Eccleston & Ashurst Beacon loop from Manchester
Eccleston & Ashurst Beacon loop from Manchester
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Eccleston & Ashurst Beacon loop from Manchester
05:18
116km
900m
Road cycling
A stone's throw from Manchester lie the beautiful, often overlooked Pennines, where the payoff for the effort to get there is never up for question. The reward comes as soon as you get some vertical metres into your legs and the views open up. Those reservoirs in your line of…
Last updated: April 28, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 116 km for 75 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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28.3 km
Sheephouse Lane Climb
Highlight (Segment) • Climb
Tip by
46.9 km
Eccleston Village
Highlight • Settlement
Tip by
55.0 km
Tastebuds Café, Fettlers Wharf Marina
Highlight • Cafe
Tip by
70.4 km
Ashurst Beacon
Highlight • Monument
This beacon tower was built in 1798 by Sir William …
Tip by
116 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
60.8 km
27.9 km
23.5 km
2.42 km
925 m
547 m
Surfaces
109 km
4.95 km
2.02 km
264 m
158 m
< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (330 m)
Lowest point (0 m)
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Saturday 4 July
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Comments
September 3, 2018
A stone's throw from Manchester lie the beautiful, often overlooked Pennines, where the payoff for the effort to get there is never up for question. The reward comes as soon as you get some vertical metres into your legs and the views open up. Those reservoirs in your line of sight? They were built in
July 15, 2022
Two places on the route to be aware of for out-of-towners like me - very easy to miss/spend time searching for:
1/ After 45.1 miles you'll be asked to dismount and shortcut down Back Row to Parliament Street - the entrance comes at the bottom of an epic descent down Alma Hill (just before an ascent up
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