The Challenge

Three Ridings is the challenge of completing three Yorkshire Divide long distance trails in one calendar year by self-supported bikepacking. The reward is an embroidered cloth badge. Made in Leeds.

 

the three bikepacking trails

 

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 one of the most distinctive features of Yorkshire and that is the diversity of its landscapes.

These landscapes and the estimated 6,000km of old tracks that criss-cross the gravel, peat and stone within the Humber Basin form the bones of the ‘Three Ridings’:

 

the tracks and lanes

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

the badge

 
 
 

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)