The Roses Border Ride Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Key to Facilities GPS Waypoints (OS Grid Refs)

The Roses Border Ride Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Key to Facilities GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs)

Long Preston village (Station car 35 miles (56km) Roads, hilly, steep in parts Café, Toilets, Post Office, 1 SD 8341 5799 park) (GR 834579). 3-4 hours Pub, Shop, Car park, 2 SD 8106 5701 Station, Information 3 SD 8044 5998 4 SD 8029 6284 5 SD 7907 6465 N 7 6 SD 7451 6628 6 7 SD 7329 6763 8 SD 7270 6071 9 SD 7489 5432 5 10 SD 8096 5696

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This is a majestic circuit on quiet lanes 1 GPS: SD 8341 5799 8 GPS: SD 7270 6071 Public Transport either side of the Lancashire and Turn left on leaving the car park and Follow the road up the long climb North Yorkshire border. It includes the follow the road over the river Ribble through Keasden Moor and Bowland Long Preston is on the Leeds to Settle challenging yet beautiful climb over and onto Wigglesworth. Knotts (the highest point of this ride at and Morecambe lines, also accessible Keasden Moor, offering some of the 422m, and the Yorkshire - Lancashire by Dales Rail from Lancashire on 2 GPS: SD 8106 5701 summer Sundays. best views in either county. Turn right just as you enter the village border. Descend carefully down Descending through Gisburn Forest (before the pub), signposted to through Gisburn Forest and Dale Head. Arriving by car you also have the opportunity to go Rathmell. 9 GPS: SD 7489 5432 Long Preston is on the A65 between off road and use the mountain bike Turn left at the crossroads (signpost to 3 GPS: SD 8044 5998 Settle and Skipton. It is also at the end trails through this Forest Enterprise Wigglesworth and Settle) and Follow the road through Rathmell to of the A682 from Nelson and Gisburn. plantation, or to stop and contemplate continue through Tosside and cross the views of Stocks reservoir, and the the A65. the border back into Yorkshire. Turn off the A65 to the station (sign- tranquillity of St James chapel at Dale 4 GPS: SD 8029 6284 posted). Head - moved from the hamlet of the Turn left onto the A65 and then left 10 GPS: SD 8096 5696 same name when the valley was again after 200m onto an unmarked Continue straight through Wigglesworth Other Information flooded in the 1930s.The chapel is lane passing underneath the railway and back to Long Preston station. Rathmell Horse Farm. Includes an wind powered, and the turbine stands bridge (Giggleswick station). in a graveyard which has rich botanical equine swimming pool and solarium, 5 GPS: SD 7907 6465 tearoom, visitor centre. They also put interest due to the abundance of Turn left at the crossroads (signpost to on outdoor displays in the all-weather wildflowers growing there. Eldroth). menage, have miniature Shetland pony racing, mares and foals, and farriery 6 GPS: SD 7451 6628 displays. Turn right immediately after passing underneath the railway bridge - signpost to Clapham (ignore the right turn just before the bridge). 7 GPS: SD 7329 6763 Turn left at T junction (Clapham station is adjacent to the bridge on your right, if starting from here turn right out of the station, under the bridge and straight on). www.forestofbowland.com