General
The Shaftesbury Cycling Club is based at Mountnessing in Essex (between Brentwood and Chelmsford) and boasts over 130 members covering a very wide age range (5 years to over 90 years). Longevity of membership is certainly revered and in the last few years two members celebrated 70 years continuous membership, four 60 years and one 50 years - click here for details of these and all the other outstanding achievements. Ladies have only been admitted since 1973 but already five have clocked up 40 years, three 30 years and several 25 years membership. - click here to see the list. Members participate in most areas of cycling activity and the Club promotes over 30 Club time trials each season as well as 3 Open Time Trials (the 50 having started in 1906) and a very popular series of Audax UK Randonnées. Details of all these can be found on this Website.

Most of the current active members live in Essex but there are still strong ties to its founding area of East London where in 1888 a group of cyclists formed themselves into the Shaftesbury Cycling Club. Why the Shaftesbury? - after all London was and still is a long way from Dorset. Well the Hall where they met was founded by Lord Shaftesbury, the 7th Earl, and the Club was supported by and is named after him. Not only has the name remained unchanged all these years but the Club Colours of Cardinal and Black were chosen in 1890 and only the Gold trimmings have been added since. Like to know more about the Club History? Just click here to go to "The First Hundred Years", a brief historical outline of the Club compiled for the Centenary Dinner.

Club Meetings
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Country Venue
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Every Wednesday 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm at Mountnessing Village Hall, Roman Road, Mountnessing (alongside Windmill). The Club Bungalow is situated in North Essex and is available for overnight stays for members and friends.
Affiliations British Cycling ()
Cycling Time Trials ()
 Eastern Counties Cycling Associaton ()