• Bungay Street
• Length: 0.11 miles
• Avg gradient: 9%   Peak gradient: 12%
• Difficulty: 1/5 (it’s very short!)
• Likelihood of encountering unpleasant motor-vehicles: 0/5
• Elevation gain: 55ft
• Strava

A recommendation from the CycleSheffield FB forum, this a little hill that I would never have come across otherwise and serves as a nice partner to Paradise Street. If you’re still craving the Belgian taste of cobbles, this is one to have a go at.

First off, look at the length. This is a sprint, not a marathon but, much like when I attempted Paradise Street and Blake Street before that, don’t try to show off and go in bigger than you can, as you may well find yourself embarrassingly panting, out of breath halfway up this rather short hill. Not that that happened to me, of course…

Bungay Street is out the back of the train station, a path cutting through Sheaf Valley Park and you can see the top from the bottom, so just blast onwards and upwards but watch out for pedestrians – I imagine it could be quite busy during commuter times. It commences at about 6.8% and the gradient steadily increases until you reach 12% at the top, where the path meets South Street and the climb concludes, with a great view across the city.

Just like Paradise Street, it’s head down, pedal away, see how quickly you can get up.