simonhill wrote:Easy Anglia may be worth a look. It is close to NL and B (tee hee), but the cycling is not as safe or well signposted. You can find plenty of quiet roads to cycle, but you are always at risk of ending up on a B road that has fast and fairly heavy traffic.
Careful route planning can avoid, but some of the roads may then be a bit substandard. I speak as someone who has ridden some awful roads on the National Cycle routes in Suffolk. Nonetheless well worth a look for you. No major hills and some great scenery - coastal and rural, not to mention plenty of old historic towns.
As soon as we get some set weather after lockdown lifts, I'm off for a mini Travelodge tour of Norfolk and Suffolk.
A somewhat biased Essex Boy.
As a biased East Midlander, but living in the South East, I was very surprised (when doing the Dunwych Dynamo in 2016) at how beautiful parts of the routes were in the countryside I.e, in and close to Essex as it has a poor reputation.
Lots of beautiful villages along the whole Suffolk route and Sudbury in Suffolk is a million times better than Sudbury in London. The area is incredibly Anglo-Saxon as there are myriad Hams (denoting an Anglo-Saxon settlement) as opposed to Viking Burghs in other parts of the country and you cannot get a more Anglo-Saxon name than Saxmundham! And not forgetting that Sutton Hoo is nearby.
All in all, a cracking bit of the country to cycle around.