Local Information Cycling Code of Conduct: Cycle shops: When cycling on roads: Skipton: • Always follow the Highway Code • • Dave Ferguson Cycles (01756 Be seen - most accidents to cyclists happen at junctions 795367) • Fit lights and use them in poor • Riders Cycles Centre (01756 visibility 796844) • Consider wearing a helmet and conspicuous clothing Cycling clubs in the area: When cycling on shared use paths Skipton Cycling Club: please: Web: www.skiptoncyclingclub.org.uk • Give way to pedestrians, leaving them Gargrave to East Marton South Craven Wheelers: plenty of room Tel. No: 07769296320 • Keep to your side of any dividing line Recreational Cycle Web: www.southcraven.co.uk • Be prepared to slow down or stop if necessary Routes • Use your bell - not all pedestrians can Public transport: see you. • Don’t expect to cycle at high speeds. • Buses from Gargrave to Skipton • Train services from Gargrave to Skipton Craven District Council • Skipton Bus Station 1 Belle Vue Square • Buses from East Marton to Broughton Road Skipton Skipton Phone: 01756 700600 Website: http://www.cravendc.gov.uk/ Tourist Information: Route at a glance • Skipton Tourist Information Centre (01756 792809) Distance: 13.8km (+1km for canal Email: [email protected] route) Height: 76m Local Attractions: Start and finish: Gargrave • Leeds and Liverpool Canal • Various small shops in Gargrave Parking: Gargrave Difficulty: Easy Route Description: An easy going ride, suitable for beginners and families, taking you along quite country lanes, good quality bridleway tracks. Option of also riding along the ‘Leeds and Liverpool canal’. This ride will allow you to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the ‘Yorkshire Dales’ with hardly any hills. A: From the free car park opposite the Masons Arms, head west on Marton Road. B: Stay on this road through Bank Newton and carry on for 5.5km and ride past the T junction signed West Marton. The road climbs up and after 300meters you take the Bridleway road (Ingthorpe Lane) on the left. C: Follow this bridleway past Inglethorpe Grange until you reach main road again: A59. CAUTION AS FAST MOVING VEHICLES. Turn left here and then over the brow of the hill turn left into East Marton. D: At the Cross Keys Pub turn left and down the hill following the right hand dead end road. This goes down and then over the canal and follows the canal on tarmac surface for 300meters. There is a T junction where you turn right and follow the bridleway track for 2.5km crossing back over the canal before arriving back in Bank Newton. E: At the cross roads in Bank Newton you turn right CAUTION! and follow this road back to Gargrave. (If the ground is dry, you can also ride along the Leeds Liverpool Canal from Cafes/Pubs East Marton to Bank Newton: shown as dashed line on map. You ride onto the Gargrave: The Masons Arms (01756 749304) Canal at the bridge just past East Marton, which then takes you all the The Dalesman Café (01756 749250) way back to just past Bank Newton. It only adds about 1km to the route). East Marton: The Cross Keys (01282 844326) Abbots Harbour Café (01282 843207) .