Tag: cycle route

Down Stair Foot Lane Adel, past Adel Woods up the hill to T junction, left and almost immediately right onto Alwoodley Lane. Pass all the posh houses and golf clubs to traffic lights. Straight across onto Wigton Lane or Millionaires Row until you reach Shadwell. At the T junction turn right and left at the lights onto Shadwell Lane. Follow on to main St and at cross roads turn right onto Coal Rd for a short while on A58 then take a left continuing on Coal Rd. At the next cross roads take a left onto Shelton lane, at the end of which take a right onto Thorner Lane. You hit the A64 at the end where you turn left for a few hundred yards then turn right onto Scholes Lane. Carry on through Scholes – it becomes Main St. On the way to Barwick in Elmet now. When you hit Leeds road bear left and stay on Leeds Road until you reach a left hand bend Where the road becomes Main Street , turn right to Long Lane and first left onto Chapple lane. Stay on chapple Lane until you reach a T junction where you turn right onto Aberford Road. This become Cattle Lane and is a long stretch down to Main st at Aberford where you turn right. The becomes Bunkers Hill where you will see what used to be Aberford Alms houses. Bloody grand for that! https://www.parlington.co.uk/structures.lasso?process=3&subProcess=struct13

Follow the road which runs beside the A1, at the T junction turn right onto Aberford Road. Carry pn until you come to a roundabout going straight across over the M1. Down the A612 across another roundabout . After the primary school look for Bar Lane on the left. Turn down Bar Lane, over the railway and watch out for Derwent Ave on your right because just after this you will turn off right onto the Sustrans Route 697.

Garforth to Woodlesford (The Linesway)

This delightful traffic-free route travels from the small town of Garforth just outside Leeds through lovely countryside, passing a nature reserve and an RSPB site, along a river and canal ending at Woodlesford station.

To follow the route:

• Exit Garforth station and follow the White Rose [WYCC] signs until you pick up signs to National Route 697 and The Linesway and join this lovely greenway.
• You soon enter Townclose Hills Nature Reserve (or Billy Wood as it’s known locally) on the edge of Kippax. From the grassland plateau, there are beautiful near-panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
• Continue along the route to Allerton Bywater, where there is a café if you want to take a break. Turn right at Owl Wood Cottage towards Woodend and continue until you pick up signs to National Route 67, part of the Transpennine Trail.
• Pause for a short detour at Woodend to visit RSPB St Aidans on the banks of the River Aire. The reserve is teeming with wildlife and is home to thousands of birds, brown hares, roe deer and insects – all living in a stunning landscape of vast reedbeds, grassland, woodland, lakes, ponds and islands. This is a great spot for a picnic.
• Continue along the route, cross the River Aire and follow the river, then the canal to Woodlesford, passing Woodlesford Locks.
• From here you can hop on a train from Woodlesford station.

If you want to extend the route, you could continue onto the fantastic Rothwell Country Park.

When you reach the end of the Line, I planned to make my way along the river here but was not able to, so turn right and any the T junction turn right onto Leeds road – go along here until you see Queen St on the left and turn down here to St. Aidens RSPB reserve

I stopped here for a bite to eat and a drink. Its a great reserve. You can ride respectfully through the reserve which I did, making my way through across the river and onto the Sustrans 67 route. This follows the Woodlesford canal section.

When you can see the motorway ahead at Woodlesford you cross over the canal via a lock bridge and ride between the canal and river . This is where it all got a bit complicated and im not sure how I eventually got to Temple Newham. I then made my way home via main roads which wasn’t much fun but I’d had enough by then lol.

Some lovely off road bits.