Waterfall · 0.5 km off the route
Grey Mare's Tail
Waterfall in the Moffat Hills, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0Moffat and the Borders
From Moffat up the A708 past the Grey Mare's Tail and St Mary's Loch to Selkirk, down the A7 through Hawick and Langholm, and back west.
- Distance
- 103 miles (166 km)
- Type
- Loop
- Where
- Scottish Borders
Plotted by us, not yet ridden
Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.
Main roads
From the map
- Longest gap between fuel
- 34 miles
- Fuel stations near the line
- 9
- Curvature
- 127 ° a mile
- Campsites within 2 km
- 7
- The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 0 to mile 34. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
- The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 67 to mile 87, at 196 degrees of turning a mile.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Before you go
- The A708 is quiet but narrow in places, with sheep on the road.
- Moffat is a popular biker stop with plenty of places to eat.
On the way
- Moffat
- Grey Mare's Tail
- St Mary's Loch
- Selkirk
- Hawick
- Langholm
- Lockerbie
- Johnstonebridge
- Moffat
Ready to ride it?
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What to check before you buy coverPlaces to see on the way
Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Castle · 0.3 km off the route
Peel Hill, motte and bailey castle, Selkirk
Architectural structure in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK.
Castle · On the route
Branxholme Castle
Castle in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0
Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.