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Route maps

hub: the bike Shop, deal street, Halifax

Date: 31st January 2027

Routes: 21km / 400m - GRVL / MTB

28km / 560m - GRVl

42km / 850m - MTB

77km / 1,500m - GRVL / MTB

Format: no mass start, no timings, self-navigated

No ‘one the day entry’

register 8am-11am, tea, coffee, home bakes and go ride

 

Each of the routes puts you on quality bridleways through local woods like North Dean Woods and Southowram Woods as well long, flowing double track like Carr Hall Lane, Turley Cote Lane and, on the 42km, the best till last in Coal Pit Lane, a fun descent down into Halifax. 

We've picked tracks on millstone grit as that drains well and its a winter ride. 

The 'Epic' route also takes you across remote moorland tracks eg at Standedge above Marsden, White Hill above Delph, Blackstone Edge and Withens Gate above Mankinholes. 

 
 
 
Yorkshire Divide logo
 

INspirational bit

 

Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride

Eddy Merckx

 

You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t. And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.

Keith Mills

 

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)