Previous Tuesday Rides

23rd May JIm T: 18 mile and 850ft.  Amberswood, Hall Lane, Golf Course, Haigh, Pendlebury Lane, Red Rock, Fairhurst Lane, Standish, Elnup Woods, Crooke Pads, track to Martland, DW and back to base.

16th May Jim T: 21 mile and 900ft. Cherry Gardens, Leyland Mill Lane, Pendlebury Lane, Red Rock, canal to Adlington, Babylon Lane, Long Lane to Limbrick and Cowling. Canal again to Aberdeen, Blundell Lane and Little Scotland, Toddington Lane into Haigh, bridleway down past St David’s church, before re-joining the canal back to Trencherfield.

9th May Paul B: 20 mile and 900ft. Parsons Meadow, Leopold, Hall Lane, Water Park, Up and over the lump, Carr Mill, Garswood, Three Sisters and back to Trencherfield via the Backbone, Hawkley Woods and the canal towpath.

2nd May Paul B: 20 mile and approx 1000ft. Parsons Meadow, Alexandra Park, Banana Bridge, Tontine, Pimbo, Crawford, Rainford Linear Park, Billinge, Over the Lump, Windy Harbour and back to Wigan.

25th Apr Jim T: 19 miles and 600ft. Amberswood, Hindley. Westhoughton, Lostock, Middlebrook Way, Lostock again, A6, Hall Lane, Hindley Golf Club, Top Lock and back to base along the canal towpath.

18th April Jim T: 17 miles and 500ft. Miry Lane, Woodhouse Lane, towpath to Crooke, over the pads to Shevington through Elnup Woods to Standish Wood Lane, Lurdin Lane, Red Rock, Arley Lane to Little Scotland, Haigh, Hall Lane, Withington Lane and Canal towpath back to base.

11th Apr Jim T: 21 miles and 930ft. A49 to Standish, Old Pepper Lane, Tunley Lane, stoney Lane into Parbold. Higher Lane towards Dalton then Lees Lane through Appley Bridge, Shevington, Crooke, Martland Mill and back along Stadium Way via Wallgate to Trencherfield Mill. 

4th Apr Jim T: 18 miles and 362 ft. Amberswood, Low Hall, Kingsdown Flash, Morris Dancers Ground Crankwood Road to Plank Lane Marina, Pennington Flash, back to the Marina and Canal back to Trencherfield. 

28th Mar Jim T: 19 miles and 825 feet. Amberswood, Whelley Loop into Hindley. Platt Lane to get into Ladies Lane and through to Bolton Road. Balcarres Arms next follwed by Copperas Lane and School Lane towards Red Rock. Pendlebury Lane and the quiet track leading to Red Rock Lane and Chorley Road. Platt Lane, Bradley Lane and up to Preston Road (A49). Mineral Line to Old Pepper Lane.  Almond Brooke Road and Arbour Lane through Shevington to the canal bridge at Gathurst.  Canal towpath to Crooke up to Challenge Way, Stadium Way, Firth Street and cyycleway back to Trencherfield Mill.

21^st Mar Jim T: 20 miles 479 feet. Wallgate, Stadium Way, Challenge Way and up to Orrell Post.  Alma Hill, Tower Hill, Crawford village, Reed Brow, Rainford, Crank, Gores Lane, Rainford Road, Roby Well Way, Elm Drive, Billinge,  Wigan Road, Highfield, Pemberton, Saddle Junction, Wallgate back to Trencherfield Mill.

14^th Mar Jim T: 20 miles 823ft. Wallgate, Miry Lane, Prescott Street, Gidlow Lane/Kendall Street, Hodges Street, Spencer Road West.  Re-join Gidlow Lane, left into Rose Avenue, Acacia Crescent, Standish Wood Lane.  Climb into Standish, right onto the bridleway over the A49, Water Drive. Chorley Road, Red Rock Lane, Arley Lane climb up to Little Scotland.  Back towards Haigh and Aspull.  Wood Road, Hall Lane, Dicconson Lane, Dobb Lane. Back through Hindley Green, Glossop Way, Amberswood, back to Trencherfield.

7th Mar (Ride cancelled due to weather)

28^th Feb – Jim T: 21 miles 1,003ft. Standishgate, Wigan Lane.  Haigh WP, Aspull, Scot Lane into Blackrod, Station Road, Crown Lane into Horwich. Lever Park Avenue, Liverpool Castle, Lower Rivington Reservoir.  Horrobin Lane, Upper Rivington Reservoir, Yarrow Reservoir.  Knowsley Lane, Nickleton Brow, Babylon Lane and Railway Road, Adlington,  Park Road and The Common, Stoney Lane, River Douglas ford, Red Rock, Wigan Road. Back to Trencherfield via Wigan Lane, Spencer Road, Gidlow Lane, Prescott Street and Miry Lane.

21st Feb – Jim T: 21 miles and 833ft. A49 through Standish and into Coppull Moor Lane, Green Lane and Coppull Hall Lane leading to Yarrow Valley Country Park, and Birkacre Road, before the climb up Dob Brow into Church Lane, left onto the A49, Mill Lane over the M6 motorway bridge and along into Chisnall Lane until we reach Heskin. Mossy Lea Road, Pepper Lane and Arbour Lane into Shevington, through Crooke, Martland Mill onto Scot Lane for the last leg past the DW Stadium and back to Trencherfield Mill car park.

14^th Feb – Jim T: 21 miles 1,173 ft Gain. Haigh Woodland Park, Blackrod, Horwich.  Lever Park Avenue, Roynton Road, Rivington Hall Barn. Hall Lane, Sheephouse Lane, Horrobin Lane, Upper Rivington Reservoir. Nickleton Brow, Babylon Lane, Railway Road into Adlington. Cycle track (disused railway line), Red Rock ,Boars Head, Wigan Lane, Mesnes Road, back to Trencherfield.

7^th Feb – Jim T : 21 miles 851ft. Wigan town centre, Mesnes Park, Haigh Woodland Park Aspull.  Scot Lane to Blackrod, Crown Lane and Vale Avenue into Horwich centre. Victoria Road cross Chorley New Road into Middlebrook Retail Park area and via Academy Way onto the cycle path alongside Regent Park Municipal Golf course.  Lostock Station onto Tempest Road through Chew Moor, Westhoughton, Wearish Lane, down to Hindley Green. Atherton Road into Glossop Way, across Park Road into Blackberry Drive and onto Amberswood LNR to Trencherfield.

31st January – Jim T: 17 mile and 700ft. Amberswood, Borsdane Woods, up to the Balcarres, Toddington Lane, decent to Red Rock and up to Boars Head. Wigan Cemetery, Standish Wood Lane and Giants Hall, Maryland Mill and past the DW back to Trencherfield.

24th January – Jim T: 17 miles and around 600ft. Parsons Meadows, through Worsley Mesnes, Wigan Flashes, ‘Devils Backbone’ to Three Sisters, across to Viridor Woods, along the of the railway to Bamfurlong and through Platt Bridge Estate to Amberswood. Whelley Loop Line to Kirklees, canal towpath through Haigh Woodland Park Hall Lane to the A49 and on towards to Wigan Cemetery, and back to Trencherfield via Gidlow Lane.

17th January – Cancelled due to Weather conditions.

10th January – Cancelled due to Weather conditions.

3rd January Jim T: Just over 20 miles and 950 ft. A49 to Standish and along Green Lane to connect with the Standish Mineral Line.  From here it is Pepper Lane, Tunley Lane and Robin Hood Lane to take us over Parbold Hill.  Lees Lane into Appley Bridge, on towards Shevington and down through Crooke village to Martland Mill.  Scot Lane, Stadium Way and Wallgate back to Trencherfield Mill.

27th December – Cancelled

20th December Jim T: 18.50 miles ascent of 700 feet.  Trencherfield to Mesnes Park, Walkden Ave and Dawson Ave leads to Rose Ave and Acacia Crescent. Standish Wood Lane climbing into Standish. School Lane, the Standish Mineral Line Cycleway, Pepper Lane and Wigan Road (A49) turning in Coppull Moor Lane.  Green Lane, Coppull Hall Lane takes onto Chorley Road for a short stretch turn right onto the bridleway to take us to Rawlinson Lane and Westhoughton Road (A6) towards the centre of Adlington. Park Road head along to The Common over the ford to crossing River Douglas Climb to join the canal towpath, leaving towpath at Red Rock, turning left over the canal bridge turn right onto the Bridleway/Footpath towards Pendlebury Lane.  Turn right at Pendlebury Lane following the junction with Wigan Lane (A49), turn right then left at the Cherry Gardens roundabout for the final run into Trencherfield via, Kenyon Road, Menes Road, Frog Lane, Prescott Street and Miry Lane.

13th December – Cancelled due to Weather conditions

6th December Phil B: Off road, ride with no significant climbs. Westwood estate and on to Amberswood.  through to Millers Lane estate.  Platt Bridge and Abram, entering Kingsdown Flash.  Park Lane onto Crankwood.  Fir Tree Flash, emerging on Bickershaw Lane, trails leading to Hindley and Low Hall at Platt Bridge.  Return to Amberswood joining the canal towpath on return to the Brick café.

29th November Jim T: 19 miles and approx 700ft.  Wallgate cycle track, Firth Street, Challenge Way, Orrell Post, Moor Road, through Longshaw and into Billinge. Newton Road to Garswood, onwards through Bryn to Bolton, Bamfurlong, Platt Bridge, Amberswood, Whelley Loop and canal towpath back to Trencherfield Mill.  

22nd November Allan F: 20 miles. Cherry Gardens, Standish, Mineral Line, A49, Chisnall Hall nature reserve, Mossey Lee Lane. Back via Church Lane,Toogood Lane, Robin Hood Lane, Appley Bridge, Shevington, Crook Pads, Martland  Mill and back to base.

15th November: Ride cancelled due to weather conditions

8th November Paul B: 23 miles with around 900ft of climbing. Parsons Meadow, through Pemberton, Banana Bridge into Orrell, over the fields from Tontine to Pimbo and through Crawford to pick up the Rainford Linear Trail. Crank Road, Billinge, Simms Lane End, Drummers Lane, Landgate Lane, Devils Backbone, Hawkley Woods, Canal towpath to Pool Street and back to Trencherfield.

1st November Jim T: 21-mile and 740ft of ascent. Amberswood through to Hindley Green and Wearish Lane to get to Westhoughton. Southfield Drive, Mill Street and Bolton Road to Chew Moor Lane. St John’s Road and Tempest Road skirting Rumworth Lodge Reservoir along Junction Road West crossing Beaumont Road into Beaumont Drive. From here we join Junction Road and onto a bridleway taking us to the Middlebrook Trail. Alongside the brook until Lostock Railway station. Through Regent Park Golf Course to Academy Way, then Lostock Lane to the A6, Cooper Turning, Dicconson Lane then Withington Lane and the towpath back to base.

25th October Jim T: 18 miles and 800 feet of ascent. A49 through Standish until Coppull Moor Road, Green Lane and Jolly Tar Lane. Chorley Road, Rawlinson Lane and along the A6 for a short run into Adlington over the Common before crossing the River Douglas ford at the bottom of Storey Lane. Little Scotland into Haigh for a run through the Woodland Park. Climb up to the River Douglas Flood Defence Dam, around the rear of the Tesco Superstore into Standishgate, Wrightington Street and Mesnes Park Terrace to make our way to Prescott St and Miry Lane back toTrencherfield.

18th October Jim T: Just over 18 miles and a meagre 363 feet of ascent. Amberswood and Low Hall Local Nature Reserves into Bickershaw.  From here the Morris Dancing Ground on Park Lane before Crankwood Lane to Pennington Waterside Marina to join Slag Lane. Byrom Hall Woods through Golborne, Edge Green Lane and Riding Lane, into Three Sisters Local Nature Reserve, Scotsman’s Flash and back to Trencherfield.

11th October Tony G:  20 miles and approx 1000ft of ascent over a mix of road, towpath and trails. Canal to Martland Mill across Crooke pads to Gathurst Lane, Miles Lane to Appley Bridge and Lees Lane to Dalton. Parbold Village, The Common. Stoney Lane, Tunley Lane, Mossy Lea Road, Old Pepper Lane to the Standish Bike path. Green Lane to join Wigan Road down to the Cherry Gardens. Then the regular route home via Spencer Road, Frog Lane, Prescott St etc.

4th October Phil B : 22 miles 600 feet of ascent. Out towards Westwood Way cycleway through to Goose Green onto the cycleway to Clapgate Lane.  Winstanley estate to Beech Walk, following road into Pine View before joining a final section of path up to Windy Arbour.   Following Winstanley Road down via Leyland Green Road and into North Ashton.  Cutting through Brocstedes to Landgate and then into Landgate Lane.  Entering the Three Sisters Nature Reserve and circle the reserve. Cutting through Skitters Wood to emerge on Woodedge making the way to Ashton Heath.  Joining a path down the side of Haydock Park Racecourse taking us into Golborne.  Heading back towards Stubshaw Cross and take to the tracks around Viridor and alongside the railway into Bamfurlong.  Through the Millers Lane Estate and onto Amberswood returning  to our start point via Westwood.

27th September Jim T: 21 miles and approx 1150 ft of climbing. From Trencherfield out towards the Cherry Gardens, through Haigh Woodland Park to Aspull and into Blackrod, Station Road and Crown Crown Lane into Rivington. Royton Road leading to Rivington Hall Barn, Sheep House Lane and over to Alance Bridge skirting along Yarrow reservoir before dropping down the side of the overspill. Nick Hiltons Lane and Babylon Lane down into Adlington joining the canal to Arley, through the Golf Course to Red Rock, Chorley Road, Boars Head, Gidlow Cemetery, Gidlow Lane, Prescott Street and back to Trencherfield.

20th September Jim T: 22-mile journey out to Tyldesley on roads and trails with only 300ft of climbing. From Trencherfield we travel through Lower Ince into Amberswood through Low Hall into Hindley Green via Glossop Way and into West Leigh, cycle trail to Howe Bridge Crematorium, Jubilee Park and using Old Hall Mill Lane to Lilford Park. Guided Busway to Astley Street onto Manchester Road and Surrey Ave to join the Canal for the return to Trencherfield.

13th September Jim T: 24 miles Road ride with 795 feet ascent. Out towards Standish, through Wrightington and Heskin before returning via Anderton’s Mill, Parbold, Lees Lane. Appley Bridge and Shevington.

6^th September Peter H. 22 miles with 500 ft of ascent. From Trencherfield along the canal to Bamfurlong into Viridor Wood continued to Riding Lane, Edge Green Lane into the center of Golborne then to Tanners Lane, Windsor Road to Scott Road, Pennington Flash. Returned via Fir Tree Flash, West Leigh, Hindley Green and Hindley to pick up the Whelly Loop Line and back to the Brick. Suitable for Hybrid, MTB or e bike.