Ride.
- Miles: 200
- Start: anywhere on the route
- End: anywhere on the route
- Time: 6 to 9 hours
- Suitability: A2 and above
Two National Parks, two lakes, one river, one National Landscape, one pike and the sea. Country roads, single track roads, dual carriageways.
What more can you want from a day?
We started at Rivington Barn and after a coffee we set off for an ice-cream at Devils Bridge. From Kirkby Lonsdale we headed to Windermere and took advantage of the free motorbike parking, had a little chat and wander around the docks then headed off to Barrow-in-Furness via Coniston on the flowing back roads
Rivington Pike is a hill on Winter Hill, part of the West Pennine Moors at Rivington, Chorley in Lancashire, England. The nearest towns are Adlington and Horwich. The Pike Tower is a prominent local landmark located below the summit, it is part of Lever Park.
See our review of Devils bridge, Kirby Lonsdale.
Windermere or Lake Windermere is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District. It is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, but considerably smaller than the largest Scottish lochs and Northern Irish loughs.
The lake is about 11 miles (18 km) in length and 1 mile (1.6 km) at its widest, has a maximum depth of 64 metres (210 ft), and has an elevation of 39 metres (128 ft) above sea level.
Coniston Water is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. It is the third largest by volume, after Windermere and Ullswater, and the fifth-largest by area. The lake has a length of 5 miles (8.7 km), a maximum width of 730 metres (800 yd), and a maximum depth of 56.1 m (184 ft 1 in).
Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just “Barrow“) in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness.
