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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

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

Double Digit National Routes

Number Route Major incomplete sections Notes Map
10 Cockermouth – North Shields, via Carlisle, Kielder Forest, and Bellingham Forms the majority of the Reivers Cycle Route OSM
11 Harlow – Wiggenhall St Germans (south of King's Lynn), via Cambridge and Ely Harlow – Stanstead Mountfitchet; Waterbeach – Wicken; link to Saffron Walden OSM
12 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
13 Tower Bridge – Barking – Grays – Chelmsford – Colchester – Bury St Edmunds – Thetford – Fakenham Sections around Grays Joins route 1 between Chelmsford and Colchester OSM
14 Darlington – Stockton-on-Tees – Hartlepool – Durham – Consett – South Shields Also known as the Three Rivers Cycle Route OSM
15 (Nottingham – Grantham – Sleaford) Connect route 6 in Belton, near Shepshed Leicestershire with route 1 in Lincolnshire near Coningsb OSM
16 (Basildon – Shoeburyness) OSM
17 Rochester – ( spur to Maidstone) – Ashford (proposed) to Newchurch, Kent joining Route 2 OSM
18 Canterbury – Ashford – Tenterden – Tunbridge Wells OSM
20 Wandsworth – Redhill – Crawley – Brighton Joins route 21 between Redhill and Crawley OSM
21 Greenwich – Lewisham – Crawley – East Grinstead – Heathfield – Eastbourne Several sections are not suitable for road bikes. OSM
22 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
23 Reading – Basingstoke – Winchester – Eastleigh – Southampton – Cowes – Sandown OSM
24 Bath – Radstock – Frome – Longleat – Warminster – Salisbury – Romsey – Eastleigh Also known as the Colliers Way OSM
25 Longleat – Gillingham – Blandford Forum – Poole – Bournemouth OSM
26 Portishead – Clevedon – Cheddar – Wells – Glastonbury – Yeovil – Dorchester – Weymouth – Portland Bill Portishead – Clevedon
Cheddar – Glastonbury 		Also known as The Strawberry Line OSM
27 Ilfracombe – Barnstaple – Okehampton – Tavistock – Plymouth Also known as the Devon Coast to Coast cycle route OSM
28 Okehampton – Bovey Tracey – Newton Abbot – Totnes – Salcombe – Yealmpton – Plymouth Okehampton – Bovey Tracey
Newton Abbot – Tontes
Yealmpton – Plymouth 		OSM
32 Bodmin – Padstow – Newquay – Truro Part of the Cornish Way cycle route OSM
33 Bristol – Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare – Bridgwater – Taunton – Ilminster – Chard – Axminster – Seaton Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare Also known as the Wessex Cycleway OSM
34 Exeter St Davids – Exeter – Bridge Road Joins route 2 at Bridge Road Map
41 Bristol – Gloucester – Cheltenham – Tewkesbury – Evesham – Stratford-upon-Avon – Royal Leamington Spa – Rugby Cheltenham – Tewkesbury
Evesham – Stratford-upon-Avon 		OSM
42 Gloucester – Cinderford – Parkend – Chepstow – Abergavenny – Hay-on-Wye – Glasbury Gloucester – Cinderford
Parkend – Chepstow 		OSM
43 Swansea – Caehopkin – Llanwrtyd Wells – Builth Wells Caehopkin – Llanwrtyd Wells OSM
44 Shrewsbury – Bishop's Castle – Bromfield – Ludlow – Hereford – Cinderford Ludlow – Cinderford OSM
45 Chester – Shrewsbury – Kidderminster – Worcester – Gloucester – Swindon – Salisbury OSM
46 Bromsgrove – Droitwich – Worcester – Hereford – Abergavenny – Merthyr Tydfil – Neath Worcester – Hereford OSM
47 Newport – Neath – Swansea – Llanelli – Carmarthen – Fishguard Neath – Llanelli OSM
48 Lincoln – Leicester – Cirencester – Bath – Exeter Cirencester – Exeter OSM
49 Abergavenny – Pontypool – Cwmbran – Newport OSM
50 (Maidenhead – Winslow) OSM
51 Colchester – Harwich – Ipswich- Felixstowe – Cambridge – Bedford – Milton Keynes – Oxford OSM
52 (Stratford-upon-Avon – Loughborough) OSM
53 (Peterborough – Lichfield) OSM
54 (Stourport-on-Severn – Kidderminster – Dudley) – Lichfield – Derby OSM
55 (Ironbridge – Preston) OSM
56 Chester – Liverpool, via Wallasey OSM
57 Northleach – Witney (-) Oxford – Thame – Princes Risborough – Chesham (–) Hemel Hempstead – Harpenden (– Welwyn Garden City) OSM
60 Manchester – Prestwich Cheetham Hill – Prestwich OSM
61 Maidenhead – Uxbridge – Rickmansworth – Hatfield – Ware OSM
62 Fleetwood – Blackpool – Preston – Southport – Liverpool – Warrington – Manchester – Doncaster – Selby Hutton – Southport The Trans Pennine Trail OSM
63 Burton upon Trent – Leicester – Oakham (–) Peterborough – Wisbech OSM
64 Market Harborough – Melton Mowbray (–) Collingham – Lincoln OSM
65 Hornsea – Hull – Selby – York – Middlesbrough Also known as the White Rose cycle route OSM
66 Spurn Head – Hull – Beverley – York – Leeds – Bradford – Hebden Bridge – Rochdale – Manchester Spurn – Hull; Tadcaster – Branham; Mirfield – Brighouse; Castleton – Failsworth OSM
67 Long Eaton – Heanor – Chesterfield – Leeds –Northallerton Includes the Nidderdale Greenway and Trans Pennine Trail OSM
68 Derby – Buxton – New Mills - Holmfirth – Settle – Appleby – Haltwhistle – Berwick-upon-Tweed The Pennine Cycleway running up the spine of England OSM
69 Morecambe – Settle – Skipton – Cullingworth – Huddersfield – Horbury – Pontefract – Althorpe – Caistor – Grimsby Other than the long section formig 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
70 Barrow-in-Furness – Kendal – Kirkby Stephen – Barnard Castle – Durham – Sunderland W2W, Walney 2 Wear Map
71 Northallerton – Appleby – Penrith – Whitehaven and Workington Western end of C2C OSM
72 Kendal – Barrow-in-Furness – Whitehaven – Silloth – Carlisle – Tynemouth Kendal – Ravenglass Includes Hadrian's Cycleway OSM
73 Newton Stewart – Stranraer and Lochranza – Kilmarnock OSM
74 Gretna – Douglas (– Lesmahagow –) Larkhall – Hamilton – Uddingston OSM
75 Portavadie – Dunoon – Gourock – Glasgow – Edinburgh – Leith OSM
76 Berwick-upon-Tweed – Edinburgh – Stirling – Kirkcaldy - St Andrews Kirkcaldy - St Andrews The Round the Forth Route OSM
77 Dundee – Pitlochry, via Perth OSM
78 Campbeltown – Inverness Great Glens Cycle Route OSM
81 Aberystwyth – Shrewsbury – Telford – Wolverhampton – Smethwick Known as Lon Cambria OSM
82 Bangor – Capel Curig - Porthmadog – Dolgellau – Machynlleth (–) Ystrad Meurig – Fishguard OSM
84 Rhyl – St Asaph (- Llangollen – Oswestry) OSM
85 Chester – Wrexham - Trevor – Llangollen (- Corwen – Bala – Dolgellau) OSM
88 Caerleon – Newport – Cardiff( – Bridgend) Map
91 Portadown – Tynan Includes a figure-of-eight based around Enniskillen known as the Kingfisher Trail Map
92 Enniskillen – Derry Map
93 Belfast – Derry Map
94 A circuit of Lough Neagh; also known as the Loughshore Trail Map
95 Tynan – Pettigo, via Lough Neagh and Newtownstewart. Map
96 Toome – Portglenone (– Coleraine) Map

Three Digit Regional Routes

Zone 1

Zone 2

Zone 3

  • 305: Bugle, Cornwall
  • 326: NCN3 inland braid to Truro

327: Launceston to Tavistock

Zone 4

  • 403: North Wiltshire NCN4 braid
  • 410: Avon Cycleway (Bristol Ring)
  • 413: Evesham – Cheltenham NCN45 cut-off
  • 416: Bristol – Yate
  • 423: Cwmbran – Monmouth – Ross (former RR30 and Peregrine Path)
  • 425: Docklands – Camberwell
  • 426: Skenfirth – Kentchurch
  • 436: Dulais Valley, South Wales
  • 437: South Wales to Glanaman
  • 438: South Wales to Glanaman
  • 439: South Wales to Glanaman
  • 440: Milford Haven
  • 442: Cotswold Line Cycle Route: Worcester – Evesham – Oxford
  • 446: Carmarthen – Llandysul
  • 447: Cardiganshire to Newcastle Emlyn
  • 448: Crymych – Cardigan
  • 451: Nantwich – Crewe – Sandbach
  • 455: Oswestry – Ellesmere – Whitchurch (former RR31)
  • 461: Slough / Eton Dorney
  • 465: Pontypool – Hafodyrynys (- Crumlin); (Aberbeeg -) Cwm – Beaufort
  • 466: Valleys
  • 467: Valleys
  • 468: (Trethomas -) Pengam – Abertysswyg (-) Rhymney – Bute Town
  • 469: Bargoed – (Fochriw – Rhymney)
  • 475: Caerphilly – Senghenydd
  • 476: Trelewis – Taff Bargoed
  • 477: Edwardsville – Merthyr Tydfil
  • 478: Abercynon – Llwydcoed
  • 481: Salisbury Plain NCN45 braid
  • 482: Chiseldon – Marlborough NCN45 braid
  • 485: Fosse2 link to Daventry
  • 492: Cwmbran – Brynmawr

Zone 5

  • 523: Kenilworth – Balsall Common – Hampton-in-Arden
  • 524: Nuneaton-Tamworth-Alrewas
  • 525: North Warwickshire Cycleway (W) and Coventry link
  • 526: North Warwickshire Cycleway (E)
  • 533: Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
  • 534: Sutton Coldfield Connect2 – Sutton Park to Castle Vale
  • 535: Birmingham – Sutton Coldfield
  • 536: Banbury – Towcester – Northampton – Thrapston
  • 539: Northampton Norbital
  • 544: Didcot – Wantage (former Regional Route 44)
  • 547: south-east Peak District
  • 548: Hartington – High Peak Trail
  • 549: Etwall – Uttoxeter – Maniford Trail
  • 550: Caldon Canal towpath
  • 551: Newcastle-under-Lyme – Silverdale
  • 552: Newport – Market Drayton (former RR75)
  • 554: Lichfield – Hednesford link
  • 555: Stoke – Kidsgrove via Trent & Mersey Canal towpath
  • 558: South Manchester
  • 559: Caldon Canal Leek Branch – the Roaches
  • 561: Warrington – St Helens – Skelmerdale
  • 562: Runcorn – Widnes – St Helens – Wigan – Southport
  • 566: Anglesey north coast
  • 568: Wirral – Hawarden Bridge – Chester (former Regional Route 89)
  • 573: Congleton – Northwich (former Regional Route 73)
  • 576: Rickmansworth – Chesham – Wendover
  • 577: Witney – Carterton – Cricklade
  • 585: former RR55 Redditch – Birmingham, and canal towpath to city centre

Zone 6

  • 622: Preston Guild Wheel (circular route)
  • 627: Sheffield – Penistone – Kirkburton
  • 633: Worthington – Ashby – Moira
  • 636: Harrogate – Knaresborough, also known as the Beryl Burton cycleway
  • 645: Sherwood Forest – Southwell
  • 646: Carlton-le-Moorland, Lincolnshire
  • 647: Lincoln – Worksop
  • 648: Bakewell – Sherwood Forest
  • 656: Coxwold – Osmotherly. The High Level Option of the White Rose route.
  • 657: Easingwold – Upsall. Thirsk area loop
  • 658: York northern city route
  • 665: East Leeds – Tadcaster – Wetherby – York
  • 668: north Leeds
  • 672: Derby – Ilkeston greenway
  • 674: Bluebell Way: Thurcroft – Woodsetts, link to Doncaster and Worksop
  • 676: Mansfield
  • 677: north Leeds (Roundhay Park)
  • 680: Monsall Trail
  • 681: Pennine Cycleway moorland route from Hebden Bridge
  • 686: Pennine Cycleway military land route from Bellingham
  • 688: Winterburn – Linton-on-Ouse. Way of the Roses central section
  • 689: Huddersfield – Meltham
  • 696: Airedale Greenway: Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath Keighley – Shipley
  • 697: Linesway Greenway: Castleford – Garforth
  • 699: Huddersfield Narrow Canal east, and east from Dewsbury

Zone 7

Zone 8

  • 810: Liverpool – Ainsdale (former Regional Route 81) (out-of-zone number)
  • 811: Valleys – Porth-Pontypridd (Rhondda Fach)
  • 818: Llangurig NCN81 high level braid
  • 819: Rhayader-Strata Florida southern braid
  • 820: Llanwrtyd Wells – Strata Florida/NCN81
  • 822: Aberaeron – Lampeter
  • 825: Radnor Ring
  • 862: Gellings Greenway: Kirkby – Knowsley (Liverpool)
  • 881: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Pontypridd – Maerdy)
  • 882: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Treorchy)
  • 883: Valleys (Ogmore Valley)
  • 884: Valleys (Garw Valley)
  • 885: Bridgend – Maesteg – Afan Forest Park
  • 887: Port Talbot – Pontrhydyfen – Afan Forest Park

See also

  • The National Byway: A non-Sustrans route, South West Scotland to South West England, 4,500 mile in total.

References

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