[Closed] Riding around Lancashire and Yorkshire

My mum lives up near a village called Bacup

made up place name

Bacup

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SaxonRider
This morning I rode the Long Causeway.

You should have said, couple of minutes away from the Burnley end.
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You could have popped in for a brew and helped us saw up our decking.
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Nice innit?
Did you see the Chinook that came over?

Have a trip up to the Singing Ringing Tree up on Crown Point between Bacup and Burnley, loads of fast descents and properly good climbs.

Cafes at Barley and the Kingfisher at Reedley Marina are nice, you rode past Towneley Hall, which is a brilliant building and great park, all beautifully looked after and we'll used.
Nice cafe there too.

There's loads, Wycoller is a lovely old place full of history with a great cafe, and if you ride from the end of Long Causeway via Worsthorne, Haggate, and Trawden and back there's basically a 25 mile loop of quiet, beautiful, horrendously steep, moorland top roads, even a ford if you feel lucky.

You can get over to Heptonstall via Slack and then to Hebden if you can face it, or the canal back to Burnley.

There's loads.
It's great.
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Oh, and if you're riding to the cafe at Barley, and you should, rude not to pop over to Downham.
Nice place with a notoriously pretty little church and graveyard.

Have fun.

Working 'till Saturday now sadly, hope it stays fine for you.

The road riding round here is fab, however the state of the roads around Bowland leaves a lot to be desired!

Downham? Be sure to check out the unusual [url= http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/443365 ]Gents in a pigsty[/url] (I did 😳 )

Rusty Spanner - Member

Have a trip up to the Singing Ringing Tree up on Crown Point between Bacup and Burnley...

Is there a good offroad route I can put together that takes in the Tree? I've been looking at the map, but not worked anything out yet. Couple of hours riding or thereabouts would be grand, I reckon.

Yeah, you can work your way over pretty much all off road from the centre of Burnley via the canal, Rooley Lake/Towneley Park, Hurstwood, Can't Clough, The Hushings, down on the fast singletrack to the right of the windfarm over Long Causeway to the Ram, other side of the valley up to the Lancashire Cycleway or push up to the memorial and past the farm on the doubletrack to Crown Point.
Cross the road, tracks going off everywhere.

Can get there on the Pennine Bridleway from Dunnockshaw Res on the Rawtenstall side or mixed route up from Waterfoot/Bacup side.
You can come over via the Bacup/Tod road and go through the scruffy farm up to Thievely Pike.
Or from Tod itself up to Flowerscar Lane or up behind the park etc.

It never ends.
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Every road route seems to have a corresponding off road equivalent, depending on your attitude to cheek.

Don't go drinking anywhere in Bacup or Waterfoot or in any pub on the road from Bacup to Rochdale.

The pub at the steam train station in Rawtenstall is nice.

We're bimblers, so take that into account, you may prefer something a bit more gnar.
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Oh excellent, ta. I'll take another look at the maps during a conference call this afternoon... 😆

Don't forget to visit the drop off cafe in Edenfield. You can get there my going up onto scout moor from cowpe/waterfoot and then coming down sandybeds/gincroft lane to into edenfield.