| White Rose Cycle Route |
April 2004
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Hull to Beverley From Paragon Station I made my way to the start of Route 66 at Queens Gardens. This is also the new home of the BBC in Hull. From Queens Gardens the signs are patchy and the route at times obscure. I know Hull quite well but this journey took me through areas I had never seen before. It's not pretty and at times the track weaves it's way through some of the city's most challenging housing areas. Leaving the city centre over Drypool Bridge and crossing Holderness Road I joined an off road track through a mainly green corridor to Sutton Road. The route splits after about a mile. 65 heads right for Hornsea. I took 66 towards the southern edge of the famous Bransholme Estate. There's a cycle track alongside Sutton Road right up to it's junction with Beverley Road. A series of off road cycle tracks link estate roads through Orchard Park and onto Cottingham. A few more signs would have been welcome here. I was thankful I had printed out the Hull Cycle Map on the City Council website. I referred to it several times before leaving the city boundary. The signs through Cottingham were better but watch out for Park Lane. There's no sign to tell you the route leaves the main road at this junction. This is where you leave urban life for a while. The first section of the link to Beverley is a service road to a power distribution station. The track then follows a farm lane. Like some other off road sections ahead it wasn't too comfortable on my 700x25s. |
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