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 Cycle Route UKCyclist Brian Gort's website is a collection of 50+ favourite cycle routes suggested by site visitors. The routes are described mile by mile and mapped. Suggest your own routes. |
| 2600km of forest routes Find your route in the forest. This page will allow you to search by name of the forest, nearest town, by country or county or by grade of route. The Forestry Commission now has a new marketing programme for getting more people into the great outdoors: Active Woods, and cycling plays an important part in forest recreation. |
| Cycle A-way This is the CTC guide to designated cycle routes. It was formerly a paper publication but is now kept up-to-date online only. To access the wealth of information in the county listings it's necessary to download PDFs of each county. Within the PDFs there's a list of all the known routes, plus info on where to get a descriptive leaflet (usually free); and where you can request or purchase a map and/or guide of the route. The data on each county listing is fantastically detailed, although this means it could take some time to wade through. |
| Canal towpath riding The Waterscape website is run by British Waterways, the organisation responsible for maintaining 2,000 miles of inland waterways. Canal towpaths are often ideal, linear cycle routes. |
| Scottish mountain bike trails These forest trails - such as the 7Stanes, the Laggan Wolftrax and the Witch's Trails - are now legendary in MTB circles and the Forestry Commission has brought their websites into on easily accessible place. |
| National Long Distance Trails Click on 'Cycling' in 'Activity' for info on the Peddars Way, the Pennine Bridleway, the Ridgeway and the South Downs Way. |
| You can count on Sustrans National Cycle Network route numbers |
| CTC cycle route info Advice and recommendations from the CTC. |
| C2C on the BBC This is a photo journal of a ride on the 'Sea to Sea' cycle route, from Whitehaven to Sunderland, featuring personalities you could meet on the way... |
| Reclaiming Rights of Way "Just because a route is not on the [definitive] map does not mean that it is not a right of way. Likewise, just because a way is recorded as a footpath does not mean that there is not be an unrecorded right of way for cycling on it." This CTC info on reclaiming 'lost' routes is highly involved but absorbing, especially for 'lost roads' buffs. |
| MTB routes in Scotland and NE England The 81 in-depth route descriptions on this site are from a guidebook. |
| C2C The C2C - from Whitehaven/Workington to Tynemouth/Sunderland - is one of the Uk's most popular, and challenging, long-distance bicycle routes. it's 140 miles: doesn't sound a lot but the route is no walk in the park. |
| Cheshire Cycleway route 70 guide Quiet lanes, towpaths, ex-railway tracks, beautiful scenery, hills, plain, coast, historic sites, tourist spots, Peak National Park. Map of route marked with cycle repair shops, cafes, campsites, gardens, places of note to visit. Distance chart. |
| Seven Stanes, Southern Scotland The Seven Stanes route-building project is creating mountain bike trails in Scottish forests. There are graded routes suitable for everything from family riders to experienced MTBers with a penchant for North Shore aerial rope bridges... |
| CTC's activities and events Info on CTC's events this year. |
 The National BywayEasy to look at map of the national byway routes |
