Great North Ride looks interesting, but they were trying to recreate an historic event so had to do some road.
Has anyone done offroad London to Edinburgh ?
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Is there a bridleway route from London to Edinburgh ?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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I only know the area around Edinburgh down to the borders - a route could be found but it would be rather indirect and you would have to do a few bits of road.
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is there a canal route?
are towpaths classified as bridlepaths?Posted 6 months ago # -
no canals cross the border. Few canals in scotland and none south of Edinburgh
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Towpath probably essential out of London, but after that would prefer to keep off them - looking for a cross country epic, more hills the better.
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Where would you want to cross the border?
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Two books which you might like to consider when planning this:
Scottish Hill Tracks by Scotways ISBN 0-95466735-0-6
The Drove Roads of Scotland by A.R.B. Haldane ISBN 1-874744-76-9These show the old drove road (used to move cattle) between the Falkirk tryst and the border. The most obvious route (from Edinburgh area) would be Balerno - Cauldstane Slap - West Linton - Romanno Bridge - Peebles - Gypsy Glen - St Marys Loch - Tushielaw - Craick - Teviothead or Peebles - Innerleithen - Yarrow (Minch Moor) - Ettrickbridge - Hawick.
90% of each of these options is still available off-road. As regards south of the border, I'll defer to more knowledgeable folks.
Edit: Check out Fay Godwin too....http://www.faygodwin.com/books.html
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I can get you through Suffolk if others pick up the other counties.
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All bridleways stop at the border. In Scotia they dont have the same land access farce that exists in England.....
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Don't believe you could bridleway it, but definitely plenty of 'cheeky' trails - here's one for starters:
http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/pennineway/
And once over the border - old drove road to Jedburgh, then roman road to St Boswells, over the Eildens, SUW to Lauder etc
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Lea river/canal all the way from the Thames to Hertford.
Bways to Stevenage and then there are loads that follow the A1 up towards Htchin/Letchworth. - that's got to be 30/40 miles .Posted 6 months ago # -
The only map you'll need
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That is a very very cool map.
I have just been reading Asterix in Britain (bought if for my nephew honest).
We should plot a ride along all those roads, picking up people as we go, and ride to London demanding, er, I don't know, better use of indicators on roundabouts ?
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