Route: leaving the Leicester Guest House, Southport, and taking a wide pavement cycle path beside the coast road and then a C-road to Hesketh Bank. Heading south through Tarleton to join a very busy A59 to Walmer Bridge, stopping at Tootsies Ice Cream & Coffee House for coffee. Then on a quieter road to Longton and then on well-constructed cycle paths to enter Preston via quiet streets and a park and over an historic footbridge near the New Continental, stopping for a pint after cycling up to the station and back through the park to pick up train tickets home. Then heading home on the train.
Conditions: sunny but cool.
Pub: the New Continental, Preston, for Marble Brewery Pint.
