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50.0 mi
2,604 ft
With this 50 mile amber ride I thought it would be nice to explore the beauty of Clumber Park in a little more depth so with that in mind nearly 7 miles of the route is within the Park boundaries. However, we’ll spurn any of the potential Park café options as being insufficiently speedy (service-wise), overly expensive and too fussy over things like cleats and mud and will therefore stop at one of the Club’s favourite coffee stops instead.
For a rare change we start the ride by heading south from HQ along Pleasley Road and turning off for Ulley. This will probably make me extremely unpopular because it means having to tackle Reservoir Road before the legs have even started to get warmed up but once we’re at the top most of the initial climbing is over and we can concentrate on some nice flat cycling which eventually enables us to cross the A57 at Anston and the railway line at Kiveton before using an under-utilised lane, Manor Road, which takes us neatly up to Harthill. A combination of lovely rolling landscapes enables us to eat up the miles as we pass through Elmton, Whaley Common and on to Holbeck and Norton before arriving at our café stop, The Old School House at Carburton. It is from here that we enter the Park and marvel at the number of lime trees on both sides of Lime Tree Avenue, the longest such avenue in Europe. Once the home of the Duke of Newcastle, Clumber is now owned by the National Trust. It covers 3,800 acres of parkland, lakes and woods and plays host to nearly 700,000 visitors each year.
Upon leaving Clumber we cross the A57 again and cycle straight into urban Worksop from where we ride seemlessly through the town and onwards to Carlton in Lindrick from where we turn westwards and pass through Woodsetts and Firbeck before the familiar route home culminating in a sprint finish down Royds to get our first pint ordered.
For a rare change we start the ride by heading south from HQ along Pleasley Road and turning off for Ulley. This will probably make me extremely unpopular because it means having to tackle Reservoir Road before the legs have even started to get warmed up but once we’re at the top most of the initial climbing is over and we can concentrate on some nice flat cycling which eventually enables us to cross the A57 at Anston and the railway line at Kiveton before using an under-utilised lane, Manor Road, which takes us neatly up to Harthill. A combination of lovely rolling landscapes enables us to eat up the miles as we pass through Elmton, Whaley Common and on to Holbeck and Norton before arriving at our café stop, The Old School House at Carburton. It is from here that we enter the Park and marvel at the number of lime trees on both sides of Lime Tree Avenue, the longest such avenue in Europe. Once the home of the Duke of Newcastle, Clumber is now owned by the National Trust. It covers 3,800 acres of parkland, lakes and woods and plays host to nearly 700,000 visitors each year.
Upon leaving Clumber we cross the A57 again and cycle straight into urban Worksop from where we ride seemlessly through the town and onwards to Carlton in Lindrick from where we turn westwards and pass through Woodsetts and Firbeck before the familiar route home culminating in a sprint finish down Royds to get our first pint ordered.
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Phil Daly
