CTC British Road Book Vol. 6

Introduces the Cyclists' Touring Club, founded in 1878 and under Royal Patronage from 1910, describing it as one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world and setting out its membership and subscription terms.

Provides the key to the abbreviations used throughout the route descriptions, such as those for road, bridge, church, castle, cathedral, and the various guidebooks referenced.

Describes the road south from Carlisle through Penrith and Shap and on toward Tarporley in Cheshire.

Runs east from Liverpool through Runcorn and Northwich and on toward Derby.

Leads from Liverpool through Roby, Warrington, and Knutsford toward Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Connects Stretton with Middlewich and continues to Talke in the Staffordshire potteries district.

Runs from Chorley through Walkden, Manchester, and Stockport, then by Hazel Grove and Buxton toward Derby.

Crosses from Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales westward to the Lancashire coast resort of Blackpool.

Runs from Langho Church through Blackburn and Bolton into Manchester.

Leads from Whalley through Accrington, Bury, and Manchester, then by Withington and Wilmslow toward Talke.

Runs from Hazel Grove through Macclesfield toward Rough Close in the Cheshire and Staffordshire borderland.

Connects Burnley with Rochdale and Oldham and continues to Gee Cross.

Runs west from Sheffield through Ashopton and Glossop across the Pennines toward Liverpool.

Leads from Whaley Bridge through Baslow in the Peak District toward Chesterfield.

Runs from Sheffield by Hathersage and Whaley Bridge on toward Crewe.

Crosses from Castleton through Buxton and Allgreave in the Peak toward Congleton in Cheshire.

Runs from Sheffield by Fox House, Grindleford, and Buxton toward Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Leads from Sheffield through Bakewell to the Newhaven Inn in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Runs from Chesterfield through Matlock and on toward Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

Leads from Penrith by Kirkby Stephen and Nateby across the Pennine country toward Ripon.

Runs from Ripon through Harrogate, Harewood, and Leeds and on toward Derby.

Leads from Bowness through Wigton and Caldbeck toward Liscow in Cumberland.

Runs from the Cumberland coast at Silloth through Aspatria and Keswick toward Kendal.

Leads from Kendal through Kirkby Lonsdale and Clapham eastward toward Wakefield.

Gathers a series of routes through the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, running between such places as Coniston, Skipton, Ilkley, Leeds, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Kendal, and Barrow-in-Furness.

Gathers routes across the northern borders and Cumberland coast, including roads between Newcastle and Carlisle and through Brampton, Alston, Appleby, Penrith, Cockermouth, Maryport, Silloth, and Whitehaven.

Gathers routes through the Lakes, Furness, and Lancashire, linking such places as Ambleside, Coniston, Wasdale, Penrith, Lancaster, Whalley, Skipton, Liverpool, and Ormskirk.

Gathers routes through Cheshire, the Peak District, and the Midlands, connecting such places as Burnley, Barnsley, Oldham, Blackburn, Wilmslow, Buxton, Macclesfield, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Chester, and Derby.

Covers four routes on the Isle of Man, running between Ramsey, Quarter Bridge, Port Erin, Snaefell, Douglas, Peel, St. John's, Kirk Michael, and Castletown.

Gives notes on the chief towns along the routes, such as Alston described as an old market town among the highest in England, with references to fuller guidebooks for further information.

An index, restricted mainly to places actually on the routes described but with nearby places of interest added, in which all numbers refer to routes and Isle of Man names are listed separately.