Loop.
Including Buttertubs Pass.
- Miles: 108
- Start: Devils Bridge
- End: Ingleton
- Time: 3 to 6 hours
- Suitability: all bikes and riders
- Devils Bridge
- Hawes
- Buttertubs Pass
- Thwaite
- Leyburn
- Skipton
- Ingleton
Starting off at Devils Bridge, a perfect start to any ride, through to Hawes and on to Buttertubs Pass, which is a scenic high road in the Yorkshire Dales, England.
Buttertubs Pass winds north from Simonstone near Hawes to Thwaite and Muker, passing by 20-meter-deep (66 ft) limestone potholes known as the Buttertubs. The name is said to come from farmers who, on their way to market, would rest there and lower their butter into the potholes to keep it cool in hot weather. The road is well-known locally as a tough cycling climb and was highlighted as the second and highest of three categorized climbs in Stage One of the 2014 Tour de France. Jeremy Clarkson featured the road in the “Motoring and the New Romantics” episode of the British series Clarkson’s Car Years. This road has also been used many times in the BBC’s Top Gear series for test driving cars.
From Thwaite head South East to the market town of Leyburn and on to Skipton (the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales) for a coffee, then ride up the A65 to Ingleton (and even carry on to finish the ride back at Devils Bridge.
