Also available An accompanying leaflet showing family FAMILY FRIENDLY RIDES friendly routes in northern Oswestry is also available from local visitor information centres FREE and libraries. Download or order a copy of Cycle rides in this and other cycle leaflets at www.travelshropshire.co.uk/cycle or call 01743 253008 to request copies. southern Oswestry Two cycle routes exploring the Further information countryside south of Oswestry. Visit www.travelshopshire.co.uk/cycle for more information about cycle routes and events in Oswestry This leaflet contains route maps and or to sign up to receive the Cycle Shropshire discount descriptions for two 8 mile cycle card, valid at cycle businesses across Shropshire. rides with shorter options for younger or less experienced The website also includes maps and journey planning tools for cyclists. The routes mostly travelling by foot, bus, train and car. use quiet lanes. Follow @ShropTravel on Twitter. 1. and Visit www.shropshirewalking.co.uk for ideas for short walking Treflach Trail: hilly but routes around Oswestry. scenic. 8 mile main route

Part funded by the Department for Transport with 3 mile shorter route Designed by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk option. © Shropshire Council October 2012 Leaflet edition 1.0 October 2012 2. Meander: Mostly flat with a few steep hills and two trunk road crossings. 8 mile main route with 4 mile shorter route option avoiding trunk road.

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A 0 KILOMETRES 1 2 BROOMHALL L NE 1 Start: St Oswald’s Church, Church Street. Turn right out of 0MILES ½ 1

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E AN 2 SEE OVERLEAF FOR L Go straight over the traffic N L A KEY TO MAP Y W lights. Take care, this is a ES O R C R busy junction. iver Morda 3 Take the next right onto Penylan Lane. Take care, descent

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R T Sweeney Mountain 8 Turn right opposite a farm Treflach Hall 9 Turn right up Stoney Road signed ‘Unsuitable for heavy goods Treflach vehicles’

STONEYROAD ! Turn left at the T junction and then immediately turn right onto Nantmawr Sweeney Fen Trefonen Road. Continue straight on through Trefonen. Quarry Nature Reserve # Turn right, signed Morda and

WERN Y WIEL Dolgoch Quarry $ Take the second left onto Croeswylan Lane © Crown copyright and database rights 2012 Nature Reserve Ordnance Survey 100049049 You are not permitted to copy, sub-licence, distribute % Turn left at the T junction onto Morda Road and continue straight along or sell any of this data to third parties in any form Whitehaven this road to return to your start point. Quarry Llynclys

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Crickheath Blodwel Hill Rock Route 2: Morda Meander 9 Turn right at the end of the track onto the A483. Total route length: 8 miles Take care this is a busy trunk road! Shorter route option length: 4 miles ! Take the next left towards Gwern y Brenin # Turn left towards Gwern y Brenin 1 Start: St Oswald’s Church, Church Street. Turn right out of $ Continue straight on at the crossroads churchyard on Church Street. % Turn left at the T junction 2 Go straight over the traffic lights.Take care, this is a busy junction. Continue on this road until you pass the Marches & Turn left at the T junction onto Maesbury School. Road towards Oswestry 3 Turn right onto Croeswylan Lane. Descend until road swings hard ( Go straight over the junction with the A483 towards Maesbury left, cross Morda Brook/river, and then climb to T junction. Road Industrial Estate. Take care this is a busy trunk road! Use the designated cycle/pedestrian route to cross this junction. 4 Turn left at the T junction ) Take the next left onto Weston Road. 5 Take the first right onto Nant Lane (or if you want to take the shorter route follow the directions in the box below) * Take the next right onto Weston Lane + Turn right onto Weston Avenue Shorter route option For a shorter route for less experienced cyclists avoiding the A483, , Turn left at the crossroads onto Edward Street continue straight on rather than turning at point 5. bu Turn right at the T junction onto Upper Church Street to return to Continue over the crossroads in Morda onto your start point. Weston Road. Turn left onto Weston Avenue at point 17 to re-join Cycling code the route. t Always follow the Highway Code Follow directions from point 18 to return to start point. t Be considerate to other users, and give way to pedestrians and horse riders 6 Turn left towards Nant y Caws t Take particular care at junctions, when cycling downhill and 7 Turn right at the T junction towards Sweeney Mountain on loose surfaces t Ride in single file on narrow or busy roads 8 Turn left down track with the sign ‘unsuitable for motors’. Take t Consider wearing a helmet and high visibility clothing care steep descent; track can be muddy in wet weather; fast busy road at end of lane. Blodwe l Rock Crickheath Llynclys Hill Hill 0 0 MILES

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