From Kendal, to follow National Cycle Network 70 up through Docker
to Fox's Pulpit, down to Black Horse, up through Killington and home.
The route is mostly
either up or down. There are no coffee shops along the way.
21 miles ( 34 km) 1,960' climb (600 m) grade – hard
OS
Landranger 97 Kendal
Start Kendal Leisure Centre, Burton Rd, Kendal,
LA9 7HX
Map
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Description
Continue up the hill from
Kendal Leisure Centre on the A65. Fork left at the nearby lights, following the
BR/ Oxenholme signs. It becomes steep by the station and beyond up to the
Station Inn.
Here, going left, National
Cycle Network 70 is joined, and is followed up through Docker and to the over
the M6 bridge.
From the Station Inn the
route climbs gradually for a mile (2- km), and at the main road hairpin goes
right and immediately left (70 signs), biking on to a crossroads in another
mile, where it goes right (70/ Sedbergh) up a steep hill before flattening and
passing Fisher Tarn Reservoir on the left.
Soon you come to a white
bungalow where turn left (70) onto a flattish small lane before dropping down
past a farm, then again going left (70) soon after, onto a descending lane.
300 yds/m down this steep
hill bear right (taking care, oncoming visibility poor) – 70/ Lambrigg sign.
The road falls, climbs and
undulates to the T at Kiln Head, here going right (70) and with another climb
and descent to eventually pass over the M6. This is c 8 + miles (13 km)
from the start.
At the T just after the M6
NCN 70 goes left, but our route goes right, then in a
minute left onto the unsigned lane to
Fox's Pulpit.
Carry on up towards Fox's Pulpit, bearing right at a nearby unsigned
fork, and climbing to (Quaker) Fox's Pulpit. A long mile + (2 km) drop then
follows, finishing with the steep drop down Shackla Bank to the Black Horse
crossroads on the main A684.
The route here goes straight over (sign B6256 Kirkby Lonsdale) and
in ½ + mile (1 km) goes right just before the River Lune bridge (Killington/
Old Hutton)
The road continues parallel to the Lune, and in a mile (1 ½ km) our route takes the Killington turn
for the start of the homeward climb.
Killington lies in a dip,
with a short drop in, followed by a short 150 yd/m 20% very steep climb out
before easing and the narrow lane then finishing with a 1/3 mile (c ½ km)
further climb and short drop to the road near Three Mile House.
Here the route goes right,
and in 200 yds/m goes quickly left (unsigned) onto an open lane.
3 farms are passed and at the
lane end in 1 + mile (2 km) it goes left
and in 100 yds/m quickly right (small blue Bendrigg sign for road going
straight ahead) up to and crossing the M6 motorway bridge.
It drops down (rough surface) to Ewebank and in 100
yds/m beyond goes left at the T, and
down through Millholme to the Borrans T junction.
Here it goes left and simply drops down to the B6254 main road,
where it turns right and simply follows this road all the way back to the
Leisure Centre.
