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A Staffordshire potter, where should try the local delicacy, the Staffordshire Oakcakes. You can usually have them with a filling of your choice, be it mushrooms, bacon, tomato, or cheese at most cafes in the area.
This Perm can be ridden with the
e_Brevet app
. The start is in Uppermill, Saddleworth. If you drive here, it's handy for M62 junction 22 and there is free all-day parking at the car park by the leisure centre. If arriving by train, Greenfield Station has connections to Manchester and Leeds. TransPennine Trains allow a limited number of bikes on trains which they insist must be pre-booked, a policy strictly observed.
From Saddleworth, the Perm goes south through Stalybridge and Hyde, Prestbury and Broken Cross. You follow some of the Cheshire Cycleway on quiet lanes to reach the first control at Alsager.
Continue south through Audley, Silverdale and Keele. The ride goes over the M6 at Keele services, a place with which most of us might be familiar but only when travelling by different means.
You pass a couple of pumping stations at Hatton and Millmeece which were built to pump water from bore holes to supply the nearby Potteries area.
The ride returns at Eccleshall, via Loggerheads to Audlem, where you'll find the excellent Old Priesthouse Cafe. Although you are now in Cheshire, don't forget to try those Oat Cakes.
Return to Saddleworth vai Sandbach and Alderley Edge before retracing the outward trip through Hyde and Stalybridge.
If you like this ride, you may wish to try another of the Wigley Perms from Uppermill:
50km
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100km
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200km
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Elland 50
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Lymestone Cowboy 100
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Aintree 200
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Torrs 50
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Where's Whalley 100
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Goolish 200
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Other
Wigley Perms
are also
available with starts from
Dean Row
,
Poynton
and
Stalybridge
.
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See Dee 200
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Oat Cuisine 200
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Trough 200
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Wigley 200
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Wyldefyre 200
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Nephi Alti also offers several Perms from Uppermill including:
100km
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150km
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200km
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Up 'n' Down t'West Ridin' 114km
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Slaidburn 180km
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Bowland 208km
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Widdop 115km
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Bretton 110km
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Some Useful Cafe Suggestions:
64km:
Alsager,
Costa
96km:
Eccleshall,
Garden Centre, Star Cafe
100km:
Sugnall,
Walled Garden Cafe
121km:
Audlem,
Priest House cafe
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