Castle · 0.4 km off the route
Penrith Castle
Grade I listed castle in Penrith, United Kingdom.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: David Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0North Pennines
Hartside on the A686, through Alston, over Yad Moss on the B6277 into Teesdale, then the B6276 to Brough and home along the A66.
- Distance
- 78 miles (125 km)
- Type
- Loop
- Where
- Cumbria and Durham
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
- 23 miles
- Fuel stations near the line
- 14
- Curvature
- 130 ° a mile
- Campsites within 2 km
- 25
- The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 41 to mile 64. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
- The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 0 to mile 20, at 179 degrees of turning a mile.
- One motorcycle shop is within 3 km of the line.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date.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
- Hartside and Yad Moss are exposed and high. Snow and fog arrive fast.
- The A66 is a busy trunk road with heavy goods traffic.
On the way
- Penrith
- Alston
- Langdon Beck
- Middleton-in-Teesdale
- Brough
- Appleby-in-Westmorland
- Penrith
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Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Waterfall · On the route
Ashgill Force
Waterfall in Cumbria, England, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0
Waterfall · On the route
High Force
Waterfall on the River Tees in County Durham, England.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: StoatBringer at English Wikipedia, Public domain
Waterfall · On the route
Low Force
Waterfall in County Durham, England, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Scareyb, CC BY 3.0
Castle · 1 km off the route
Augill Castle
Castle in Stainmore, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Bob Harvey, CC BY-SA 2.0.jpg){kind=link}
Castle · 0.3 km off the route
Brough Castle
Castle in Cumbria, England, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Supergolden assumed (based on copyright cla, CC BY-SA 3.0
Castle · 0.3 km off the route
Appleby Castle, uninhabited portions
Castle in Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, England, UK.
Photo: Terry Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0
Castle · 0.4 km off the route
Appleby Castle
Grade I listed English country house in Appleby-in-Westmorland, United Kingdom.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0
Castle · 0.4 km off the route
Brougham Castle
Castle near Penrith in Cumbria, England, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Michael D Beckwith, CC0
Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.