Hesket Newmarket - Milnthorpe 52.63 miles. Good weather, lots of hills.
We found out from our B&B hosts, that Hesket Newmarket is the village of Eddie Stobart, who is still alive and still lives in the village with other family members. There is now also Stobart Rail and Stobart Air. They purchased Carlisle airport and recently Southend Airport. A very big business has come out of a very small village.
We left quite early and stopped for refreshments at the very well known Mill Inn at Mungrisdale. The countryside has been absolutely stunning. fast open spaces with the hills around, it was awesome. We then reached the A66, forked off for the B5322, cycled the westside of Thirlmere, then on to the dreaded A591 through Grassmere, Ambleside, Windermere and to get off this dangerous fast road we changed to the NCN route 6. That was a good decision as we were constantly on safe cycle paths or country roads right up till Milnthorpe were we are staying. We must be halfway by now. Good!



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