Rivers Lune & Wyre
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Rivers Lune & Wyre Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Key to Facilities GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs) Lancaster Millennium Bridge 30 miles (48km), The route includes cycle paths and Café, Toilets, Shop, Pub, 1 SD 4723 6208 (SD 4723 6208) 3-4 hours sections on roads. It includes steep Picnic site, Car park, climbs. 2 SD 5310 6482 Viewpoint, Station 3 SD 5325 6485 4 SD 5142 6210 2 5 SD 5201 5906 N 6 3 SD 5850 5357 7 SD 5236 5128 8 SD 5130 5281 9 SD 4838 5535 1 4 10 SD 4817 5552 12 11 SD 4598 5579 12 SD 45926175 5 11 10 9 6 8 © Crown Copyright.© Crown (100023320) (2008) All rights reserved 7 0 Miles 1 2 Miles 0 Km 1 2 3 Km www.forestofbowland.com Rivers Lune & Wyre About This Ride Route Description This ride gives you a taste of the 1 GPS: SD 4723 6208 8 GPS: SD 5130 5281 variety of landscapes in the area. From Millennium Bridge take the cycle Turn right to the village of path (Route 69) on the south side of Dolphinholme and maybe visit the Post The ride starts in Lancaster city and river to Halton and Crook O'Lune. Office and shop for a snack. Return to uses an old railway line alongside the the main road, turning right at The River Lune to the village of Caton. 2 GPS: SD 5310 6482 Leave the cycle path at the road Fleece and following this road along This line used to transport livestock and under the motorway. and clay bricks into Lancaster and on crossing in Caton. Cross mini to Glasson Dock. Once past roundabout with care. 9 GPS: SD 4838 5535 Cross the A6 Quernmore the landscape starts to 3 GPS: SD 5325 6485 at Galgate crossroads. change as you climb on to the Turn right, then left following 10 GPS: SD 4817 5552 Bowland Fells - heather moorland Lancashire Cycleway (Route 90). Turn right on Route 6 to Conder Green. which is managed for grouse shooting. 4 After coming down the hill past GPS: SD 5142 6210 11 GPS: SD 4598 5579 Abbeystead the route swings right into Fork left to Quernmore, following Turn right on A588. By Stork Hotel Marshaw and along the bottom of Route 90. turn left. Follow the cycle path along the Hawthornthwaite Fell. Around 5 GPS: SD 5201 5906 Lune Estuary into Lancaster. (Route 6). Dolphinholme the views become softer At Quernmore crossroads take the left 12 GPS: SD 4592 6175 and more wooded, and then after turn onto the Trough of Bowland road Follow the quay to Millennium Bridge Conder Green you return to the riverside (signposted to Clitheroe). Climb up to with perhaps the smell of the sea! Jubilee Tower (viewpoint). Public Transport 6 GPS: SD 5850 5357 Turn right, cross the bridge and follow Lancaster Station Follow the cycle the road on the south side of path from the north end of platform 1 Wyresdale. for the Millennium Bridge. 7 GPS: SD 5236 5128 Arriving by car Turn right at the crossroads towards Use any city centre car park, or Galgate and Lancaster. alternatively start at Crock O’ Lune car park and picnic site or at Caton village. www.forestofbowland.com.