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Stage 9a The Wigan Link

Stage 10 Appley Bridge to Croston

Stage 11 Croston to Whalley

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Day Ride 1 Lancaster–Silverdale one-way

Day Ride 2 Lancaster–Silverdale–Lancaster

Day Ride 3 Lancaster–High Bentham

Day Ride 4 Lancaster–High Bentham–Lancaster

Day Ride 5 High Bentham–Slaidburn–High Bentham

Day Ride 6 High Bentham–Long Preston

Day Ride 7 Clitheroe–Slaidburn–Clitheroe

Day Ride 8 A circuit from Whalley

Day Ride 9 A circuit from Colne

Day Ride 10 Colne–Accrington

Day Ride 11 Entwistle–Haslingden–Ramsbottom–Entwistle

Day Ride 12 A circuit from Leyland

Day Ride 13 A West Lancashire circuit

Day Ride 14 Preston–Whalley

Day Ride 15 Whalley–Longridge–Whalley

Day Ride 16 Preston–Longridge–Woodplumpton–Preston

Day Ride 17 Kirkham–Lancaster

Appendix A Further information

Appendix B Transport

Appendix C Bike shops

ROUTE SUMMARY TABLES

Final stages of the climb of Farley Lane (Stage 11)

Waddington (Stage 3)

INTRODUCTION

Cycling is one of the best ways of getting around, and of seeing places, that has ever been devised. It’s fast enough to get somewhere, yet slow enough to see everything along the way. And you don’t just see: you can use your other senses too. You can hear the birdsong and smell the flowers. Cars don’t just travel too fast, they also insulate their occupants from the world outside – not least by creating noise and smells of their own. Cycling also means you feel the country: as Ernest Hemingway said, ‘it is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.’