Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post

If you wanted to update your tech, without buying anything or carrying anything else on your bike, you could use the 'Directions from here' option when you right-click on Google Maps (might be different if you're not using Windows), and click start and end points. You can then right-click again to use the 'Add a destination' to add control points. I have found the distance to be accurate compared to GPS and map measuring, although the height gained I would describe as 'questionable'.
For today's little jaunt to Willoughby-on-the-Wolds and Wysall, I measured the distance both by my traditional method (measuring wheel on OS map) and by Marco's suggestion above. As I had expected, the measuring wheel produces a rather conservative estimate; a little over 21 miles, compared to 22.3 miles from Google maps. I found it a bit fiddly to get a sequence of control points on Google maps that got it to trace the route that I had actually taken.