Local advice needed...
I'm travelling up to Scotland in June, stopping with a friend who lives north of Birmingham on a Friday evening. I was thinking of wiggling up through the Peak District and on up over the moors on the Saturday, something like the following...
Ashbourne
A515 to Buxton
A6 to Chapel en le Frith/Glossop
A57 Glossop via snake Pass
A6024 to Holmfirth
A635/A670/A672 - Greenfield/Dobcross/Denshaw
on to Rippenden
A646 to Hebden Bridge
A6033 to Keithley
then Aysgarth - Scotch Corner - Barnard Castle - Alston - Dumfries
Basecamp reckons 290 miles, which is a distance in a day on A's and B's
It looks a right mare trying to avoid the worst of the built up areas, is it possible/doable on a saturday or would I be better off going M6 to clear the area and finding some roads across the Pennines on the way up?
Coming from the south west all looks like a right pain
Any locals tossers care to offer advice?
TIA
I'm travelling up to Scotland in June, stopping with a friend who lives north of Birmingham on a Friday evening. I was thinking of wiggling up through the Peak District and on up over the moors on the Saturday, something like the following...
Ashbourne
A515 to Buxton
A6 to Chapel en le Frith/Glossop
A57 Glossop via snake Pass
A6024 to Holmfirth
A635/A670/A672 - Greenfield/Dobcross/Denshaw
on to Rippenden
A646 to Hebden Bridge
A6033 to Keithley
then Aysgarth - Scotch Corner - Barnard Castle - Alston - Dumfries
Basecamp reckons 290 miles, which is a distance in a day on A's and B's
It looks a right mare trying to avoid the worst of the built up areas, is it possible/doable on a saturday or would I be better off going M6 to clear the area and finding some roads across the Pennines on the way up?
Coming from the south west all looks like a right pain
Any locals tossers care to offer advice?
TIA