Cycle Route: Lake District 100km

Owner: x3mwt
Region: Allerdale • Keswick • Borrowdale • Above Derwent • Wythop
Linked groups: Charity • Nature Parks • Racing-bike suitable • Action Medical Research
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Lake District 100km

Route of the 100km option.
Actual Distance: 56.01-miles
Metres Climbed: 1419m
Max Gradient: 26.06%
Average Gradient: 2%
Difficulty: 8 /10
Feed Stations x 2

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General difficulty level

General difficulty score: 80/100.

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Difficulty level in detail

Total ascent: 1425 m
Difficulty level (relative): 8/10

Max. slope (base 500m): 26.06 %
Difficulty level (relative): 9/10

Length: 89.8 km
Difficulty level (relative): 8/10

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Start/Finish (distance from start: 0 km/0 miles)

Start/Finish

Keswick

Fitz Park in Keswick is the start/finish venue for the Lake District 100

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Keswick (distance from start: 0.23 km/0.14 miles)

Keswick

Did you know that Keswick was the center of the pencil industry! During the 16th century, small scale mining took place in Keswick, and it was the source of the world's first graphite pencils. The pencil industry continued in the town until 2008, when the company moved to Workington on the Irish Sea coast.

Author: Dromos

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Borrowdale (distance from start: 14.22 km/8.83 miles)

Borrowdale

Near Borrowdale, a huge deposit of the rock graphite was found, probably around the 15th-16th century near the hamlet Seathwaite, belonging to the Borrowdale parish.

Graphite is a soft mineral derived from the Greek "graphein", meaining to "write". It has been used for writing c-snce centuries and you also might know it as a substance of the "lead" in your pencil.

The locals used it to mark sheep. But quickly it was picked up to be used for the pencil industry in nearby Keswick.

What's more peculiar that this is the only deposit of graphite ever found in this solid form.

Author: Dromos

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Fist climb of the day! (distance from start: 15.46 km/9.6 miles)

Fist climb of the day!

Borrowdale

Out of Stonethwaite the route starts climbing towards Honister Pass

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Honister Pass (distance from start: 22.74 km/14.13 miles)

Honister Pass

Buttermere

After a long descent the road kicks up again

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Buttermere Lake (distance from start: 23.1 km/14.35 miles)

Buttermere Lake

Buttermere

Buttermere, the lake, shares its valley setting with Crummock Water. They were once a single lake, but are now separated by a narrow strip of meadowland. After the last ice age, sediment deposited from Millbeck created the division. The lakes name may be from the Norse Buthar, a farm family of the 9th century who lived here.

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