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National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 166 is a Sustrans regional route in the Yorkshire Wolds between Kirkham and Hunmanby. It is one of 5 NCN routes that make up the 146 mile Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.[1] Created in 2011[2] it is fully open and signed.
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The entire route is on road, along quiet country lanes. The western end is at Kirkham, where is joins the north western end of NCN 166. It passes by the town of Malton and then the villages of Settrington, Duggleby, Kirby Gindalythe, Sledmere, Weaverthorpe and Foxholes on its way to its eastern end at Hunmanby.[3] Here it meets NCN 1.
The Yorkshire Wolds is a rolling landscape, there are few flat sections in this route.
The steepest gradients are the climbs out of Malton and Settrington.
Related NCN Routes
Route 166 meets the following routes:
- 167 at Kirkham 54°04′58″N 0°52′23″W / 54.0829°N 0.873°W
- 1 at Hunmanby 54°10′55″N 0°19′32″W / 54.182°N 0.3255°W
NCN 166 is part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route with:
References
- ^ "Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route". Cycle the Yorkshire Wolds. Cooper Douglas Partnership. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ Wills, Dixie. "Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route: 146 miles of back roads and huge skies". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ Sustrans (2014). Yorkshire Wolds, York & the Humber Cycle Map 28 (1 ed.). Sustrans. p. 2. ISBN 1900623455.
External links
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Vavasharp (talk) 18:30, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Lincoln to Scarborough
Lincoln | Market Rasen | Humber Bridge | Hull | Beverley | Driffield | Bridlington | Scarborough
The route passes through the east of Lincoln before using cycle lanes and cycle paths along the A46. Once out of the city it makes use of country lanes to Market Rasen, then up into the Lincolnshire Wolds to Barton-upon-Humber. There is one section of bridal path near Humberside Airport. Crossing the Humber Bridge to Hessle the route meets Route 65 on the eastern Leg of the Trans Pennine Trail the route continues north through west Hull suburbs before reaching the town of Beverly. Using mainly country lanes via Driffield, the route reaches the North Sea coast at Bridlington. Between Bridlington and Scarborough Route 1 climbs over the Yorkshire Wolds.
The 57 miles of Route 1 between the junction of Route 164 in Beverly 53°50′26″N 0°25′44″W / 53.8406°N 0.429°W and the junction with Route 166 in Hunmanby are part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.
Between Hutton Cranswick 53°57′14″N 0°29′53″W / 53.9539°N 0.498°W and Bridlington 54°05′33″N 0°10′38″W / 54.0924°N 0.1772°W Route 1 is the eastern end of the Way of the Roses Challenge Ride.