Trough of Bowland
 

Somebody at work mentioned this area and said the roads were pretty good. Thing is I can't find it on the map. Anybody?

Forest of Bowland:

"Situated in the centre north west England, the Forest of Bowland covers some 802 square kilometres of rural Lancashire and North Yorkshire. It is an area of national and international importance because of its unspoiled and richly diverse landscapes and wildlife."

"Trough of Bowland"

"The Trough of Bowland is a specific river valley and high pass connecting the Wyre (at Marshaw) and Langden Brook and divides the upland core of Bowland into two main blocks. Because of its popularity it represents Bowland to many visitors. It is in fact a small part of the wider Forest of Bowland area. "

http://upload4.postimage.org/267068/trough1.jpg

Here's the link for the site I found the info on, it's got a map on it, though piccy is from Lancashire's gov.uk info page on the Trough:

http://www.forestofbowland.com/educa...AQ/index.htm#1

Hope that helps

[edit: piccy obviously not working. might need someone to explain why not, i uploaded it but all i'm getting in the post is a url link line...hmm]

Yeah not bad, but I was hoping to find some road numbers that would make for a good ride. I have next week off work and need to blow away the cobwebs.

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/

click on the getamap thing on that page and its an online os map. forest of bowland is in the large unoccupied bit (in terms of major roads) in the centre of a triangle running from Darlington to Leeds to Kendal. Zoom in a bit more and it's just left of Clitheroe. It's got roads marked but they look pretty thinly spread. Don't know if it has numbers on though.

Best I can do.

Like this one?

http://www.forestofbowland.com/img/aonbmap.jpg

Aar, that'd be the one. See, don't need help from useless old me!

PM Fubar it's his favourite run and i am sure you will get the road details from him :wink:

Its really good been around it with my dad, though he warns me that there is a few policemen hanging around with those nasty speed guns especially on sunny weekends.

Excellent roads around there

My parents used to live in Oakenclough, so have ridden round a lot of the trough, after all there are not that many roads.

I like the roads through Whitewell, Dunsop bridege, Slaidburn, long preston and down to gisburn if you are round that end of the Trough.

Or if you are comming up from the preston end of things, start off at Guys Court on the A6 Billsborrow, through Claughton, to Oakenclough, Dolphinholme, Quernmore to caton then drop down past Crook o Lune to go upto Devils at Kirby Lonsdale

Those are lovely long roads, very little traffic, few junctions, very fast and sod all coppers during the week.

Now riding country roads like these, watch well ahead, many can be narrow, little visabity round bends as they tend to have dry stone walls. so be safe and smile after you have done a few