Priory provides new bicycle challenge with volunteer help

The National Trust is opening a pump track at Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, in time for the Bike Week Festival at Nostell on Saturday, June 18 and Sunday, June 19.

The track is for BMX and mountain bike use, where riders can use the contours and bumps in the track to pump their way around without minimal pedalling.

The track is a joint project with the Prince’s Trust.

Young people who are not in education, employment or training from across the Wakefield district have been working on the track as part of their community challenge for two weeks.

They have removed vegetation, moved earth and sculpted the track in the grounds of the historic home that will be valuable resource for community groups to use.

Yesterday cyclists got the opportunity to use the track for the first time.

A number of people attended the official opening of the new track at Nostell yesterday. Wakefield District Cycle Forum, the organisers of the bike festival were at yesterday’s event, along with the young people from the Prince’s Trust and Sarah Rogers Community Access Officer from the National Trust.