One of the famous 100 Climbs - this beauty is steep at the bottom, then gradual and then savage for 100m at the end. Great descent off the other side heading on toward Buttertubs and the heart of the Dales
A pleasant market town at the head of the Eden Valley, Kirkby Stephen enjoys an enviable position close to the Yorkshire Dales, North Pennines and Lake District.
This very impressive viaduct, built in 1861, used to be a part of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway. It carried coal and coke across the Pennines (apparently over …