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Mansfield-Derby traffic-free (or mostly traffic-free?) cycle route?
Leafy 
| 29 Sep 05:10 |
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Joined: 02 Jun 2010 Posts: 9 Bike: My Profile | I've been thinking recently of cycling from where I live (Rainworth... but I'll take Mansfield!) to Derby and wasn't really sure how to do it. I am generally a leisure cyclist, don't cycle on main roads, just back ones round little estates, and always use cycle paths where they are laid out. So, I am not the sort you will find sprinting down the A38 in a competition with an artic!!! I am trying to piece together a route but am finding it quite difficult. I mean the easiest thing would be if there was a cycle route down the A38 but I'm not holding my breath!! I have downloaded the Mansfield & Ashfield Cycle Map from the council which is great, and it shows there is an on-pavement cycle path down the section of the A38 that goes through that area. However, I downloaded the Derbyshire one and that doesn't seem to show all the on-pavement ones so the A38 is blank - and although I am not sure on ALL of the A38, I am sure that nearer to Derby there are some on-pavement ones. Then there is always Google Maps, which is a lot better than it used to be as it now shows cycle routes, but they are not always the safest routes. Realistically I think my options are: 1. Rainworth->NCN route 6 down to Newstead Abbey/Hucknall->across to Eastwood->Erewash Valley Trail to Long Eaton->NCN to Derby (I am unclear how I would make the Hucknall-Eastwood section) 2. Rainworth->Sutton-in-Ashfield->Kirkby-in-Ashfield->Ripley->Ripley Greenway down to Derby (I am unclear about the Kirkby-Riply section) There is always the option of NCN 6 all the way to Nottingham and across to Derby, but this is probably the greatest distance not to mention a route I have done in chunks previously, so I am keen to try something different. So if you have any thoughts or suggestions (even on any completely different routes!, I'd be most grateful. |
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