Summary
A figure of 8 from Kendal up to and around KILLINGTON RESERVOIR16 miles (25 km) 1,330' climb (405 m) Grade – hard uphill first half, better after that.
A short summer evening's ride, but hard enough to give a feeling of a good ride. Nice views from the top.
OS Landranger 97 (Kendal) Start - Kendal Leisure Centre, Burton Rd, Kendal, LA9 7HX
Map
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Description
Start 150 yds/m uphill from Kendal Leisure Centre
by crossing the road (right) via the pedestrian refuge from the left hand
pavement onto the cycleway (steep drop at start), following it soon to join
Natland road by Clarks warehouse. Continue to Natland, soon reached.
There turn left by the shop
(Oxenholme/ railway sign) and quickly right and left at the village green to go
up Helm Lane by the church. Here you have now joined National Cycleway Number
70 (Walney to Wear).
At the top cross straight over
to a small rising lane (W2W 70 sign), at the end of which turn right by the
Station Inn (NCN 70 carries straight on
here).
In 1 ½ miles (2+ km) in Old
Hutton/ Middleshaw turn left and follow the Ewebank signs up the steady climb
(bearing left in a couple of minutes) to arrive at Ewebank. Here go left, and
then in 200 yds/ m right (both unsigned) at the T .
From here it is 2 ½ miles (4
km) up and down to the next junction. The climb is steep, 14% and lasts
for ½ + mile (1 km). There are grand
views at the top before a rapid descent down and over the motorway, then up to
the T junction.
Turn right (Old Hutton sign)
and down, soon taking the first right ( Bendrigg Lodge sign) past the
reservoir, and the next right in a
further mile (1.5 km), unsigned but by a wood (small Bendrigg Lodge sign goes
straight ahead).
After going over the nearby M6
the potholed lane drops quickly back to Ewebank and the T junction just beyond,
where go left downhill (where not long ago you turned right and uphill).
At the T junction past a small
settlement (Millholme) bear left (unsigned) and in 200 yds go right (unsigned) up and down a short hill. At the
bottom go left along a small lumpy lane and left again in ¾ mile (1+ km) onto
Beehive Lane, then in a few minutes joining the main road you came out on.
Here turn right to soon pass the Station Inn and drop down to
the station and Kendal beyond, bearing right at the lights back to the Leisure
Centre.