john o'groats to lands end

Today was the day of this trip that I'd been dreading. We had to navigate our way through some of the biggest towns in the north wet using only the UK maps that I had, (each days page was removed from the map book and put inside a polly pocket to keep it dry) and trying to avoid the busy and scary duel carridgeways. Not long after a little town just outside Wigan called Orrell, I happened to notice a street name I really liked the sound of, please see the photos for an explanation. The going was really slow for the first half of the day as I was having to stop the bike and check the map every five minutes but we got there eventually. We stopped at a morrisons for a coffee the onto the A49 south all the way down to Whitchurch. The road here was flat and the traffic light so we made very quick progress through what is probably one of my favourite parts of the country, Cheshire and Shropshire.

Total mileage = 614