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Why not ……take a
day or two off from the C2C in Greystoke !
The village now has its own website .... this encompasses many of the facilites that make Greystoke so unique ....please see www.greystokevillage.co.uk
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.
…Fabulous quiet roads - both hilly and fairly flat (depending on your needs)
for quiet, scenic and challenging road rides and
some great mountain biking around Ullswater, Skiddaw ,
Blencathra and towards Caldbeck Fells
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Above Keswick at the Whinlatter Visitors Centre Forestry COmmisiion and Osprey watch Centre are new single track Endura Mountain Bike Trails for both families and MTB fans - inc red trails some 30 - 40 k in length
The new South and North Sections of the Altura Mountain BIke trails at Whinlatter Forest Park are now open and are just 17 miles west of Greystoke |
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and just for fun ....
Spontaneity ....
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference,
memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings.
Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly.
In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole.
It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.
Viola Spolin
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The greatest luxuries in life are Knowledge and Experience ...
...so said Jamie Oliver ........(Philosopher extraordinaire) Summer 07
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As a Cycle Cafe with limited parking available only to Cycle support vehicles and some workshop attendees we ask all others to kindly walk from the village car park , some 300 yards away . Sometimes people find this hard to understand , so we thought we'd post this poem ....
Ode to the Car Driver
As you sit and read this page
From the comfort of your car
And seek the closest parking space
 Remember, life is not a race –
and good things come from a slower pace
……………..to savour it is best by far
CONSIDER please for just a while
To stretch your legs ..its no great trial
It’s good to walk – (it’s good to talk )
And totals less than half a mile
‘ 300 YARDS back ? ’ you say
I’m feeling rather tired today
‘and doubt that I can manage THAT -
I’d really rather drive away ‘
and so you may ….we shall reply
& …..if you choose to wonder why …
It could be for the best
As parking in the roads
Upsets our 'Happy Village Quest' and ...
'Thinking of our Neighbours' Code !
But, if you were so brave to try
You ‘d reach us on a ‘healthier high’
And feel you really do deserve
the scones & cream we’ll wait to serve
The reason we’re a tranquil place
Is due to certain lack of pace
And car free views of rolling hills
With Castle, cats and endless space.
 So give yourself a lovely walk
to find a peaceful time to talk
and watch the world go quietly by
It’s good for you - so why not try !
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