THINGS TO SEE ON YOUR RIDE   - This is the main centre of tourism in wc with an exceptionally large village HARD wc - Toilet green. There is an excellent museum featuring the FREE - Turner Trail, the artist JMW Turner visited history and artefacts of lead mining in the area. and Swaledale several times,   Church - St.Andrew’s Church was sketching and painting. Many of these locations known as the Cathedral of the Dale, being the only now have a Turner seat to mark his visit. EXPLORING place where you could bury the dead. There was a   - built in the 14th century by ‘corpse way’ from Keld to Grinton and along which WENSLEYDALE BY BIKE wc Sir William Scrope. Mary, Queen of Scots, was bodies were carried in wicker coffins: a journey of several days. imprisoned here for 6 months in 1568. CYCLE ROUTES   Ropeworks - Watch traditional rope USEFUL INFORMATION AROUND making and see how the twist is put in! Items are also available to purchase. Open Mon-Fri except The route uses quieter roads, as recommended i bank hols, Christmas & New Year. Free Admission. by local cyclists, but you will be riding with traffic at times. Follow the Highway Code and take particular 44 mile  Dales Countryside Museum - has an care at junctions and on descents. wc interesting collection of artefacts and photos Two Dales Tour showing life in the upper dales. CYCLING IN THE DALES  Wensleydale Creamery - where cheese is  Go slowly and with a wide gap past horse riders; wc produced only from milk of local cows including make sure they are aware of your approach the famous Wallace and Gromit cheese! View the  On narrow lanes give way to large vehicles, such cheese making process. as farm machinery   Force - at 97feet (29m) the longest  If riding off-road remember to close gates and be single drop waterfall in . Entry via Green aware of livestock Dragon Pub.  Check your bike is fit for use and carry a puncture  Buttertubs Pass - between Wensleydale and repair kit/inner tube; make yourself visible to other Swaledale these deep, cold, limestone potholes road users were where farmers used to store the butter they Remember there may be limited or no mobile failed to sell at Hawes market ready for collection  phone coverage. the next day.   - home of hand crafted knitwear Cycle shop and hire: wc (Swaledale Woollens) surrounded by spectacular, Leyburn Bikes - 01969 623565 hay meadows- full of wild flowers between May Bike hire only: and July. Bike Hire - 01969 663534   - Once the heart of the lead mining wc industry now has a museum and smithy.

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Leave Leyburn Market Place 1 on A684, signed Continue STRAIGHT ahead on main road through In Reeth continue on main road through village Hawes, next to Bolton Arms. Continue downhill for Hawes following signs for (for Wensleydale green, signed Leyburn. Continue through 1.5 miles to Wensley. Turn RIGHT by Memorial Cross, Creamery turn 1st left). Continue for 1.5 miles to Fremington to Grinton and cross . signed Preston/. 2 Continue for 3.5 miles to and cross narrow bridge over then Immediately after Bridge Inn, as main road Redmire. 3 Continue on main road and after 3 miles turn RIGHT, signed Hardraw. 8 After 1 mile turn bends left, turn RIGHT, signed Leyburn. 11 go STRAIGHT on through . 4 After 4 miles go LEFT, signed Muker 9 and begin a long ascent of the Begin ascent of Grinton Moor, passing Youth through 5 and keep STRAIGHT ahead at next Buttertubs Pass. Hostel on the left after 0.5 miles. Continue to junction, signed Hardraw. In 3.5 miles turn LEFT, signed summit and then descend past army firing Continue to summit and then descend for 1.5 miles to Hawes. 6 Descend to cross River Ure and in 1 mile ranges. At crossroads go STRAIGHT ahead, signed enter Hawes. At junction with A684 turn RIGHT, signed T-junction with B6270. Turn RIGHT, signed Richmond Leyburn. 12 Continue for 2 miles to descend Sedbergh 7 onto cobbled one-way road. 10 and continue STRAIGHT ahead for 10 miles into Leyburn. At T-junction turn RIGHT to reach through Muker, Gunnerside, and Healaugh Market Place. 13 to Reeth. TOUR  2014 Reeth DE FRANCE Low Row Thwaite Gunnerside Stage 1 of the ‘Grand Depart’ runs from Hawes Muker Grinton 11 to Leyburn via points 7 6 9 10 11 12 13 10 on the map and then on to , and . Grinton Moor Buttertubs Pass National Park 12

Starting Redmire point A684 Askrigg Leyburn 5 3 8 9 6 1 Carperby 13 Hawes 7 4 2 Bainbridge A684 Wensley 7 At Hawes to visit Dales Countryside Museum Aysgarth We are a long-established family firm of rope and braid makers supplying products to markets all and Ropeworks, turn LEFT at A684 junction. over the world. Why not call in to see our traditional ropes being made www.ropemakers.com

This route along Wensleydale and Swaledale includes two Tour de France mountain climbs.