World's End
210km cycling event starting from Broken Cross, nr Macclesfield. Controls at Utkinton, Mold, World's End and The Plassey, plus 2 information controls. The route & gpx for download below are the final versions. Entry on-the-line OK phone first (01625614830). Hard copy for postal entries now in post. More...
Breakfast at start and hot food at the finish. A feed station will be deployed at the End-of-the-World – spectacular views!The ride rolls out on quiet and winding Cheshire lanes, past the Lovell Telescope to Goosetry, through Vale Royal Woods and an unexpected climb to Utkinton and the Rose Farm Café control. Then fast down hill to meet the Shropshire Union and take the canal side path (very good) into central Chester where you easily waterway-hop over to Deeside and out of town across the flat lands to Mold . Lunch at Tesco. Next South and up to your Eryrys ceiling @ 355m, and across the tops to Minera, where begins the wild and remote road that circumnavigates the three great mountains, Esclusham, Eglwyseg and Ruabon. A road to be taken slowly, not just for safety, but for savour. In its progress, it is the windy moors of Esclusham, the creigiau of Eglwyseg, Offa’s Dyke, the deep and wooded World’s End Gorge, and the Llangollen Panorama, all before it passes through Penycae and gravity spits you out back on to the flat lands facing England and the afternoon control at the Plassey. The route back across Cheshire needs no further controls and is a pleasant get-you-home compromise between traffic avoidance and directness - although it has some entertainment value towards the end.
- Distance:
- 210 km
- Date:
- Sunday 13th May 2012
- Time:
- 08:00
- Starting from:
- Broken Cross , nr Macclesfield
- Fee:
- £7.00 ( £7.75 when paying via PayPal.
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- Closing date:
- Entries now closed.
A This is an AAA-adjusted event - the AAA points assessment has been revised, relative to the Audax UK hardcopy Calendar.
This does NOT necessarily imply that the route has changed.
Change of AAA
- Sunrises:
- 05:13 BST
- Sunsets:
- 20:58 BST
- Weather:
- Metcheck
- Start:
- Shown on map below.
Start Map
- Facilities:
- F L P R T
- Parking free or reasonably priced, at start
- Toilets at the start
- Left luggage secure(ish) at the start
- Refreshments free or reasonably priced, at start and/or finish
- Food some free food and/or drink provided on the ride
- Organiser:
- John Perrin
- Body:
- Peak Audax
- Address:
- 20 Princes Way
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 8UB
- Phone:
- Speeds:
- 14.3-25 kph
- ROA:
- 2000
- AAA:
- 2
- Total Climb:
- 2450m [1930m for AAA]
- Event No:
- 12-426
- Category:
- BR
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- Website:
- www.highergrangefarm.fsnet.co.uk/PeakAudax/worlC.htm
- Routesheet:
- Download 426r.zip updated 06.05.12
- GPS:
- Download 426g.zip updated 28.03.11
- Route
- See outline map below.
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