FARNDALE, NORTH YORK MOORS
If you like a bit of prime moorland singletrack and enjoy your own company, the heather-covered North York Moors will be just be the ticket. The wide open spaces of this northern National Park occupy an upland area far enough away from any big cities to keep numbers down, and there are hundreds of miles of tracks and paths to go at.
This area has to be one of the few places in England where, on as gorgeous an August day as we woke to this morning, you can cover 30km on (mostly) bridleways and see only a couple of people over several hours. The vast moorland forms a big part of the National Park, eventually dropping into the Vale of York to the south and the Cleveland Plain to the west.
The National Park stretches all the
