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Edge of Lakeland
Type:Cycle Route
Penrith, CA11 7TP
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About
Cycle your way steadily westwards, marvelling at the increasingly dramatic views of high Lakeland fells which rise up steeply behind the villages of Mosedale and Mungrisdale. This is ‘connoisseurs Cumbria’: remote, rugged and breathtakingly beautiful. You’ll be on the popular Sea to Sea (C2C) Cycle Route for much of the time.Start/finish: Sandgate Car Park
Grade: Long·Moderate, all on-road except stony track between edge of town and Newton Rigg campus
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Routes
- Description of route - Sandgate, Penrith, Greystoke, Mungrisdale, Newton Reigny, Skelton
- Length of route (miles) - 31
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