Puddle Ducks Tea House – Puddle Ducks loop from Dunsop Bridge

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Puddle Ducks Tea House – Puddle Ducks loop from Dunsop Bridge

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Puddle Ducks Tea House – Puddle Ducks loop from Dunsop Bridge

00:51

7.93km

120m

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Moderate run. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 31, 2026

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Forest of Bowland National Landscape

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80 m

Puddleducks Tea Room at the Centre of the United Kingdom

Highlight • Cafe

Popular cyclists haunt with good food, outside and indoor seating, secure bike racks, drying room, water bottle refill tap. They don't take cards but you can get cash-back from the post office located in the right hand section of the café. Apparently the location of this café is at the very centre of the UK and is ideal for a pre/post Trough of Bowland break.
Open Thurs and Fri 10:00 - 16:00.
Sat and Sun 9:30 - 16:00.
Closed Mon, Tue and Wed.

Menu
puddleduckscafe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Puddleducks-Menu-2016.pdf

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Puddle Ducks Tea House

Highlight • Cafe

A popular cafe in the centre of the UK. Fresh home cooked food and cakes served daily from 10:00 - 16:00. Great place for a pre or post run coffee and a cake to recover, support the local community and enjoy the area before you leave.
Very close to the geographical centre of the UK.

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142 m

Puddle Ducks

Highlight • Cafe

Great stop for coffee and cake and very cycling friendly. The place to refuel when cycling the Trough of Bowland

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1.14 km

Victorian Iron Bridge over the River Hodder

Highlight • Monument

A Victorian iron bridge, built by the Blackburn Corporation in 1882. It carries a footpath over the River Hodder.

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4.80 km

Knowlmere Manor

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Knowlmere was a mesne manor of the Lords of Bowland originally subinfeudated to the Savile family but held by the Hammertons from 1382. From at least the mid-thirteenth century, some thirty acres, the core of the estate, had been tenanted by the De Knoll family from which the manor takes its name.

The Manor was used as a filming location in a Sherlock Holmes mystery ‘ Silver Blaze’ in the eighties.

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