The Source to Sea Trail connects bridleways, drovers lanes, coffin roads, canal towpaths, reclaimed railway lines, forest tracks, moorland singletrack and quiet B roads along the upper reaches of ten of Yorkshire’s finest rivers: Esk, Derwent, Swale, Ure, Nidd, Wharfe, Skirfare, Aire, Ouse and the Calder. The circular route is 720kms with 9,200 meters of elevation.
We’ve called this the Source to Sea Trail as it takes you from the Pennine moors where many of our rivers begin and many miles later onto the Yorkshire coast, across the Vale of York and then over the Humber Estuary where the rivers flow into the body of the North Sea. And back to the starting line in Hebden Bridge.
This is a unique and inspiring bikepacking adventure as no other trail into the world traces the flow of rivers in one region across such a wide and varied landscape across three National Parks - the Dales, Peak District and North York Moors.
It is a self-supported ride with an Event Hub in the Calder Valley.
- 03 May 2025 7:30am
- Tickets On Sale
- Source to Sea TrailSource to Sea TrailMytholmroyd Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK
- Up to 720 km (447 miles)
- From 95.00 GBP
- 50 Riders
Extra Information
To get you around the route a ‘field tested’ gpx file will be sent to your email address 2 weeks prior to the event. This will be split into two files. An ‘outward’ journey from Mytholmroyd in the Calder Valley to Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast. A ‘return’ journey from Scarborough to York onto the Humber Bridge to then cross the Southern Washlands and climb over the edge of the Peak District and so return to Mytholmroyd.
All riders will gather and register at Mytholmroyd Community Center on Saturday 3rd May from 6am. There will be refreshments (tea, coffee, juice), fresh fruit and home made flapjacks. There will be a mass start at 7am heading along Caldene Avenue, through the park in Hebden Bridge and onto the bridleway up Colden Clough.
The clough is a steep sided wooded valley clad in ancient oak with a fast-flowing stream whose powerful waters have been ‘captured’ using weirs and channels that powered 12 textile mills in the early days of the industrial revolution. It is a excellent way to start our adventure.
The Community Center has toilets, hot showers, a bag drop area, a kitchen to supply your pie n peas and a large car park. On this early May weekend we will be sharing the Community Center with our sister event the Headwaters Trail (325km) so they’ll be a lot of riders.
50% of funds raised by the the event will be donated to Forus Tree, a worker's co-operative who have a tree nursery above Mytholmroyd with 50,000 young trees. Their target for tree planting in the Upper Calder Valley and beyond is 100,000 trees in winter/spring 2024. It costs approximately £15 to provide a single tree with a long term secure home.
Forus Tree have over 20 years of tree planting experience and their aim is to reduce the effects of climate change and restore biodiversity. During their Friday volunteer sessions they share skills and knowledge, bring people together to enjoy Yorkshire's great countryside and contribute towards a more sustainable future.
