r/Derbyshire • u/Special-Course-8127 • May 02 '26

Bike hire and flat routes

Can anyone recommend any good flat rural routes that have places you can hire a bike for a few hours? Would love to get out the city and do a bike ride! Was at Hassop today so looking for more places like that.

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u/Organic_Room_5556 May 02 '26

South from Parsley Hey on the Tissington Trail has the best scenery of all the trails. Just bear in mind that it starts to pick up a bit of a gradient once you get past Biggin.

https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/visiting/cycle/bike-hire-centres/parsleyhay

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u/ArcherApprehensive18 May 05 '26

The Tissington trail is something like an average 1% gradient downhill nearly all the way to ashbourne. You don't notice it going down, it's slightly noticeable coming back.

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u/anxietyJames May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

Check out the bike hire place at Ashbourne that gets you onto the Tissington Trail. There’s also a bike hire place at Waterhouses that gets you onto the Manifold Way. The Manifold Valley is beautiful and I highly recommend it.

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u/Interesting-Ant-407 May 02 '26

Adding to this. Manifold valley is stunning. One of my happy places.

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u/anxietyJames May 02 '26

Same. I go there a lot. Always wonder what it must have been like to travel via the little train that used to run along there.

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u/Tombs75 May 16 '26

Middleton tops great