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Why not ……take a
day or two off from the C2C in Greystoke !
The village and surrounds has such a
lot to offer - build a day or two into your ride and make your C2C
trip even more memorable .....
  Quirky
Workshops & Creative Days here at the Cycle Café
(see our full programme and join our
mail-list for updates )
Mostly one day, sometimes evening
workshops in willow weaving, watercolours, art, cookery, country
crafts, water divining and more.
If the date’s not right contact us and
we may be able to organise a workshop or date just for you if you
are a group .
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Greystoke
Open Air Swimming Pool
- heated
and with lifeguard 83637
A real
Village Shop
c/w post office
The Boot
and Shoe Pub
with a reputation for fine food Tel: 017684 83343
A
village playing field and childrens’ play area
A village
hall available for hire Tel: 017684 83457
A Castle
- Greystoke Castle - Legendary home of Tarzan !
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St. Andrews
….A beautiful church There has been a Church as
Greystoke since 1255. The Church at that time was
richly endowed. The nobility took a personal
interest in their Parish Church, and the 14th Baron
Greystoke, who built the first Greystoke Castle has
a grave in the chancel.
For further details please see Church Service Times ..Greystoke
Apparently hiding up in the roof of the church are a
number of ‘green men ‘ …. (These are not gargoyles
but often smiling happy faces and heads surrounded
by foliage, branches or fruit, acknowledging the
ancient fusion between man and the natural world and
representing a pagan fertility figure. These green
men were secretly incorporated into many of the
newly built Christian Churches when they were
constructed on what were originally pagan sites – by
the woodcarvers and stonemasons of the time, who
perhaps wished to include them for posterity. ) |
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A Racing Stables
…owned by Nicky Richards - (son of Gordon
Richards) and boasting over 120 horses in training.
Greystoke wouldn’t be the same without the constant
stream of beautiful thoroughbreds filing around the
quiet lanes in a variety of circuitous routes up the
gallops at the Castle. Many famous racehorses hail from
these stables and can be seen on the roads from the
early morning through to early afternoon. The front lawn
at the Cycle Café is a great place to watch them pass
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Penrith Market Town
4-5 miles away (with bus links to there and Keswick)
The Lake
District, Ullswater, Keswick and beyond
….all on the doorstep ….but here remains the tranquillity of the
quintessential English village.
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And some great mountain biking around Ullswater, Skiddaw ,
Blencathra and towards Caldbeck Fells
…and
opening summer 2008 a new Single Track mountain bike trail at
Whinlatter, Keswick…
……………………………….which just might be worth
staying that extra day for.
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The 19
kilometre bike trail is part of a £500,000 project to
improve the visitor facilities at the Forestry
Commission’s Whinlatter Forest over the coming year, and
will involve building 15 kilometres of new single track
trail for families and hardcore mountain bike
enthusiasts. The trail is being built by trail builders
Clixby’s. The construction work is expected to take up
to seven months to complete and the new bike trail will
be officially opened to the public at the end of the
summer 2008 . New features will include rocks, drops and
steps. There will also be lots of descents, jumps and
rollers all linked together by singletrack. |
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