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Casual adventure riding - YORKSHIRE UK
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Now then....
Went for a nice mini adventure last week. Checked out some of the back roads around Yorkshire and got a couple of 'Green Lane' roads in too. Does anyone know of any other Green Lanes? These are published on the NP authority websites, but most 'Green Laners' on the net seem to be very secretive about the roads in other areas... I see this as counter productive, because on a couple of occasions 'Green Lane' roads have actually been closed due to lack of usage... These lanes are pretty easy going and you could easily take any bike across, including a gixxer if you really wanted. The tarmac routes shown on the GPS tracks are are also a lot of fun on the smaller bikes. There's a nice biker cafe at Hawes too. Anyway, I wanted to publish the route but can't upload the tracks here. The Garmin, GPX and Google Earth files are available here. Index of /~earmb Remember these are intended to be adventure routes and as such, please leave the gates as you found them, take it easy around animals and above all don't litter (there seems to be plenty of that in Yorkshire already). Send me your routes and I'll add them to the list. Cheers |
Sorry - have to load tracks/waypoints Monday. Struggling to get onto home page server at work.
Entrances to green lanes are at N54 13.149 W2 05.325 N54 16.815 W2 05.297 N54 16.228 W2 07.510 N54 15.802 W2 12.735 N54 18.072 W2 06.932 |
hey mate thanks for the coordinates. I have a list of lanes from the TRF here:
FP – Footpath BW – Bridleway BOAT – Byway Open to All Traffic ORPA – Other Road with Public Access UCR – UnClassified Road 047151 – 056151 FP- ORPA 062155 – 066153 ORPA 089184 – 100188 FP-BW 104190 - 098200 BW 176192 – 175198 BW 181181 – 192193 ? 228163 – 241173 ? 201135 – 202146 ORPA 202135 – 209130 UCR 230145 – 243131 BOAT 230145 – 238149 BOAT - ORPA 237126 – 258116 BW - FP 235108 – 250110 FP 231100 – 231092 BW 240100 – 232083 ? 270062 – 269056 BW 190056 – 185049 BW – UCR - FP 180055 – 176059 BOAT 150043 – 149055 ORPA 148059 – 158081 UCR? - Yellow – ORPA (??? 1st ref) 111075 – 094079 BW 103080 – 102098 BW 103098 – 110082 BW 085118 – 090121 BW 090121 – 089130 BW 060138 – 055139 Path 060140 - 059148 FP - UCR 103054 – 115053 ORPA 115053 - 130050 ORPA There OS grid reffs. Never been to a TRF meeting though, like you say mate its all a bit 'secret squirrel'. |
This is a reasonable site for finding alternative roads and tracks. Basically all you do is zoom in to a rough area and click the search button, it then shows all trails within 5k of where you are. I find it a usefull starting off point although I have no idea how up to date the site is kept.
Google Maps display for Trailwise |
trailwise
if you sign up to the TRF and pay membership, you get a logon password for a site called wayfinder. this sight was changed to being called trailwise. it seems you dont need a password any more!
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thats to do with how far you zoom. the old system was a lot better, still though a good place to find green lanes. hope you all know the green lane code lol?
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call me stupid....
Hi Tommy.
Thanks for the info... Call me stupid, but how do you read those co-ordinates and how do you get them into your gps? Cheers |
The two letter reference that designates the grid square is missing.
While I am here, the Google Earth kpl files on the server, do you know what version of Google Earth they were made with, tried opening them last night and the end result was largely nonsense, or at least if they are supposed to be UK based trails they were. |
Using this version.
Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916 (beta) It's possible that something went wrong... Try again.. Otherwise try opening the .gpx file in google earth that should work too.... File>open then change "files of type" field in open dialogue box About those other grid refs.... does that mean I can't use them as they stand? Cheers |
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the stupidity only I posess!
sorry guys, found the rest of the document and its for SE grid ref:
HUDDERSFIELD AREA MAP REFS FOR O/S SHEET 110 (SE) GREEN – OK YELLOW – Possible Rest – unless can be proved otherwise, then lost vehicular rights under NERC act FP – Footpath BW – Bridleway BOAT – Byway Open to All Traffic ORPA – Other Road with Public Access UCR – UnClassified Road 047151 – 056151 FP-ORPA 062155 – 066153 ORPA 089184 – 100188 FP-BW 104190 - 098200 BW 176192 – 175198 BW 181181 – 192193 ? 228163 – 241173 ? 201135 – 202146 ORPA 202135 – 209130 UCR 230145 – 243131 BOAT 230145 – 238149 BOAT - ORPA 237126 – 258116 BW - FP 235108 – 250110 FP 231100 – 231092 BW 240100 – 232083 ? 270062 – 269056 BW 190056 – 185049 BW – UCR - FP 180055 – 176059 BOAT 150043 – 149055 ORPA 148059 – 158081 UCR? - Yellow – ORPA (??? 1st ref) 111075 – 094079 BW 103080 – 102098 BW 103098 – 110082 BW 085118 – 090121 BW 090121 – 089130 BW 060138 – 055139 Path 060140 - 059148 FP - UCR 103054 – 115053 ORPA 115053 - 130050 ORPA |
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