We enjoyed a nice warm late spring day for our new ride along the Transpennine Trail around Barnsley from Silkstone Common to the RSPB reserve at Old Moor. Many thanks to Wigfield Farm Cafe for allowing us to park in their car park and for providing very reasonably priced refreshments after the ride.
This ride is entirely off road, initially uphill towards Silkstone common to an interesting sculpture come stone seat where we turned around for a nice long gentle run down hill towards Worsborogh. The route traverses a number of crossings across mostly minor roads with a couple policed by cyclist friendly traffic light controlled pedestrian crossings. Much of the route has recently been completely restored and resurfaced and hence was wonderfully smooth. However this was in sharp contrast to the last short section towards the RSPB reserve at Old Moor which was peppered with tree roots making the surface somewhat bumpy but this didn’t detract from another great route to add to our portfolio.
