Hebden / Howarth / Colne / Heptonstall
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Just found a fantastic bunch of roads over the moors.
From Hebden Bridge head up the A6033 towards Howarth - Moorland road pretty smooth, some straights, some twisty bits, and fantastic scenery. Theres even an old laboratory on the top which for some reason scares the sh!t out of me - spooky.
From Haworth head towards Stanbury across country and keep going. Again smooth roads lots of twist bits and some yumps. You even get to drive across a dam wall on the way.
At the end you reach Colne. Turn left onto the main road for a mile or so then turn left again and you will head back across the moors. This road is fantastic. Stunning scenery, big gradients (up to 1:4) twists and yumps a plenty and pretty narrow. It's all 2nd and 3rd gear work. Watch out for horse riders as there is ariding school nearby and the incredibly nonchalent sheep, some blind crests, and grounding! Then head towards heptonstall.
It must have been a PH'er who built this road because thaere is no reason for it to be here!
From Hebden Bridge head up the A6033 towards Howarth - Moorland road pretty smooth, some straights, some twisty bits, and fantastic scenery. Theres even an old laboratory on the top which for some reason scares the sh!t out of me - spooky.
From Haworth head towards Stanbury across country and keep going. Again smooth roads lots of twist bits and some yumps. You even get to drive across a dam wall on the way.
At the end you reach Colne. Turn left onto the main road for a mile or so then turn left again and you will head back across the moors. This road is fantastic. Stunning scenery, big gradients (up to 1:4) twists and yumps a plenty and pretty narrow. It's all 2nd and 3rd gear work. Watch out for horse riders as there is ariding school nearby and the incredibly nonchalent sheep, some blind crests, and grounding! Then head towards heptonstall.
It must have been a PH'er who built this road because thaere is no reason for it to be here!
DRG said:
Just found a fantastic bunch of roads over the moors.
From Haworth head towards Stanbury across country and keep going. Again smooth roads lots of twist bits and some yumps. You even get to drive across a dam wall on the way.
At the end you reach Colne.
I once tried (in a 2.5 CDX auto Omega Hire car) to keep up with an old escort mk3 van (yellow) in the rainy misty dark of a november morning over that way.
There's nothing like local knowledge, so he disappeared into the murk
DRG said:
At the end you reach Colne. Turn left onto the main road for a mile or so then turn left again and you will head back across the moors. This road is fantastic. Stunning scenery, big gradients (up to 1:4) twists and yumps a plenty and pretty narrow. It's all 2nd and 3rd gear work. Watch out for horse riders as there is ariding school nearby and the incredibly nonchalent sheep, some blind crests, and grounding! Then head towards heptonstall.
It must have been a PH'er who built this road because thaere is no reason for it to be here!
That would be the Widdop road - mostly single track and populated by jaywalking sheep? The Pack Horse pub half way across is excellent.
Other good roads from Hebden are the Long Causeway (Hebden Bridge to Burnley via my house and Blackshaw Head) and the Turvin road (From Cragg Vale to the top of Blackstone edge then either right to Littleborough or left to Ripponden.
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