Summary
Out through NATLAND to near FARLETON, a loop to HUTTON ROOF, BURTON and back to near FARLETON, then home via HINCASTER and SEDGWICK.28 miles (44 km) 1,355 ' climb (413 m) Grade – moderate overall OS 97 Kendal.
This is a mostly flat start and finish , with nearly all the climbing in the middle.
Start - Kendal Leisure Centre, Burton Rd, Kendal, LA9 7HX
Map
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Description
From the back of Kendal Leisure Centre go right on the shared path/ cycleway,. This is National Cycle Network 6 (NCN 6), which you follow for 4 miles. It quickly passes up to the main road, over via the central refuge and down then through the wood to soon join the public road by Clarks warehouse.Continue through Natland and in a couple of minutes follow NCN 6, which bears left up a little hill and then right at the top. The route soon drops down by a cemetery and goes over the crossroads (6/ Stainton Cross – take care here, limited visibility).
A mile further on (2 km) a canal bridge is crossed, and immediately after take the left (unsigned) fork (NCN 6 here going right). In a few minutes you come to the crossroads by Lane Farm. Here go right, over the dual carriageway and then left by Woodlands Garden Centre. Here the Lakes & Dales Loop is joined (blue sign with bike inside slightly odd shaped circle) and is followed for 5+ miles (9 km) to Hutton Roof.
In a few minutes this lane crosses over the M6 and quickly arrives at a main road with a farm and industrial buildings and the auction mart on the other side of the road. Go right (L &D signs, again take care, limited visibility) and then take the 1st left in 100 yds/m (L & D). Keep straight ahead on this narrow lane, and turn right at a bridge (L & D).
In 600 yds/m go left (L & D) into a narrow and rising lane. Most of the climbing starts here. After a 600 yd/m climb it flattens and after a couple of gates arrives at Newbiggin. Go left downhill (L & D) and in 400 yds/m straight on (Hutton Roof sign) for another climbing lane, then turning right at the crossroads (L & D) and up past the church to and straight on through Hutton Roof village (Burton sign) (L & D leaves here, going left) to climb to a T at Johnson House. The vast majority of the climbing has now been done.
Take a right here (sign Burton) and follow the lumpy road down to Burton, 3 miles (5 km) away. At the main road go left (Carnforth) and immediately right (Yealand/ weight restriction). After crossing over the M6 you soon cross the canal and the railway, here turning immediately right (unsigned) onto a lane parallel to the railway.
Turn right at the end in ¾ mile (1+ km), passing under the railway bridge, and follow the road into Holme village, where go right (pub opposite) and immediately left (North Road). Passing under the M6 bridge, turn left onto the A6070 (Crooklands/ Kendal).
In a few minutes you rejoin the road you came out on, and retrace your steps for 1 ½ miles (2+ km). So go left (now back on the L & D, Unsuitable for HGVs/ brown Fishery sign) at the farm/ auction mart opposite and follow on to the crossroads by the garden centre. Here you leave your outward route.
Pass straight over (Heversham, L & D) and soon come to a short sharp hill just past the railway, at the top turning right (unsigned) onto White Lane. Again pass straight over at the nearby crossroads (Hincaster/ Kendal).
Follow the road for a couple of miles, to pass over a dual carriageway, then bearing right in 300 yds/m at the Sedgwick village sign (here leaving L & D, which goes straight ahead). In Sedgwick go right, under the canal bridge, and simply continue on to Kendal. By Natland you again rejoin the outward route, so retrace your steps back to the Leisure Centre, either on the off-road cycleway or 4th right into Rinkfield as the tarmac option.
