Why this ride
256 km from Lillerød to Lillerød, about 3 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Borgring, Trelleborg and back through Borgring. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Store Dyrehave and Trelleborg
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 256 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 05
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Store Dyrehave
North of Copenhagen the royal family once hunted on a scale that reshaped the landscape, and Store Dyrehave, the Great Deer Park, near Hillerød, is a piece of that design. The forest is cut by straight rides, long avenues that radiate like the spokes of a wheel, so that horsemen and hounds could follow a stag at speed without losing sight of it. This kind of hunting, called par force, was fashionable at European courts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Danish kings built an entire landscape for it, now recognised by UNESCO as the Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand.
Read the complete Store Dyrehave write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Store Dyrehave is where the day begins. Next is Borgring.
2. Borgring
In 2014, archaeologists using laser scanning of the landscape noticed a faint circle in a field near Køge, on the Danish island of Zealand, about forty kilometres south-west of Copenhagen. Excavations confirmed what they had hoped: it was a Viking ring fortress, one of a small group of perfectly circular fortresses built in Denmark in the late tenth century, probably under King Harald Bluetooth. It was named Borgring, and it was the first new ring fortress to be found in Denmark in over sixty years.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Borgring comes up 71 km in. Next is Trelleborg.
3. Trelleborg
In the late tenth century, on the western coast of Zealand, King Harald Bluetooth built a fortress that must have looked to its neighbours like a statement written in earth. Trelleborg is a perfect circle, about a hundred and thirty metres across, ringed by a high rampart with four gates facing the compass points, and inside, sixteen long houses are arranged in four neat blocks around a central crossing, like a plan drawn with a compass and ruler. Archaeologists dated the timbers to around the 980s, and the same geometry turns up at other Danish fortresses, at Fyrkat in Jutland and Aggersborg by the Limfjord, which suggests a royal building programme under a single mind.
Read the complete Trelleborg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
142 km in you reach Trelleborg. Next is back through Borgring.
4. back through Borgring
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Borgring, late in the day. Next is Store Dyrehave.
5. Store Dyrehave
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Store Dyrehave write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Store Dyrehave. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Store Dyrehave to Borgring
Store Dyrehave → Borgring is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Borgring to Trelleborg
Borgring → Trelleborg is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Trelleborg to back through Borgring
Trelleborg → back through Borgring is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Borgring to Store Dyrehave
back through Borgring → Store Dyrehave is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.