This is where I went yesterday.... stunning views from
Panorama Walk.
This is about 120 miles to and from Liverpool...I managed to do 7 more through getting lost in various places...but you could do it from Chester and cut about 55 miles off it. About 80 miles of my route are flat Cheshire - not all lanes, there is the usual bit of the A56, but I guess most are familiar with that anyway.
The interesting bits start once you see the first araf on the road...go into Bangor is y coed and out to Johnstown....bit of climbing up the hill. You could stay high here, and continue directly on to the Panorama Walk, but I wanted to cycle about the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, so a quick Dave-type descent down (twisty little lanes where you pray there's no oncoming traffic
), cycle over the aqueduct
, and then back up the hill....
Panorama is fantastic, the views are worth every little ramp on that road. One word of warning, there is a ford on that road (one of the reasons I went
), so it might be a bit more difficult when there's a lot of water. Yesterday (after a dry week) it had only an inch of water and was no trouble at all. Once up the few steep ramps after the ford, you're on top of the hills for fantastically quiet riding...to the end of the world
There's a nice descent off the hill, very open and quiet.
You'll end up in Minera, from then on you're back on proper roads with traffic, but it's mainly quiet - this is the same course as Dave has described
here. After getting back to Queensferry, I went on the Chester Greenway, a bike path with great tarmac that takes you right across and back out to Mickle Trafford, where you go back on the A56. Obviously you could also catch a train from Chester, or ride over to Capenhurst/Birkenhead.
This is the edited route, not including my little detours....or the bit of footpath with gates my original MMR route had me do...
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/1102992338And just to temp you a bit, here are some pics:
