Wednesday, 11 June 2025

RogueRunners '25 - Day Nine

Time to head south, Our stay at the Ecclefechan Hotel had been fantastic, I heartily recommend it if you're touring south east Scotland & northern England, but one or two of us had jobs to get back to. Most of us were continuing with the route, one had already left to tour the rest of Scotland with his wife, one was going straight home, two were heading further north. The rest of us loaded our luggage & headed for our hotel.

To keep it simple we headed out of town on the A74 / M6 until just north of Carlisle, then we took to the A roads. There was an early fuel stop to make sure the sevens had enough to get across the moors, then after Raise 9where they should've been getting used the sight of us by now) we took B roads over the moors to the first refreshment stop at the lovely Brough Castle Ice Cream Parlour.

We did more moorland roads & passed the Tan Hill Inn - we could see it this year - then Masham, Pateley Bridge & the Toft Gate Farm Café


Next it was through the wonderfully named Blubberhouses & Otley, to another fuel stop at Pool-In-Wharfedale, we were heading mostly east, but run alongside the A1 for a while before arriving at Tadcaster & heading south on the A162, were passed the Drax power station, then got into the flat lands, so the roads got straighter, the A631 did its best, but we were almost finished by this stage, it was unfortunately straight 40mph roads with frequent villages at 30 or even 20 mph, if I was doing it again I would stick to the A1 for longer, but at Gainsborough there was a last fuel stop before we pulled into the hotel between Kexby & Willingham-By-Stow.


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