The Challenge

The Yorkshire Divide ‘Triple Crown’ is a challenge of completing three trails in one calendar year. The Triple Crown can be achieved by participating in the events or as an independent bikepacker.

 
 

The landscapes

Yorkshire is England’s largest county with 2.9 million acres home to 5 million people and an estimated 2.1 million sheep. These basic numbers give you a sense of scale but they ignore the most striking feature of Yorkshire and that is the ten distinctive landscapes that make up the county. Ten landscapes that form the bones of the YD ‘Triple Crown’:

 
 
 

The routes

Calder Divide Trail: 235km

 

Headwaters Trail: 325km

 

Source to Sea Trail: 720km

 

the tracks and lanes

Calder Divide Trail

 
 

Headwaters Trail

 
 

Source to Sea Trail

 
 
 

the badge

 
 
 

GPX Files

The gpx route file for each trail can be found on the respective page. See the menu bar / home page. The gpx files are on public view at ‘Ride with GPS'.

 

register

yorkshiredivide@gmail.com

 
 

Community Partners

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

INspirational bit

 

“I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

 

“And the moors were always there and never without their promise.”

J.B.Priestley

Bright Days (1944)

 

“Water, that strong white stuff, can here be seen at its origins. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.”

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain (1977)