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Mary Towneley Loop, Lancashire and Yorkshire

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Mary Towneley Loop, Lancashire and Yorkshire

Jason planned a mountain bike ride

April 21, 2022

Mary Towneley Loop, Lancashire and Yorkshire

Hard

07:24

78.3km

10.6km/h

1,640m

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Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

Most people would complete this in 2-3 days

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584 m

Lanterns Bistro

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Veggie/Vegan café with a menu for everyone. Very nice coffee. Multi Stove fire to sit around on a cold day.

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10.7 km

View of Lower Gorple Reservoir from Standing Stone Hill

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That's a big climb done - you can relax a bit now and enjoy the views before the descent!

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11.3 km

Lower Gorple Reservoir Descent

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Open, spectacular, and - if you've the nerve for it, very fast and drifty. It's definitely better as a descent than a climb - more because of what's to come …

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21.5 km

Cant Clough Reservoir

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If you're riding the Mary Towneley Loop clockwise, you'll likely be slightly tired by now. This is a view back south towards the windfarm at Bent's Pasture. There's a steep …

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28.0 km

Mary Towneley Monument

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Around 35km into the ride clockwise from summit, while dropping down from deerplay to the village of cliviger you pass through a gate into a field and just to your …

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47.1 km

Rooley Moor Road (Cotton Famine Road)

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Doing this clockwise from summit this is the first real climb of the mtl. Not overly steep but a long climb on cobbles and rough hardcore and gravel. Built by …

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71.8 km

View of Stoodley Pike and Hebden Bridge Valley

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The view from here is spectacular all the way to the bottom of the valley - even if you haven't got an extraordinary cloud inversion like this one to enjoy. …

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73.7 km

Beaumont Clough Bridge

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Beaumont Clough bridge presents something of a mystery - it's surprisingly high up the valley (and there's a fun bit of trail riding down to it) but the precise reason …

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78.3 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

32.9 km

26.9 km

6.09 km

6.03 km

5.51 km

758 m

Surfaces

53.1 km

8.47 km

7.37 km

3.44 km

3.15 km

2.79 km

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Mary Towneley Loop, Lancashire and Yorkshire

Lanterns Bistro

View of Lower Gorple Reservoir from Standing Stone Hill

Lower Gorple Reservoir Descent

Cant Clough Reservoir

Mary Towneley Monument

Rooley Moor Road (Cotton Famine Road)

View of Stoodley Pike and Hebden Bridge Valley

Beaumont Clough Bridge

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