Cycleway 7 (C7, formerly Cycle Superhighway 7): Colliers Wood to City
Cycleway 7 runs 15 km from Colliers Wood to City through Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, City of London and Merton; 23% of it is on a cycle track or path of its own, and SuperSafe rates 30% of it quiet. 100% of it is lit after dark.
- 15 km
- 23% on a track or path of its own
- 30% rated quiet
Cycleway 7 route map
The built route as OpenStreetMap maps it. Blue is a cycle track or path of its own; black is on the road.
C7 at a glance
- Length
- 15 km
- Runs
- Colliers Wood to City
- Grade
- Mostly on-road
- On a track or path of its own
- 23%
- Rated quiet by SuperSafe™
- 30%
- Lit after dark
- 100%
- Boroughs
- Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, City of London, Merton
- Built pieces
- One continuous route
- Planned extensions
- None mapped
The streets C7 follows
In route order as mapped, named streets and paths only.
- Ontario Street
- Princess Street
- St George's Road
- Elliott's Row
- Brook Drive
- Churchyard Row
- Newington Butts
- Kennington Park Road
- Clapham Road
- Stockwell Road
- Clapham High Street
- Clapham Common South Side
- Balham Hill
- Balham High Road
- Upper Tooting Road
- Tooting High Street
- High Street Colliers Wood
- High Street
- Queen Street
- Queen Street Place
- Southwark Bridge
- Southwark Bridge Road
- Keyworth Street
Cycleways C7 connects to
Routes that share a street or a junction with Cycleway 7, so you can change between them without leaving the signed network.
How Cyclemate routes it
Riding C7 with SuperSafe™
SuperSafe rates 30% of Cycleway 7 quiet. Our directions follow the protected and quiet sections and leave the signed route where it runs along a busy road, picking a parallel back street instead, so a Cyclemate route may not match the signs for the whole way.
Plan a ride between its ends and tap "Why this route?" to see which parts of C7 it used and what it steered around.
- 23%
- on a track or path of its own
- 30%
- rated quiet by SuperSafe™
- 100%
- lit after dark
Notes and sources
Cycleway 7 is drawn from the 4 OpenStreetMap route relations tagged with its number in the June 2026 London extract our routing map is built from, including those still tagged Cycle Superhighway 7. Length is the sum of the mapped ways. Protected means a cycleway in its own right or a road with a mapped separate track. Quiet and lit are SuperSafe™ ratings from the Cyclemate London map over the 86% of the route it holds.
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Cycleway 7: your questions
Where does Cycleway 7 go?
Cycleway 7 runs 15 km from Colliers Wood to City, through Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, City of London and Merton. Along the way it follows Ontario Street, Princess Street, St George's Road, Elliott's Row and Brook Drive.
Is C7 a protected cycle route?
Mostly not. Only 23% of Cycleway 7 is on a cycle track or path of its own; the rest is signed along the road, so its safety depends on how quiet those streets are.
How safe is C7 to cycle?
SuperSafe rates 30% of Cycleway 7 quiet, on a cycle track, a low traffic street or a road with little motor traffic, and 100% of it is lit at night. Cyclemate’s directions use the quiet sections and route around the rest.
What does C7 connect to?
Cycleway 7 shares a street or a junction with Cycleway 3, Cycleway 5, Cycleway 6, Cycleway 10, Cycleway 14, Cycleway 48 and Cycleway 62, so you can change between them without leaving the signed network.
Is C7 the same as Cycle Superhighway 7?
Yes. Transport for London renamed the Cycle Superhighways and Quietways as Cycleways in 2019, so Cycle Superhighway 7 is signed as C7 today; the route is the same.
