Sleights near Whitby to Pickering

[bullencraig]

Interesting route from sleights near whitby to pickering.

Found this by giving the map to a friend and telling him to get us from A to B via country roads.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5757819

Not suitable for wide vehicles (glad my 320td has foldable mirrors) includes 1 gate and 4 fords to cross 1 being 12" deep after snow and rain.


craig

[SmilerFTM]

Looks familiar

http://goo.gl/maps/u55Ki

I do the link I've put on in a kind of figure of eight but if you split the route into two loops then the loop on the right takes in what you've got there and is as you say very tight, the loop on the left side is better for hooning with the fabulous (imo anyway) B1257 from Helmsley to Stokesley

Edited by SmilerFTM on Wednesday 12th December 18:30

[bullencraig]

thanks. ive saved your route and will try and incorporate it into our next road trip out that way.

I love going on road trips into the dales as not only are the views amazing but the driving is always excellent. Especially good as most of my friends hate driving in the country apart one who cant drive yet so its always me who "has" to drive lol

craig

[coppice]

Sorry to be a pedant but Sleights and Pickering are NYork Moors, not the Dales , which are west of A1. Although. confusingly there are plenty of dales in the moors eg Rosedale, Eskdale, Ryedale etc

[Mostro]

I suspect he means "road trips into the dales [as well]"....

Love the Dales and the N. York moors but even when you get a good clear run on the best roads, it's a fairly short-lived affair. I much prefer to go on up to Scotch Corner and enjoy the comparatively vast and deserted expanse of Northumberland instead.

[coppice]

Agree- I live in the Moors but to be frank the roads are relatively few and often quite busy- or single track, bumpy and slow. The legendary B1257 is fine but the militant nutter end of the biker crew have spoiled it by selfish and dangerous riding.If I want a decent run not much beats Barnard Castle to Alston; or the run up to Duns through Northumberland and Jedburgh.

[SmilerFTM]

coppice said:

Agree- I live in the Moors but to be frank the roads are relatively few and often quite busy- or single track, bumpy and slow. The legendary B1257 is fine but the militant nutter end of the biker crew have spoiled it by selfish and dangerous riding.If I want a decent run not much beats Barnard Castle to Alston; or the run up to Duns through Northumberland and Jedburgh.

Difficult to argue with that, I really enjoy doing this route below from my hometown of Hartlepool taking in the B6277, The Hartside pass and some of the roads around Blanchland

http://goo.gl/maps/lVF5d

[Mark Benson]

Mostro said:

I suspect he means "road trips into the dales [as well]"....

Love the Dales and the N. York moors but even when you get a good clear run on the best roads, it's a fairly short-lived affair. I much prefer to go on up to Scotch Corner and enjoy the comparatively vast and deserted expanse of Northumberland instead.

I live close to Scotch Corner, it's another 40 miles or so to Northumberland - do you mean Teesdale?

Because if you do (and I suspect you do) it's one of the best kept driving secrets in the country - even in summer it's perfectly possible to drive for miles and not see another soul, the roads and scenery are as good as the Dales and the NY Moors but most tourists don't venture out of the National Parks, meaning only locals and sheep.

Just look at anywhere north of the A66 (running west from Scotch Corner) and take your pick (as coppice mentioned, Barnard Castle to Alston is a good one).

Edited by Mark Benson on Tuesday 18th December 10:44

[bullencraig]

coppice...sorry meant dales as well as.

Normally spend alot of the summer up around aysgarth, hawes, butter tubs pass, reeth and tan hill.

We normally go from doncaster up the A1 to bedale through leyburn then up through reeth to tan hill and stop off for food and a beer then back down via butter tubs pass through hawes down through oughtershaw, hubberholme,buckden back onto the B6160 to kettlewell, then we double back on ourselves and drop down through arncliffe, malham tarn, malham, kirby malham, airton, winterburn, reconnect with the B6160, through burnsall, (stopping off at bolton abbey and the strid if time permits) through ilkley and otley, harewood, join the A1 again and back to doncaster.

its a 210 mile round and takes the best part of 7 hours to drive but its worth it for the views etc.

craig

[Mostro]

Mark Benson said:

I live close to Scotch Corner, it's another 40 miles or so to Northumberland - do you mean Teesdale?

Because if you do (and I suspect you do) it's one of the best kept driving secrets in the country - even in summer it's perfectly possible to drive for miles and not see another soul

Yeah through Teesdale, usually via Alston which I think is actually just in Cumbria, and then anywhere between the A686 to the west and the B6306/B6278 to the east. A lot of even the unclassified roads are smooth and wide thanks to the area's history of quarrying and mining. Beyond that, there's on to Kielder and the Borders for more road nirvana (see EVO COTY) within daytrip reach.

Back on topic, I've not managed to go for a run on the B1257 for years now; must make it a new year's resolution! Blakey Ridge is great for a few short miles if you can avoid the sheep.

Edited by Mostro on Monday 24th December 23:00

[Mostro]

Wooah! What happened there?! There was definitely only one post when I went in to edit it! Or was it one too many sherries?....

Edited by Mostro on Wednesday 26th December 22:16

[Mostro]

Wooah! What happened there?! There was definitely only one post when I went in to edit it! Or was it one too many sherries?....

Edited by Mostro on Wednesday 26th December 22:17

[SmilerFTM]

So good those roads only four mentions will suffice