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(B) Hooton – Cilcain – Caerwys – Halkyn – Burton Marsh gate

10:00 Sunday April 27 2025

Current Participants: 12 space(s) available

    (B) grade ride.  51 miles 2,900 ft of climb. Some sections around 9 or 10%

    Ride leader Ewan Wilkinson

    Meet at Hooton Station at 9.45 am for a 10 am start

    From Hooton we skirt Capenhurst to join the Green Way and cross the Dee on the Hawarden bridge.  We climb up through Aston to Ewloe, Through Buckley to Soughton and drop down to cross the A541.  We climb up to Gwernaffield and on up to Pantymwyn, descending into a valley and up again to Cilcain.  `We then drop down into the valley to join the A541 for about a mile. We turn off to Nannerch with a short but steep climb shortly after the village.  We rejoin the A541 for under a mile then turn right to climb up 300 ft, at up to 9 % gradient to Caerwys for lunch in the “On the Corner Cafe” (31 miles).

    From Caerwys we have an undulating climb up on to Halkyn mountain going through Lixwm  and Rhes -y-cae  before dropping down to Halkyn and Northop and on down to the Chester Road near the power station at Connah’s Quay,  crossing the Dee on the Flint bridge and back across the marshes to the marsh gate at Burton.

    The route on Komoot is here

    Ewan Wilkinson:  ewan.wilkinson@gmail.com