Lovely 25 mile ride today. Sunny but with a nippy wind.
Ride from Adel St. Johns Church up to five lane ends bear slight right onto lane to Eccup Resevoir. Carry on past the reservoir, when you reach the main Harrogate Road cross over and carry on up a cycleway (bit muddy) which take you past the back of the Leeds Grammar school, down Manor lane and wow are there some Manors there. You reach Wigton Lane and more millionaire houses. Turn left, eventually meeting a T junction by the Dextor pub. Turn left and take the first right onto Tarn Lane. These lanes are usually quite quiet. At the cross roads go straight on and at the next cross roads do the same. You go through Scarcroft village and meet the Wetherby road where you go straight over again into Thorner Lane. Eventually you meet a triangle in the road, bear right onto Milner Lane, which takes you to Thorner village where you take a left onto Bramham Road. At the t junction turn left onto Thorner Road. At the T-junction turn left onto Thorne Lane eventually bearing right onto Holme Farm Lane and keep left to take you to the A58. Go left for a few hundred yards and take a right to Bardsey. Carry on up Church Lane ( some very interesting history in Bardsey is on my list) look out for Spear Fir on the right and turn down here. At the end turn left onto Wike Lane. This road takes you back to the Dexter pub where you turn right and follow Wigton and Alwoodley Lane until you reach the junction with King Lane where you turn left and first right down Staircase Lane, past Adel Woods, up the hill and turn right past York Gate Gardens until you find yourself back at Adel church where you turn left.
I decided I would like to catalogue the walks that I can do from my front door. Today was a 7.6 mile walk via Paul’s Pond, Bramhope, the Ebor Way the New Inn at Eccup then back via theLeeds Country Way, Golden Acre, Cocker Farm back to Paul’s Pond and home.