B A 1 1 3 9 6 A 3 1 9A Park House Farm Pecket Wood 1 Mill Bridge 9 Oak Wood Fall Gates Woods New Parks Beck Broadoak Farm StageLinton-on-Ouse 8: York Airfield to BeningbroughRiver Kyle Hall Oak Wood 0 Kilometres 1 2 3 Miles Linton-on-Ouse 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 River Ouse West Field To Ripon and B 1 3 Middlesbrough 6 Newton-on-Ouse Take a Break! 3 Key A 1 Skelton Garden Centre Café Slow Tour route 1 9 On-road / Traffic-free Tewit Nest Heading into open countryside 2 The Sidings National Cycle Network On-road / Traffic-free 3 Home Farm Shop and Café Other cycle routes finish 4 Beningbrough Hall Walled National Cycle Network of full tour Garden Restaurant route number Moss Hill Field Café / Pub Moss Hill Woods Shipton Beningbrough Restaurant / Shop Hall 3 4 Railway with station B Cycle hire 1 3 Beningbrough 2 63 Enjoy the Slow Tour Nun Access point Monkton A on the National Cycle Poppy field on the route 19 Take care here Bus interchange Network! River Ouse Historic attraction The Slow Tour is a guide to 21 of Picnic spot / Gardens A 1 York Minster 23 the best cycle routes in Yorkshire. 7 A 1 It’s been inspired by the Tour de France 7 2 23 3 A Grand Depart in Yorkshire in 2014 and Skelton A1237 A1 7 1237 A59 fundedA59 by Public Health Teams in City of York and North Yorkshire Councils. B 1 Making it3 easier for you A 1 1 6 2 All routes form part of the National finish 3 3 7 Cycle Network - more than 14,000 of short tour Avoiding narrow route The first part of the route to Skelton is not suitable miles of traffic-free paths, quiet lanes 37 12 A A for bikes wider than 1m. Start your Tour at Skelton 1 and on-road walking and cycling routes 9 across the UK. Garden Centre and follow National Route 65 along A59 quiet country lanes to Beningbrough Hall. This route is part of National Route Nether Avoiding steps Great Ings 65, so just follow the signs! 6 Poppleton 03 Rawclife To avoid steps over Scarborough Bridge, turn right A1 Country Park Thistleforth Ings Upper & Playground before the Bridge and follow the riverside path towards Poppleton York. Go under the arch, turn right and walk over this 6 River Ouse 3 10 bridge (Lendal Bridge) to the other side of the river. A Turn left before the Museum Gardens down a slope Things to see and do 7 A Play Areas 3 1 2 9 1 and re-join the riverside path to Beningbrough. York About 30 minutes from York, turn A The beautiful and historic walled city right at a blue cycling sign to of York has countless attractions! “Rawcliffe”. You will find Rawcliffe York Minster and the Museum Country Park, a BMX Pump Track Bike Hire Gardens are within easy reach of this and a children’s play area. Take Care You can hire bikes from Cycle A 1 route. www.visityork.org 9 York Beningbrough Hall Heaven at York Train station. Turn Share the path. Give Sculptures A fantastic C18th mansion, park and right out of the main entrance and way to pedestrians and Look out for sculptures on route gardens with interactive galleries, the shop is just on the right. wheelchair users. www.cycleheaven.co.uk7 Knapton including a miniature Forth Bridge 3 pictures from the National Portrait 2 Take care at the 1 York B A start and a yellow Milepost, painted by Gallery and a Walled Garden 1 Get Cycling in York can deliver a 2 Minster road junctions just past 2 Sustrans Volunteers in 2014 to Restaurant. 4 variety of hire bikes to you at the Moor Drain Shipton. celebrate the Tour de France in www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ train station, including childrens’ and 4 2 2 1224 River Ouse 1 24 B Yorkshire. B beningbrough-hall/ Bdisability12 bikes. B Bilton Grange 1224 www.getcycling.org.uk To Selby Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2014. Cartography © FourPoint Mapping. All rights reserved. and Hull A 1 24 2 12 3 B 7 6 3 0 B1224 1 B1224 A York to Beningbrough 21 STAGE 8 Full Tour to Beningbrough Return 18 miles, about 3 hrs overview map York to Short Tour to Skelton Return 8 miles, about 2 hours 6 20 Beningbrough Hall 7 This beautiful ride takes you from the historic walled 5 8 city of York along National Route 65 on a flat traffic- 9 free riverside path along the Ouse and then along 4 3 19 quiet country lanes, ending at the splendid C18th 1 Beningbrough Hall and its delightful Farm shop and 10 café. 12 2 11 18 l Exit York Station by the Short Stay Car Park Ramp 13 (at the end of Platform 4), turn left at the riverside path, then immediately right over Scarborough Bridge. 14 15 17 l Double back through the archway over the bridge and follow signs for National Route 65 to Skelton 16 along the riverside path. You pass through grazed meadowland and attractive woodland and several interesting sculptures. After 45 minutes, you come to a lane with a cycling sign to Skelton ¼ mile. The Slow Tour is a guide to 21 of the best cycle routes l For the Short Tour, turn right along this lane and across Yorkshire on the National Cycle Network. cycle to the main road. Turn right and walk 50m along the pavement to the Skelton Garden centre and café. The routes have something for everyone, whether you are a family, new to cycling or a regular cyclist. You can take public l For the Full Tour, turn left following National Route transport to the start of most routes and hire bikes there too. 65 signs through the pretty villages of Overton and Shipton. Turn left when you see signs to Beningbrough Tourist attractions l heritage sites Hall. You arrive at the Hall 15 minutes later. cafés and pubs l picnic spots l canals l Enjoy the Farm shop and café or explore the museums l playgrounds l artwork Beningbrough Hall magnificent Hall and gardens. and more! National Trust Images/John Millar l Retrace the route back to York. If you like this route, try out the other 20! Download your free maps at www.sustrans.org.uk/slowtourofyorkshire Enjoy a great cycling day out... York to Beningbrough is part of the 170 mile (274km) Way of the Roses coast2coast route at your own pace ! Milepost celebrating the Tour de France 2014 Photography: Cover Beningbrough Hall © National Trust Images / John Millar Registered charity number 326550 (England and Wales) SCO39263 (Scotland).