Previous Tuesday Rides

30h Dec – Jim T: 18 mile 900ft ish. Boars Head, Red Rock, Little Scotland, Haigh, Aspull, Bordane Wood, Amberswood & back to Wigan

23rd Dec – Phil B: 22 mile and 940ft. Little Lane, Orrell, Upholland, Pimbo, Crawford, Rainford Linear Park, Crank Road, Billinge, Windy Arbour and back into Wigan.

16th Dec – Jim T: 19 mile and 700ft. River Douglas towpath into Bottling Wood, Whelley Loop, Hall Lane.  Wingates, School Lane, Haigh Hall, Aspull, Borsdane Wood, Amberswood, Platt Bridge, Lily Lane, Three Sisters, Landgate Lane, Backbone and towpath back to Trencherfield.

9th Dec – Ride cancelled

2nd Dec – Phil B: 23 mile and 1000ft. Canal towpath to Gathhurst, Shevington, Rigbye Arms, Hunters, Bispham Green, Mawdesley, Anderton Mill, Cardiac Hill, Wrightington, Standish Cycleway, Gidlow & back to Trencherfield. 

We leave Wigan on the Wallgate cycleway and enter the canal towpath at the Brick Stadium. We follow the towpath to Gathurst where we join the road into Shevington and then down to Appley Bridge. We then climb from Skull House Lane up to High Moor where we’ll take a break outside the Rigbye Arms. Next, we cycle down Hunters Hill and onto country lanes taking us through Bispham Green and into the farthest point of our ride at Mawdesley.  

On our return we cycle through Andertons Mill and up Barmskin Lane where we take our customary break at the motorcycle shop car park. We then cycle through Tunley Lane into Wrightington and follow Pepper Lane into Standish to join the Standish Mineral Line cycleway. This takes us across to Green Lane and the cycleway back to Wigan. We leave the cycleway at Gidlow Lane and descend into Wigan following Prescott Street and Miry Lane back to our start point. 

25th Nov – Pete H: 32 mile and 800ft. From Three Sisters, Viridor, Edge Green, across Haydock into Newton, Sankey Valley, Fiddler’s Ferry, Sutton Manor, The Dream, Bold, Haydock and back to Three Sisters

18th Nov – No ride

11th Nov – Phil B: 18 mile and 850ft. Whelley Loop, Kirkless Whelley Loop again, Hall Lane, Haigh Hall, Balcarres, Little Scotland, Arley Lane, Red Rock, Lurdin Lane, Standish, Elnup Woods, Shevington, Pads to Crooke village, through the woods to Martland Mill, Brick Stadium and Wallgate cycleway back to Trencherfield.

4th Nov – Phil B: 23 mile and 900ft. Westwood Way, Winstanley, Windy Arbour, Billinge, Crank, Rainford Bypass, Rainford Junction, Crawford, Pimbo, Upholland, Orrell Post, Kitt Green, Martland Mill and Wallgate cycleway back to Trencherfield.

28th Oct – Jules: Extended ride around Delamere area

21st Oct – Phil B: 22 mile and 700ft. Mesnes Park, Cherry Gardens, Hall Lane, Balcarrres, Borsdane Wood, Hindley, Hindley Green, Leyland Park, Bickershaw, Fir Tree Flash, Crankwood, canal towpath to Bamfurlong, Amberswood, Westwood estate and back to Trencherfield.

14th Oct – Tony G: 22 mile. Canal to Standish Lower Ground, Crooke Village, pads to Shevington, Miles Lane, Appley Bridge, past Golden Days Garden Centre and cross the main road to Mossy Lea Road, Church Lane, Anderton Mill, Parbold, Lees Lane, Appley Bridge, canal back to Crooke, through the woods and the Industrial Estate to Stadium Way and back to the start via Wallgate.

7th Oct – Jim T: 19 miles and 400ft. Lower Ince, Amberswood, Blackberry Drive, Hindley Green, Howe Bridge, Lilford Park, Guided Busway, canal towpath to Slag Lane, Crankwood, Dover Lock and canal towpath back to Trencherfield.

30th Sep Jim T: 23 miles and 120ft. Boars Head, Chorley Road, canal towpath into Adlington, Chorley Golf Course, Horwich, Crown Lane and Station Road to Little Scotland, Haigh, mineral line to the canal towpath back to Trencherfield.

23rd Sep – Phil B: 24 mile and 1000ft. Miry Lane, Springfield, Beech Hill, Pepper Lane, Hunger Hill, Tunley Lane, Rigbye Arms, Hunters Hill, Bispham Green, Hoscar, Newburgh, Lees Lane, Appley Bridge, Shevington, Gathurst, canal towpath and back to Trencherfield via the Stadium and Wallgate. 

16th Sep – Allan F: 21 mile and 1150ft. Mesnes Park, Cherry Gardens, Haigh Woodland Park, Aspull, Blackrod, Horwich, Rivington, Liverpool Castle, Babylon Lane, Adlington, River Douglas ford, Wigan Golf Club, Red Rock, Boars Head, Gidlow Cemetery, cycle path to Gidlow Lane, Prescott Street and back to Trencherfield

9th Sep – Jim T: 22 mile and 800ft. A49 through Standish & Charnock Richard before turning into Back Lane at Bolton Green. Eccleston, Bannister Green Lane, Barnskin Lane, Toogood Lane, Tunley Lane, Mossy Lea Road, Pepper Lane, Standish/Gidlow cycleway and back to Trencherfield via Prescott St and Miry Lane.

2nd Sep – Tony G: 22 mile. Stadium Way, Standish Lower Ground, Crooke Village, pads to Shevington, Miles lane to Appley Bridge, Lees Lane to Newburgh Post Office/cafe, Back Lane to Hoscar Moss Rd, Wanes Blades Rd, Grimshaw Green, Parbold, Wood Lane, Crooke, woods through to Martland Mill and back to Trencherfield via Stadium Way and Wallgate. 

26th Aug – Jim T: 23 mile and 1200ft. Wingates, Pendlebury Lane, Red Rock, Arley Lane, Little Scotland, Dark Lane, Rivington, Knowsley Lane, Yarrow Reservoir Spill-Way, Rivington village, Horwich, Middlebrook, Lostock, Finger Post, Top Lock, canal towpath back to Trencherfield.

19th Aug – Jim T: 23 mile 900ft. Amberswood, Borsdane Woods, Hall Lane, Balcarres, Toddington Lane, Little Scotland, Blundell Lane, Red Rock, Gidlow/Standish cycleway, Standish Wood Lane, Elnup Woods, Miles Lane, Appley Bridge, canal towpath back to Crooke village, Giants Hall, Beech Hill, Gidlow Lane and back to Trencherfield via Prescott Street and Miry Lane.

12th Aug – Jim T: 22 mile and 600ft. Wallgate, DW Stadium,Challenge Way, Orrell, Lodge Road, Billinge, Bryn, Golborne, Stone Cross, Slag Lane and canal towpath back to Trencherfield.

5th Aug – Jim T: 22 mile and 900ft. Amberswood, Hindley Green, towards Westhoughton, Chew Moor, Lostock, Regents Park Golf Course, Middlebrook, Chorley New Road, Horwich ‘Tanners Brow’, Little Scotland, Haigh Woodland Park, Mesnes Road, Frog Lane, Miry Lane and back to Trencherfield.

29th July – Tony G: 20 mile and 850 ft. Whelley Loop, Belle Green Lane, Hemfield Road, Hindley Station. Borsdane Wood, Aspull, Balcarres, Red Rock, Standish, Pepper Lane, Old Pepper Lane, Beech Walk, new cycleway down to Beech Hill, Gidlow Lane, Prescott St and back to Trencherfield.

22nd July – Phil B: 21 mile and 800 ft. Canal towpath, Hawkley Woods, Landgate, North Ashton, Billinge, through Crank to Rainford Linear Trail, Crawford, Pimbo, Hall Green, Tontine, Orrell, Pemberton, Saddle Junction, Wallgate and back to Trencherfield.

8th July – Jim T: 23 Mile and 700ft. Largely off road taking in Three Sisters, Amberswood, Borsdane Woods, Haigh, Boars Head, Gidlow Cycleway & back to Trencherfield.

1st Jul – John M: Cherry Gardens via Mesnes Park, Whitley Crescent, Gidlow Lane, new cycle path (Standish Wood Lane) to Standish, Mineral Line, Pepper Lane, Mossy Lea Road, Church, Smithy Brow, Parbold via Bispham and Hilldale, The Common, Higher Lane, Lees Lane, Appley Lane South, Mill Lane, Miles Lane and back to Trencherfield, via Crooke Pads and either Canal Tow Path or Stadium Way.