West Lothian Circular Cycle

Road Cycling
Feb 04
2018

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27 miles (43 km)3.5 - 4 hours

Dust off your bikes and work off the festive excesses with this short winter cycle that will take us on a tour of some of West Lothian's delights!

Largely a rural county with its numerous shale bings as evidence of its former mining industry, West Lothian has three country parks, miles of minor roads, canal towpath and former railway lines. We'll combine some of the best of these to make this relatively easy cycle ride. Our circular route of approx 27 miles (43km) will start off on traffic-free routes (NCN route 75) that take us over the M8 through Livingston village and new town before continuing along the River Almond through Almondell and Calderwood Country Park to East Calder. From there, we'll head north along a railway path back under the M8 to Uphall before meandering north-west on minor roads to West Lothian's former county town of Linlithgow, where there are a number of cafes or bars where we can stop for lunch. We'll complete the route back to Bathgate with a ride along a short section of the Union canal before taking minor roads southwards through Beecraigs Country Park.

The ride will include a few short hill climbs and is generally suitable for road, hybrid or mountain bikes. If there is lying snow, the latter might be more suitable on the off-road sections! We should be finished the ride well before dark, but bring lights just in case.

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