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Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route and The Way of the Roses route. 165: Barnard Castle - Whitby. A branch of the W2W route (previously regional route 52) 166: Kirkham Abbey- Hunmanby. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route. 167: Kirkham Abbey - Huggate. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route. 168: link south-east of Middlesbrough
National Cycle Route 3 (or NCR 3) is a route of the United Kingdom National Cycle Network, running from Bristol to Land's End. Route.
National Cycle Route 1: Dover – Tain. Running the length of the east coast and passing through London and Edinburgh. National Cycle Route 2: Dover – St Austell in England, along the south coast. National Cycle Route 3: Bristol – Land's End, incorporating the West Country Way via Chew Valley Lake, and the Cornish Way
The National Cycle Network was the first project to receive Millennium Commission funding in 1995. Sustrans has many sources of funding, and in the 2004/05 financial year, its income was £23.6 million: £2.1 million from supporters' donations, £8.5 million from the Department for Transport and a further £2.5 million from the National Opportunities Fund specifically for the Safe Routes projects.
Sustrans founder John Grimshaw calls it 'the best National Cycle Network route of the lot'. [2] The majority of the route follows NCN 68. It also makes use of several other NCN routes including 6, 54, 62, [3] 70, [4] 7, 72 and 1. [5] It has a total length of about 327 miles (526 km). The route was opened in stages in 2002–03.
The route is well signposted with signs carrying the name of the route or marked with the red and white heraldic roses from which the name of the route is derived.. The route starts in the resort town of Morecambe, Lancashire loosely following the River Lune and the River Wenning into the Pennines at Settle and entering the Yorkshire Dales National Park. [8]
The National Cycle Network, created by the charity Sustrans, is the UK's major network of signed routes for cycling. It uses dedicated bike paths as well as roads with minimal traffic, and covers 14,000 miles (23,000 kilometres), passing within 1 mi (2 km) of half of all homes. [10]
Combe Down Tunnel in 2005. The Two Tunnels Greenway is a shared use path for walking and cycling in Bath, Somerset, England. [2] The route links National Cycle Route 24 south of Bath with National Cycle Route 4 in the town centre, [3] and is designated as National Cycle Route 244.