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Lancaster is also the handsomest large town in the county (it’s officially a city, but feels more like a town – and a good thing too). The only drawback is that it would be easy to be seduced into exploring Lancaster and forget about the rest of the Cycleway.

Leave the station through a gate alongside Platform 1. You may have to cross the footbridge (lifts available) to get there. To visit Castle Hill, turn left and left again, over the railway. To get straight into the Cycleway, turn right and follow the cycle path across a field.

Meet Long Marsh Lane, turn right under the railway and then immediately left on another cycle path, joining a former railway line. This runs below the Priory, through trees, then behind houses before emerging just above the river. Continue along the old railway line, past the back of Sainsbury’s. Wiggle through an underpass beneath the busy Lancaster–Morecambe road. The underpass is ridable, given reasonable bike-handling skills, but the barriers could be tricky with panniers.