Todmorden Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Really Cycle · 2015. 11. 4. · Todmorden Hebden Bridge...
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modestly magnificent visitcalderdale.com Centre Vale Park A646 A646 A6033 Halifax Rd Water St Dale St George St Rose St Doghouse Lane Well Ln Longfield Rd River Calder Rochdale Canal Osbourne Place Cambridge St Derdale St Station App. 66 66 Salford Patmos Buckley Wood Stansfield Rd Wellington Rd Burnley Rd Hallroyd Rd AP AP to Burnley (M65) to Hebden Bridge to Rochdale (M62) i BS Cycle Factory Bike Shop 3 Calder Holmes Park A6033 River Calder Old Gate Bridge Gate Crown St Hope St Albert St Holme St Shelf Rd Hebble End Melbourne St Brunswick St Central St Birchcliffe Fairfield Machpelah to Hebden Bridge train station to Halifax to Todmorden to Keighley AP New Rd A646 Heptonstall Rd The Buttress 68 68 68 AP 66 66 Aquaduct Station Rd AP Rochdale Canal 68 Market St 6 5 i The Bicycle Den Blazing Saddles St Georges Sq Hebden Water 7 B6138 Erringden Rd River Calder Great Stubb George St Nest Lane Stocks Av Caldene Avenue Thrush Hill Rd Cragg Rd Rochdale Canal 66 66 River Elphin Daisy Bank Playing Fields Scout Rd 68 68 Brearley Woods Midgley Rd y Rd Midgley Rd A646 Burnley Rd Cragg Vale Road Climb 8 AP AP to Halifax to Hebden Bridge 9 Todmorden Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Todmorden is home to Stoodley Pike monument, and has some of the best mountain bike terrain in Yorkshire with miles of bridleway networks. Explore the independent shops & cafes, thriving markets and amazing architecture. Just outside the town centre is Centre Vale Park, where you can enjoy crazy golf, tennis, bowling and events throughout the year. You’ll also find The Lucky Dog, as made famous by Derren Brown in his channel 4 TV show ‘The Experiments’. The life sized statue, installed next to the Memorial Gardens, has gained a wide-spread reputation for bringing good luck to anybody that gives it a friendly pat. Lucky Dog at Centre Vale Park Hebden Bridge, voted as the “fourth funkiest town in the world” and “the greatest town in Europe” is full of great independent shops, many of which showcase the work of local artists. On the outskirts of the town, a favourite stop for cyclists is Stubbing Wharf Pub situated on the banks of the canal. In the town there are plenty of cafes to fuel up with coffee and cake, Coffee Cali is cycling friendly with lots of bike racks to the rear and there’s even one smack in the middle of Calder Holmes Park, which sits between the Rochdale Canal and the River Calder. Blazing Saddles bike shop offers free bike lock hire too for that much needed pit stop. Stubbing Wharf Pub Coffee Cali Calder Holmes Park Blazing Saddles bike shop 3 4 5 6 7 Lair of 18th century counterfeiting gang the ‘Cragg Vale Coiners’ , birthplace of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes; Mytholmroyd is home to the World Dock Pudding Championships. The steep and winding Cragg Road, the longest continuous incline in England, leads from Mytholmroyd, winding its way up to beautiful heather-clad moorland 1,000 feet above. The Dusty Miller pub by the side of the canal offers a warm welcome and good food. Also on the canalside you can read one of the many interpretation boards that tell the amazing history of the canal. Close by is the sculpture of a crow, commemorating the work of poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Newly opened Craggies Café at Cragg Vale Business park offers a welcome cycle friendly pit stop for those attempting Cragg Vale. Ted’s House Cragg Vale Incline 8 9 66 66 A58 A6139 River Calder Calder & Hebble Navigation Rochdale Canal Tuel Lane Church View Old Cawsey 12 Old Cawsey Croft St Hollins Mill Lane Station Rd Holmes Road Tower Hill Victoria Road Jubilee Rooms Tuel Lane Lock Deepest in the UK Leisure Centre West St 68 68 Canal Wharf A58 Lower Hollins Market Sowerby Bridge The Rochdale Canal and Calder & Hebble Navigation meet at Sowerby Bridge and the Wharf area is the heart of the town’s great food and drink offer, with the Moorings Pub & Kitchen, Temujin Mongolian stir fry and Gabriel’s Coffee Lounge. Visit Tuel Lane Lock, the deepest in the country, and the adjacent Sowerby Bridge Market. Sowerby Bridge Wharf 12 Luddenden- foot Walsden Famed for the Summit Tunnel and the highest canal lock in the country, Walsden is home to the ever-popular Grandma Pollard’s Chippy “frying tonight” for over 50 years! (Not open at the weekends) and the impressive Gordon Rigg Garden Centre, with everything from plants and greenery to crafts, home furnishings and a café. Grandma Pollards Chippy Gordon Riggs Luddendenfoot may only be small but there’s more sculpture and interpretation boards by the canal-side Holmes Park, a couple of pubs and a restaurant. The village of Luddenden on the millstone grit flanks of the valley above has been a conservation area since 1973 and offers some great views. Jerusalem Farm Local Nature Reserve & camp site Holmes Park Cragg Vale Coiners 66 Luddenden Foot AP rley 11 AP AP 66 PBW Walsden 1 2 The tranquility of Mytholmroyd belies a murky past involving an 18th century counterfeiting gang, the ‘Cragg Vale Coiners’. This gang’s activities were said to be so damaging that they threatened to wreck Britain’s currency. ‘King’ David Hartley and his men used ironworking as a cover to clip the edges from gold coins, milling the edges back so the change was unnoticeable, and making counterfeit coins from the shavings whilst returning the clipped coins into circulation. Rumours of the gang’s activities reached the authorities, who sent an excise man named William Deighton to investigate. Deighton was murdered and the subsequent reward offered for information led to the arrest of over 30 people, including ‘King David’ Hartley, who was sentenced to death and on April 28th 1770. HEBDEN ver Elphin Cragg Vale Withens Clough Reservoir N N N N Sunderland Pasture 9 Deacon Hill Wood Whams Wood Swillington 10 11 1 2 T h e R e a l l y B i g C y c l e G u i d e W E S T
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Todmorden Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd
Todmorden is home to Stoodley Pike monument, and has some of the best mountain bike terrain in Yorkshire with miles of bridleway networks. Explore the independent shops & cafes, thriving markets and amazing architecture.
Just outside the town centre is Centre Vale Park, where you can enjoy crazy golf, tennis, bowling and events throughout the year. You’ll also find The Lucky Dog, as made famous by Derren Brown in his channel 4 TV show ‘The Experiments’.
The life sized statue, installed next to the Memorial Gardens, has gained a wide-spread reputation for bringing good luck to anybody that gives it a friendly pat.
Lucky Dog at Centre Vale Park
Hebden Bridge, voted as the “fourth funkiest town in the world” and “the greatest town in Europe” is full of great independent shops, many of which showcase the work of local artists.
On the outskirts of the town, a favourite stop for cyclists is Stubbing Wharf Pub situated on the banks of the canal. In the town there are plenty of cafes to fuel up with coffee and cake, Coffee Cali is cycling friendly with lots of bike racks to the rear and there’s even one smack in the middle of Calder
Holmes Park, which sits between the Rochdale Canal and the River Calder.
Blazing Saddles bike shop offers free bike lock hire too for that much needed pit stop.
Stubbing Wharf Pub
Coffee Cali
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Lair of 18th century counterfeiting gang the ‘Cragg Vale Coiners’ , birthplace of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes; Mytholmroyd is home to the World Dock Pudding Championships.
The steep and winding Cragg Road, the longest continuous incline in England, leads from Mytholmroyd, winding its way up to beautiful heather-clad moorland 1,000 feet above. The Dusty Miller pub by the side of the canal offers a warm welcome and good food.
Also on the canalside you can read one of the many interpretation boards that tell the amazing history of the canal. Close by is the sculpture of a crow, commemorating the work of poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Newly opened Craggies Café at Cragg Vale Business park offers a welcome cycle friendly pit stop for those attempting Cragg Vale.
Ted’s House
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The Rochdale Canal and Calder & Hebble Navigation meet at Sowerby Bridge and the Wharf area is the heart of the town’s great food and drink offer, with the Moorings Pub & Kitchen, Temujin Mongolian stir fry and Gabriel’s Coffee Lounge.
Visit Tuel Lane Lock, the deepest in the country, and the adjacent Sowerby Bridge Market.
Sowerby Bridge Wharf
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Luddenden-foot Walsden
Famed for the Summit Tunnel and the highest canal lock in the country, Walsden is home to the ever-popular Grandma Pollard’s Chippy “frying tonight” for over 50 years! (Not open at the weekends) and the impressive Gordon Rigg Garden Centre, with everything from plants and greenery to crafts, home furnishings and a café.
Grandma Pollards Chippy
Gordon Riggs
Luddendenfoot may only be small but there’s more sculpture and interpretation boards by the canal-side Holmes Park, a couple of pubs and a restaurant. The village of Luddenden on the millstone grit flanks of the valley above has been a conservation area since 1973 and offers some great views.
Jerusalem Farm Local Nature Reserve & camp site
Holmes Park
Cragg Vale Coiners
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National Cycle Network Route 6868
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Reservoir
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WEST CALDERDALE CYCLE MAP
HarleyWood
BackWood
Cross Stone
MAP KEY
National Cycle Network Route 6666
National Cycle Network Route 6868
PBW Pennine Bridleway
AP Access Point
1 Points of Interest
tdf 2014 Tour De France Route
Railway Station
i Tourist Information Centre
The Calderdale West Cycle Map highlights in pink the areas that offer easy fl at cycling. All other routes and roads outside this area should be considered hard or very hard due to the steep sided valleys of Calderdale.
Easy Flat Cycling
GreatRock
WalsdenMoor
KnollHill
MankinholesTopOldroyd
Swillington
Horsehold
Upper Eastwood
SourhallFlower Scar
Hill
Noon Hill
Shore Moor
Great BrideStones
BusStation
Cock HillMoor
Midgley
MidgleyMoor
Brearley
Triangle
Norland Moor
BoulderClough
to Halifax
to Oxenhopeand Keighley
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iHebden Bridge Golf Club
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The tranquility of Mytholmroyd belies a murky past involving an 18th century counterfeiting gang, the ‘Cragg Vale Coiners’. This gang’s activities were said to be so damaging that they threatened to wreck Britain’s currency.
‘King’ David Hartley and his men used ironworking as a cover to clip the edges from gold coins, milling the edges back so the change was unnoticeable, and making counterfeit coins from the shavings whilst returning the clipped coins into circulation.
Rumours of the gang’s activities reached the authorities, who sent an excise man named William Deighton to investigate. Deighton was murdered and the subsequent reward offered for information led to the arrest of over 30 people, including ‘King David’ Hartley, who was sentenced to death and on April 28th 1770.
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ERRINGDEN CP
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River Elphin
Hebd
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Friendly
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Reservoir
Gorpley Reservoir
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Eastwood
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Gauxholme
Bottomley
Warland
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StoodleyPikeMonument
Robinwood
SunderlandPasture
Old Town
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Rochdale and M62
to Bacupand Rawtenstall
to Burnley, M65
to Rochdale and M62
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Turley Holes and Higher House Moor
Langfi eld Common
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RoughHeyWood
Deacon HillWood
WhamsWood
Scout Wood
WEST CALDERDALE CYCLE MAP
HarleyWood
BackWood
Cross Stone
MAP KEY
National Cycle Network Route 6666
National Cycle Network Route 6868
PBW Pennine Bridleway
AP Access Point
1 Points of Interest
tdf 2014 Tour De France Route
Railway Station
i Tourist Information Centre
The Calderdale West Cycle Map highlights in pink the areas that offer easy fl at cycling. All other routes and roads outside this area should be considered hard or very hard due to the steep sided valleys of Calderdale.
Easy Flat Cycling
GreatRock
WalsdenMoor
KnollHill
MankinholesTopOldroyd
Swillington
Horsehold
Upper Eastwood
SourhallFlower Scar
Hill
Noon Hill
Shore Moor
Great BrideStones
BusStation
Cock HillMoor
Midgley
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Brearley
Triangle
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to Halifax
to Oxenhopeand Keighley
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Rochdale and M62
to Bacupand Rawtenstall
to Burnley, M65
to Rochdale and M62
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Turley Holes and Higher House Moor
Langfi eld Common
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RoughHeyWood
Deacon HillWood
WhamsWood
Scout Wood
WEST CALDERDALE CYCLE MAP
HarleyWood
BackWood
Cross Stone
MAP KEY
National Cycle Network Route 6666
National Cycle Network Route 6868
PBW Pennine Bridleway
AP Access Point
1 Points of Interest
tdf 2014 Tour De France Route
Railway Station
i Tourist Information Centre
The Calderdale West Cycle Map highlights in pink the areas that offer easy fl at cycling. All other routes and roads outside this area should be considered hard or very hard due to the steep sided valleys of Calderdale.
Easy Flat Cycling
GreatRock
WalsdenMoor
KnollHill
MankinholesTopOldroyd
Swillington
Horsehold
Upper Eastwood
SourhallFlower Scar
Hill
Noon Hill
Shore Moor
Great BrideStones
BusStation
Cock HillMoor
Midgley
MidgleyMoor
Brearley
Triangle
Norland Moor
BoulderClough
to Halifax
to Oxenhopeand Keighley
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iHebden Bridge Golf Club
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