Around Glasgow : Octopus Publishing Group : 9780540082094 : 0540082090 : 18 May 2017 : Around Glasgow is one of 20 titles in the new Philip's Cycle Tours series. The series is directly derived from the highly successful Ordnance Survey Cycle Tours series, but has been updated and improved, with a new focus on the needs of cyclists and the cycling market in the 21st century. Each book in the series contains 20 routes, both on-road and off-road, taking you along low-traffic or traffic free roads, tracks and paths. The route takes you through some of the most beautiful countryside and prettiest villages in Britain, and past some of the finest and most interesting houses, churches, castles, gardens and monuments in the land. Around Glasgow takes cyclists through the great natural beauty of the western half of southern Scotland around Glasgow, with rides in the area from the Trossachs to the north to Stranraer in the south. The region provides fantastic hill riding, together with the pleasu