List of National Cycle Network routes explained

This is a list of routes on Sustrans's National Cycle Network within the United Kingdom.As the cycle network has not been fully completed, some sections of routes are still under construction.

Single Digit Main National Routes

Route	Major incomplete sections	Notes	Map
Dover – Shetland, along the east coast, via London, Edinburgh, John o' Groats and Orkney	Whitby - Staithes		Map
Dover – St Austell, along the south coast, when completed.	Dawlish – Totnes; Plymouth – St Austell		OSM
Bristol – Land's End		Incorporating the West Country Way and the Cornish Way, via St. Austell, Bude, Barnstaple, Taunton and Wells	OSM
Greenwich – Fishguard, in West Wales, via Reading, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Swansea, Carmarthen, Tenby, Haverfordwest and St. Davids			Map
Reading – Holyhead, via Birmingham, The Midlands and the North Wales coast	Walsall – Stafford; diversions at Colwyn Bay.		Map
Windsor – Lake District, via Milton Keynes, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Preston and Lancaster	Castleton – Reddish, Blackburn – Preston		OSM
Sunderland – Inverness via Carlisle and Glasgow		Eastern section of C2C. Incorporating the Clyde and Loch Lomond Cycleway	OSM
Cardiff – Holyhead, via Brecon, Builth Wells, Machynlleth, Porthmadog and Bangor, through the heart of Wales.		Also known as Lôn Las Cymru	OSM
Belfast – Dublin, when completed, via Lisburn, Craigavon, Portadown and Scarva	Slieve Gullion – Dublin		Map

Double Digit National Routes

Route	Major incomplete sections	Notes	Map
		Forms the majority of the Reivers Cycle Route	OSM
Harlow – Wiggenhall St Germans (south of King's Lynn), via Cambridge and Ely	Harlow – Stanstead Mountfitchet; Waterbeach – Wicken; link to Saffron Walden; Shadoxhurst (joins Route 18) to Lydd (joins Route 2)		OSM
Enfield – Spalding, via Potters Bar, Hatfield, Stevenage, St Neots, Peterborough	Enfield Lock – Hadley Wood; intermittent sections Stotfold – Sandy	Also known as the Great North Way	OSM
Tower Bridge – Barking – Grays – Chelmsford – Colchester – Bury St Edmunds – Thetford – Fakenham	Sections around Grays	Joins route 1 between Chelmsford and Colchester	OSM
Darlington – Stockton-on-Tees – Hartlepool – Durham – Consett – South Shields		Also known as the Three Rivers Cycle Route	OSM
(Nottingham – Grantham – Sleaford)		Connect route 6 in Belton, near Shepshed Leicestershire with route 1 in Lincolnshire near Coningsb	OSM
(Basildon – Shoeburyness)			OSM
Rochester – (spur to Maidstone) – Ashford (proposed) to Newchurch, Kent joining Route 2			OSM
Canterbury – Ashford – Tenterden – Tunbridge Wells			OSM
Wandsworth – Redhill – Crawley – Brighton		Joins route 21 between Redhill and Crawley	OSM
Greenwich – Lewisham – Crawley – East Grinstead – Heathfield – Eastbourne		Several sections are not suitable for road bikes.	OSM
Banstead – Dorking – Guildford – Farnham – Petersfield – Havant – Portsmouth – (by ferry to Isle of Wight) – Ryde – Yarmouth – (by ferry to New Forest) – Lymington – Brockenhurst		ferry connections are required from Portsmouth to Ryde, and again from Yarmouth to Lymington	OSM
Reading – Basingstoke – Winchester – Eastleigh – Southampton – Cowes – Sandown			OSM
Bath – Radstock – Frome – Longleat – Warminster – Salisbury – Romsey – Eastleigh		Also known as the Colliers Way	OSM
			OSM
Portishead – Clevedon – Cheddar – Wells – Glastonbury – Yeovil – Dorchester – Weymouth – Portland Bill	Portishead – Clevedon Cheddar – Glastonbury	Also known as The Strawberry Line	OSM
Ilfracombe – Barnstaple – Okehampton – Tavistock – Plymouth		Also known as the Devon Coast to Coast cycle route	OSM
Okehampton – Bovey Tracey – Newton Abbot – Totnes – Salcombe – Yealmpton – Plymouth	Okehampton – Bovey Tracey Newton Abbot – Tontes Yealmpton – Plymouth		OSM
		Part of the Cornish Way cycle route	OSM
Bristol – Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare – Bridgwater – Taunton – Ilminster – Chard – Axminster – Seaton	Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare	Also known as the Wessex Cycleway	OSM
Exeter St Davids – Exeter – Bridge Road		Joins route 2 at Bridge Road	Map
Bristol – Gloucester – Cheltenham – Tewkesbury – Evesham – Stratford-upon-Avon – Royal Leamington Spa – Rugby	Cheltenham – Tewkesbury Evesham – Stratford-upon-Avon		OSM
Gloucester – Cinderford – Parkend – Chepstow – Abergavenny – Hay-on-Wye – Glasbury	Gloucester – Cinderford Parkend – Chepstow		OSM
Swansea – Caehopkin – Llanwrtyd Wells – Builth Wells	Caehopkin – Llanwrtyd Wells		OSM
Shrewsbury – Bishop's Castle – Bromfield – Ludlow – Hereford – Cinderford	Ludlow – Cinderford		OSM
Chester – Shrewsbury – Kidderminster – Worcester – Gloucester – Swindon – Salisbury			OSM
Bromsgrove – Droitwich – Worcester – Hereford – Abergavenny – Merthyr Tydfil – Neath	Worcester – Hereford		OSM
Newport – Neath – Swansea – Llanelli – Carmarthen – Fishguard	Neath – Llanelli		OSM
Lincoln – Leicester – Cirencester – Bath – Exeter	Cirencester – Exeter		OSM
Abergavenny – Pontypool – Cwmbran – Newport			OSM
(Maidenhead – Winslow)			OSM
Colchester – Harwich – Ipswich- Felixstowe – Cambridge – Bedford – Milton Keynes – Oxford			OSM
(Stratford-upon-Avon – Loughborough)			OSM
(Peterborough – Lichfield)			OSM
(Stourport-on-Severn – Kidderminster – Dudley) – Lichfield – Derby			OSM
(Ironbridge – Preston)			OSM
			OSM
Northleach – Witney (-) Oxford – Thame – Princes Risborough – Chesham (–) Hemel Hempstead – Harpenden (– Welwyn Garden City)			OSM
Manchester – Prestwich	Cheetham Hill – Prestwich		OSM
Maidenhead – Uxbridge – Rickmansworth – Hatfield – Ware			OSM
Fleetwood – Blackpool – Preston – Southport – Liverpool – Warrington – Manchester – Doncaster – Selby	Hutton – Southport	The Trans Pennine Trail	OSM
Burton upon Trent – Leicester – Oakham (–) Peterborough – Wisbech			OSM
Market Harborough – Melton Mowbray (–) Collingham – Lincoln			OSM
Hornsea – Hull – Selby – York – Middlesbrough		Also known as the White Rose cycle route	OSM
Spurn Head – Hull – Beverley – York – Leeds – Bradford – Hebden Bridge – Rochdale – Manchester	Spurn – Hull; Tadcaster – Branham; Mirfield – Brighouse; Castleton – Failsworth		OSM
Long Eaton – Heanor – Chesterfield – Leeds –Northallerton		Includes the Nidderdale Greenway and Trans Pennine Trail	OSM
Derby – Buxton – New Mills - Holmfirth – Settle – Appleby – Haltwhistle – Berwick-upon-Tweed		The Pennine Cycleway running up the spine of England	OSM
Morecambe – Settle – Skipton – Cullingworth – Huddersfield – Horbury – Pontefract – Althorpe – Caistor – Grimsby	Other than the long section forming a part of the Way of the Roses, Route 69 comprises a number of discontinuous, short traffic free sections throughout Yorkshire	Is western end of the Way of the Roses	OSM
Barrow-in-Furness – Kendal – Kirkby Stephen – Barnard Castle – Durham – Sunderland		W2W, Walney 2 Wear	Map
Northallerton – Appleby – Penrith – Whitehaven and Workington		Western end of C2C	OSM
	Kendal – Ravenglass	Includes Hadrian's Cycleway	OSM
Newton Stewart – Stranraer and Lochranza – Kilmarnock			OSM
Gretna – Douglas (– Lesmahagow –) Larkhall – Hamilton – Uddingston			OSM
Portavadie – Dunoon – Gourock – Glasgow – Edinburgh – Leith			OSM
Berwick-upon-Tweed – Edinburgh – Stirling – Kirkcaldy - St Andrews	Kirkcaldy - St Andrews	The Round the Forth Route	OSM
Dundee – Pitlochry, via Perth			OSM
		Great Glens Cycle Route	OSM
Aberystwyth – Shrewsbury – Telford – Wolverhampton – Smethwick		Known as Lon Cambria	OSM
Bangor – Capel Curig - Porthmadog – Dolgellau – Machynlleth (–) Ystrad Meurig – Fishguard			OSM
Rhyl – St Asaph (- Llangollen – Oswestry)			OSM
Chester – Wrexham - Trevor – Llangollen (- Corwen – Bala – Dolgellau)			OSM
Caerleon – Newport – Cardiff(– Bridgend)			Map
Armagh Enniskillen		Almost entirely scrapped on safety grounds in 2020; just a couple of short sections at Armagh & Enniskillen remain.	Map
Derry		Most of this route was scrapped in 2020 on safety grounds - 21km remains at Derry and a short cross-border stretch between Lifford and Strabane	Map
Bangor & Belfast – Newtownabbey & Larne - Ballycastle - Coleraine - Limavady - Derry		Most of this coastal route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020; other than sections along Belfast Lough shore, only a few vestigial segments remain.	Map
Formerly a circuit of Lough Neagh; now just Antrim - Randalstown; Lagan Towpath near Aghagallon		Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, just 15km remains.	Map
		All of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020.	Map
Ballymoney Coleraine		Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, less than 8 km remain	Map
		Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, less than 2km remains, at the 'ECOS Centre' in Ballymena	Map
Belfast – Comber; Newcastle		Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, only remaining sections are the 'Comber Greenway' and a small section in Newcastle.	Map

Three Digit Regional Routes

Zone 1

(Cleethorpes – Beelsby, Lincolnshire) linking Cleethorpes to NCR 1 at Beelsby

(Sandy – Gamlingay – Cambridge)

(Eaton Socon – Cambridge)

Darent Valley (Dartford) – this follows the route of the long-distance path Darent Valley Path)

Ingrebourne Valley Connect2 scheme

Stifford Bridge and Purfleet, (following the route of the Mardyke Way (along the Mardyke (river))

Keelman's Way: Wylam – NCN 14 (along south bank of River Tyne)

Sleaford branch of NCN15

Morpeth

Pocklington - Hutton Cranswick and Kiplingcotes - Beverley. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route and The Way of the Roses route.

Barnard Castle - Whitby. A branch of the W2W route (previously regional route 52)

Kirkham Abbey- Hunmanby. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.

Kirkham Abbey - Huggate. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.

link south-east of Middlesbrough

Scunthorpe Ridgeway

Towpath of Royal Military Canal

Isle of Sheppey – 'Sheerness Way'

Maidstone – Ashford

Maidstone – Tonbridge

Around the Hoo Peninsula (also known as the Heron Trail)

Aberdeen – Aboyne

Pencaitland railway path (RR 73) east of Edinburgh

Zone 2

Devon: South Brent – Dartington

South London: Raynes Park – Morden

(Beddington Park, Sutton – South Norwood Country Park, Croydon)

Basingstoke Canal

Sussex Downs Link

Guildford – Chertsey

Farnham – Medstead

Isle of Wight

(Mitcham Common, Merton – Lloyd Park, Croydon)

Isle of Wight

Portsmouth – Lyndhurst

244: Two Tunnels Greenway, Bath
246

Totton – Romsey – Andover – Stockbridge – Kintbury

Honiton – Sidmouth

North Dorset Trailway

South Somerset Cycleway (RR41)

Wiltshire Cycleway

Wiltshire Cycleway links, Chippenham area

Ringwood – Wimborne Minster

Castle Cary – Keinton Mandeville

Bridport – Maiden Newton railway path

Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid

Devon: Ivybridge – Yelverton, also Ashburton and east

southern NCN3 braid near Holsworthy

Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid (Peter Tavy to Clearbrook)

North Devon coast (former RR)

Devon Coast-to-Coast Woolacombe braid

Zone 3

Bugle, Cornwall

NCN3 inland braid to Truro

Launceston to Tavistock

south from Bristol

north from Taunton

Bridgwater – Langport – Ilminster

Exeter – Crediton

NCN3 alternate braid to Bampton

Zone 4

North Wiltshire NCN4 braid

Avon Cycleway (Bristol Ring)

Evesham – Cheltenham NCN45 cut-off

Bristol – Yate

Cwmbran – Monmouth – Ross (former RR30 and Peregrine Path)

Rotherhithe – Camberwell

Skenfirth – Kentchurch

Dulais Valley, South Wales

South Wales to Glanaman

Milford Haven

Cotswold Line Cycle Route: Worcester – Evesham – Oxford

Carmarthen – Llandysul

Cardiganshire to Newcastle Emlyn

Crymych – Cardigan

Nantwich – Crewe – Sandbach

Oswestry – Ellesmere – Whitchurch (former RR31)

Slough / Eton Dorney

Pontypool – Hafodyrynys (- Crumlin); (Aberbeeg -) Cwm – Beaufort

Valleys

(Trethomas -) Pengam – Abertysswyg (-) Rhymney – Bute Town

Bargoed – (Fochriw – Rhymney)

Caerphilly – Senghenydd

Trelewis – Taff Bargoed

Edwardsville – Merthyr Tydfil

Abercynon – Llwydcoed

Salisbury Plain NCN45 braid

Chiseldon – Marlborough NCN45 braid

Fosse2 link to Daventry

Cwmbran – Brynmawr

Zone 5

Kenilworth – Balsall Common – Hampton-in-Arden

Nuneaton-Tamworth-Alrewas

North Warwickshire Cycleway (W) and Coventry link

North Warwickshire Cycleway (E)

Birmingham & Fazeley Canal

Sutton Coldfield Connect2 – Sutton Park to Castle Vale

Birmingham – Sutton Coldfield

Banbury – Towcester – Northampton – Thrapston

Northampton Norbital

Didcot – Wantage (former Regional Route 44)

south-east Peak District

Hartington – High Peak Trail

Etwall – Uttoxeter – Maniford Trail

Caldon Canal towpath

Newcastle-under-Lyme – Silverdale

Newport – Market Drayton (former RR75)

Lichfield – Hednesford link

Stoke – Kidsgrove via Trent & Mersey Canal towpath

South Manchester

Caldon Canal Leek Branch – the Roaches

Warrington – St Helens – Skelmerdale

Runcorn – Widnes – St Helens – Wigan – Southport

Anglesey north coast

Wirral – Hawarden Bridge – Chester (former Regional Route 89)

Congleton – Northwich (former Regional Route 73)

574: Sewell - Berkhamsted - Chesham
576

Rickmansworth – Chesham – Wendover

Witney – Carterton – Cricklade

former RR55 Redditch – Birmingham, and canal towpath to city centre

Zone 6

Preston Guild Wheel (circular route)

Sheffield – Penistone – Kirkburton

Worthington – Ashby – Moira

Harrogate – Knaresborough, also known as the Beryl Burton cycleway

Sherwood Forest – Southwell

Carlton-le-Moorland, Lincolnshire

Lincoln – Worksop

Bakewell – Sherwood Forest

Coxwold – Osmotherly. The High Level Option of the White Rose route.

Easingwold – Upsall. Thirsk area loop

York northern city route

Wetherby – Tadcaster – York

north Leeds

Derby – Ilkeston greenway

Bluebell Way: Thurcroft – Woodsetts, link to Doncaster and Worksop

north Leeds (Roundhay Park)

Monsall Trail

Winterburn – Linton-on-Ouse. Way of the Roses central section

Huddersfield – Meltham

Airedale Greenway: Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath Keighley – Shipley

Linesway Greenway: Castleford – Garforth

Huddersfield Narrow Canal east, and east from Dewsbury

Zone 7

Bay Cycle Way: Glasson Dock – Walney Island

Barnard Castle – Bishop Auckland (Walney 2 Wear alternative)

Great North Cycleway: Darlington – Newcastle – Blyth

West Kilbride – Largs – Gourock

Bowling – Clydebank – Kirkintilloch – Falkirk – Linlithgow – Edinburgh (Forth and Clyde Canal & Union Canal)

East Kilbride – Rutherglen – Glasgow – Kelvindale (- Bishopbriggs)

Clackmannan – Dunfermline

Stirling – Bridge of Allan

Star of Markinch – Glenrothes – Kirkcaldy

Alloa – Tillicoultry – Dollar

Tullibody – Alva (- Tillicoultry)

Milnathort – Perth – Lochearnhead

Newburgh – Auchtermuchty – Falkland

Newburgh – Newport-on-Tay

Hebridean Way: Vatersay – Barra – Eriskay – Uist – Berneray – Lewis and Harris

Zone 8

Liverpool – Ainsdale (former Regional Route 81) (out-of-zone number)

Valleys – Porth-Pontypridd (Rhondda Fach)

Llangurig NCN81 high level braid

Rhayader-Strata Florida southern braid

Llanwrtyd Wells – Strata Florida/NCN81

Aberaeron – Lampeter

Radnor Ring

Gellings Greenway: Kirkby – Knowsley (Liverpool)

Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Pontypridd – Maerdy)

Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Treorchy)

Valleys (Ogmore Valley)

Valleys (Garw Valley)

Bridgend – Maesteg – Afan Forest Park

Port Talbot – Pontrhydyfen – Afan Forest Park