Halifax to York, Mackintosh’s to Rowntree, toffee ride? Red traffic lights seemed optional in the centre of Halifax, counted six cars sailing through. Big climb from the start, 295 metres, with rain until after Haworth.

Climbing again over t’moor before descending cobbled Hainworth Lane into Keighley. On to Otley and some lunch then to Harrogate. Much flatter country through Wetherby to York.

Rode along the Solar System Greenway as far as Saturn: formerly railway, now a cycle path with planetary markers at distance scale of 575,872,239 to 1. Back into York, and a brief look at the plaque near Holy Trinity Church where Anne Lister and Ann Walker took communion together.