Not sure about Yorkshire

reohn2 wrote:There are by far,less days raining than dry and though the summers are Spanish it's not as bad as you make it out to be,not by a long shot.
EDIT,if you want somewhere wet go to Cumbria
Cyril Haearn wrote:Ireland and Wales intercept the clouds, Lancashire gets a bit of rain if there is any left
Not sure about Yorkshire
jackt wrote:This website is a good resource for discovering old ways, with a focus on drove roads and saltways:
http://www.localdroveroads.co.uk/
Richard Fairhurst wrote:Routes like this are often mapped as historic route relations in OSM, though I don’t know of anywhere that renders them. Perhaps I should...
TrevA wrote:There are sections of the old Great North Road north of Newark. It can be accessed at Cromwell and from Carlton on Trent runs east of the new A1 to Tuxford. It’s quite a pleasant road to ride on, being quite wide and only has local traffic on it.
pwa wrote:I won't be doing that one again but in a strange way I am glad I did it.
Richard Fairhurst wrote:pwa wrote:I won't be doing that one again but in a strange way I am glad I did it.
In that spirit...
A couple of weeks ago I rode NCN 46 from Swansea to Abergavenny. There is notoriously a missing bit between Hirwaun and Merthyr where there's no alternative other than to go on the A465 (the fast, busy Heads of the Valleys Road). I'd spotted a nearby track on the map which I thought was worth investigating. The gradients looked ludicrous, but maybe it would be more pleasant to push here than to ride along the A465?
Spoiler: it wasn't. It was an incredibly rough rubble track, entirely unrideable (and I was on the gravel bike), difficult even to push. By its width and "hollow way" character it was clearly a track of some antiquity. I'm glad I did it. But I won't be doing it again.
On the other hand, the descent was kind of fun, from 400m to 200m with stretches at 15%+...
https://cycle.travel/map/?from=51.7225, ... 68,-3.3982