Why this ride
Open upland riding with long sight lines and varied gradients. It also links naturally to Peak District National Park.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Peak District White Peak Loop
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 65 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 10
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Access context
Check weather, local closures, speed enforcement and single-track etiquette. Specific flag: seasonal traffic.
Seasonal context
Apr-Oct
Scenic road chapters
Cat and Fiddle Road
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 16 km this is Cat and Fiddle Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 16 km
- Named road
- Cat and Fiddle Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Buxton
Buxton is England's highest market town, give or take a rival's claim, perched at about three hundred meters in the hills of the Peak District, and it has the cool, brisk air to prove it. The Romans knew the place for its warm spring, which rises from deep in the limestone at a constant temperature of about twenty-eight degrees, and named it Aquae Arnemetiae. In the eighteenth century the Duke of Devonshire turned it into a fashionable spa, building the great Crescent in the 1780s, a curved Georgian terrace modeled on Bath.
Read the complete Buxton write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Buxton sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Bakewell.
2. Bakewell
Planning note
Bakewell comes up 18 km in. Next is Matlock.
3. Matlock
Planning note
37 km in you reach Matlock. Next is Buxton.
4. Buxton
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Buxton write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Buxton, late in the day.
Recorded source links
More motorcycle rides nearby
- Leeds long day · Derwent Valley Mills · 378 km
- Cat and Fiddle Road · 20 km
- Snake Pass starting at Glossop · 42 km
- Snake Pass · 22 km