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KDCS route 4 - Mealbank, Grayrigg and Docker

Summary

To   BURNESIDE, MEALBANK, PATTON BRIDGE, GRAYRIGG, DOCKER  and OXENHOLME

18 miles (30 km)    1,400' climb (426 m)         Grade – hard            OS 97   Kendal and Morecambe

This is a short ride of ups and downs and is a nice evening ride. Shop and pub at Burneside and pub at Station Inn near Oxenholme railway station only.

Start -  Kendal Leisure Centre, Burton Rd, Kendal, LA9 7HX

Map


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Description

From the back of Kendal Leisure Centre go left on the shared pedestrian/ bike path (National Cycle Network 6) for a mile (2 km), crossing over a road half way along.

At the end follow the National Cycle Network 6 signs to and through a small park diagonally on your left (take care – pedestrians and blind bends), back on yourself for 50 yds/m on a public road, then right and immediately right on a shared path to follow the river through a larger park.

At the path end go straight on the footpath (bit confusing here)to the nearby bridge, cross the road (zebra crossing) and go left over the bridge (all NCN 6 signs). Turn immediately right to use the shared path alongside the river again (shared path signs only), past a school, over the road and alongside the river to join a road by the Magistrates Court, going right (sign 6, maybe overgrown).

Continue to Burneside (shop/ pub), where turn right (sign Skelsmergh) to pass by the Spar shop and follow the road and signs Skelsmergh/ A6 to the A6, avoiding all turnings off it.

There  go right (Kendal) and in 200 yds/ m left towards Mealbank. In ½ + mile (1 km) bear left (effectively straight on) by a bridge to commence a long and quite hard climb before dropping quickly down to Patton Bridge.

Carry on over the bridge (Whinfell/ Grayrigg), then taking the middle road at a 3 way junction in 100 yds/ m. follow the signs and undulating road to Grayrigg.

There turn left (unsigned) on the main road, and in 50 yds/ m first right back on yourself (obscure Lambrigg sign).

Continue on until, just past the railway, bear right at the scissor crossroads (Moorfold/ Thatchmoor Head house sign only) then soon left at the unsigned T junction and immediately right at Kiln Head (unsuitable for HGVs), where we join NCN route 70.

After a mile or so (2 km) the road drops down and then climbs steeply, going straight on at a junction (70/ New Hutton) and right (70) in 400 yds/ m to carry on climbing past Cragg Farm. From here it is all flat or downhill.

Follow the 70 signs, soon right at Tollbar Cottage (white house on your left), past Fisher Tarn reservoir then in a few minutes down a hill and left at a crossroads by some houses (70) and in another mile (2 km)  go straight over the main road by a hairpin (70) and down to the Station Inn.


Here we leave NCN 70 and turn right on NCN 6 (sign Kendal) for a quick descent past the station and straight ahead through traffic lights back the Leisure Centre.
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