shepton Mallet >
Oakhill > A367 (Fosse Way) > Bath > A4 Chippenham > A350 > A429
> MALMESBURY (lunch @ Old Bell Hotel)
Afternoon leg
MALMESBURY > A429 > Cirencester >A429 >
Stowe-on-the-Wold > A429 > Ettington > A429 >LEAMINGTON SPA
Overnight
stop TBC. Photoshoot @ Regent Hotel, approx. ETA 16:05
Turners
mileage = 163
DAY 3 Tues
8th Oct – morning leg
Leamington Spa 08:00 > the following TBC Meriden >
Triumph @ Hinkley > A47 > round Leicester > A46 > Six Hills >
Bingham > A6097 > White Post > A614 > Ollerton > A614 > A1
> Blyth > A614 > Bawtry > A638 > Doncaster > A1
> Ferrybridge > old A1 > Wetherby > A168 > BOROUGHBRIDGE
(lunch)
Afternoon leg
Boroughbridge > A168 >J49 A1(M) for 12 miles > J50
> A6055 > A1 > Catterick > Scotch Corner > A66 >
Bowes > Brough > Appleby-in-Westmoreland (tea stop) >
Penrith > A6 > High Hesket > CARLISLE
Overnight
stop TBC. Photoshoot @ Crown & Mitre Hotel, approx. ETA 18:00
Turners mileage =
246
DAY
4 Wed 9th Oct – morning leg
Carlisle
08:00 > old road along M6 > Gretna > B7076 > Ecclefechan >
Lockerbie > Beattock > A702 > Crawford > A702 > A73 > Lanarak
> A73 > Airdrie > A73 > Cumbernauld > A8011 > B816 >
Castlecary >A803 > Longcroft > A872 > Denny > A872 > Stirling
> Causewayhead Rd (A9) > B8033 > Dunblane > B8033 > A9 >
Gleneagles > PERTH (lunch @ Salutation Hotel
Afternoon leg
Perth
> A9 (old road where poss) > Dunkeld > Pitlochry > Dalwhinnie (tea
stop) > Kingussie > INVERNESS
Overnight
stop TBC. Photoshoot @ Caledonian Hotel, approx. ETA 18:30
Turners
mileage = 263
DAY
5 Thur 10th Oct
Inverness
07:00 > A862 > Beauly > Dingwall > A9 > Alness > B9176 >
A836 > Bonar Bridge > A949 > A9 > Golspie > Helmsdale >
Berriedale Braes > A9 > A99 > Wick > A99 > John O’ Groats >
WICK
Photoshoot @ JOG approx. 12pm, photoshoot @ Wick approx. ETA
12:50
Turners mileage
= 158
Day 6 Fri 11th Oct
Cubbie Towers - SLEEPING!
