Route One – Colliers Wood and Pamela’s Larches
9 miles, circular route, at an average speed of 6 mph will be 1 ½ hours of cycling.
Colliers Wood on the B600.
Proceed along Moorgreen Road towards Moorgreen Reservoir.
At the junction with Willey Road, take the right turn, the reservoir will then be on your left.
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Immediately turn left onto the track that runs alongside of the reservoir on your left hand side (keeping Beauvale Lodge on your right).
Approximately halfway along the reservoir there is a path to the left, take this path which will allow you to continue along side of the reservoir.
This pathway will then meet another pathway running to the left and the right.
Turn right (if you go left you will come to Felley Mill Lane which is the wrong way) then turn immediately left going in a Northerly direction.
Stay on this pathway until it becomes Weavers Lane.
Proceed on Weavers Lane which will then take you over the M1 motorway.
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Take the first right into Kennel Lane, which will now take you in a Southerly direction.
At the end of Kennel Lane, turn right at the ‘T’ junction and go back under the M1 motorway.
Once under the motorway the lane becomes a track, which in a short distance splits into two directions, take the left track keeping the motorway to your left.
The pathway will turn away from the motorway (do not take the left turn which would take you back under the motorway) and bring you out on to New Road.
Turn right and follow the road around a left hand bend, keeping an eye out for the ‘Gate House Tea Rooms’ sign.
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Now proceed until the ‘T’ junction at Church Road, the B600.
Turn right and return back to Colliers Wood which will be on your left hand side as you arrive.
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