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National Cycle Route 647
National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 647 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Clumber Park to Harby . The route is in length and is fully open and signed in both directions. History The eastern end of the route is a railway path along the trackbed of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway. It crosses the River Trent on the Fledborough Viaduct. Opened in 1897, it consists of 59 arches spread either side of four metal girder spans which cross the river itself. Nine million bricks were used in its construction. Route NCN 647 is the core section of a Worksop to Lincoln cycleway. Worksop is along NCN Route 6 from the eastern trailhead and Lincoln from the western end and can be accessed via NCN Route 64. From its junction with NCN 6 it runs west through Gold Medal Wood before joining quite roads to pass through several North Nottinghamshire villages to reach the town of Tuxford, shortly after which it joins the railway path all the way to the junction with NCN 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cycle Network
The National Cycle Network (NCN) is the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom, which was established to encourage cycling and walking throughout Britain, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring. It was created by the charity Sustrans who were aided by a £42.5 million National Lottery grant. However Sustrans themselves only own around 2% of the paths on the network, these rest being made of existing public highways and rights of way, and permissive paths negotiated by Sustrans with private landowners, which Sustrans have then labelled as part of their network. In 2017, the Network was used for over 786 million cycling and walking trips, made by 4.4 million people. In 2020, around a quarter the NCN was scrapped on safety grounds, leaving of signed routes. These are made up of of traffic-free paths with the remaining on-road. It uses shared use paths, disused railways, minor roads, canal towpaths and traffic-calmed routes in towns and cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clumber Park
Clumber Park is a country park in The Dukeries near Worksop in Nottinghamshire, England. The estate, which was the seat of the Pelham-Clintons, Dukes of Newcastle, was purchased by the National Trust in 1946. It is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The main house was demolished in 1938 after damage by several fires. The nearby Grade I listed chapel in Gothic Revival style and a four-acre walled kitchen garden still survive. The gardens and the estate are managed by the National Trust and are open to the public all year round. In 2020/21 over 350,000 people visited Clumber Park, making it one of the National Trust's top ten most visited properties. History Clumber, mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086, was a monastic property in the Middle Ages but later came into the hands of the Holles family.Clumber Park [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harby, Nottinghamshire
Harby is the easternmost village in the English county of Nottinghamshire. The nearest city is Lincoln, over the border in Lincolnshire. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 336, up from 289 at the 2001 census. Heritage Eleanor of Castile The parish church of All Saints' was built in 1875–1876 in Early English style. In the east wall of the tower is a statue in memory of Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of King Edward I of England. She died at the nearby house of Richard de Weston on 28 November 1290. The moated site of Weston's house is to the west of the church. The Queen's body was transported to London for burial. The King ordered Eleanor crosses to be built at each place where her body had rested overnight on the journey. Windmills The capless stump of a five-storey tower windmill, built about 1877, stands at the end of Mill Field Close (). A post mill was also recorded for Harby. Parish change Harby was a township in the parish of North Clifton. It be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sustrans
Sustrans is a United Kingdom-based walking, wheeling and cycling charity, and the custodian of the National Cycle Network. Its flagship project is the National Cycle Network, which has created of signed cycle routes throughout the United Kingdom including of traffic-free paths. The rest of the network is on previously existing and mostly minor roads, in which motor traffic will be encountered. Sustrans works with schools to encourage active travel (cycling, walking or scooting) among students. It also works with employers and local authorities. It administers several thousand volunteers who contribute their time to the charity in numerous ways, such as cleaning and maintaining the National Cycle Network, enhancing biodiversity along the routes, leading walks and rides and supporting communities to improve their air quality. In Scotland, Sustrans has established partnership teams, embedding officers in local councils as well as NHS Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire, Derbyshire And East Coast Railway
The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) was built to connect coalfields in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire with Warrington and a new port on the Lincolnshire coast. It was a huge undertaking, and the company was unable to raise the money to build its line. With the financial help of the Great Eastern Railway it managed to open between Chesterfield and Lincoln with a branch towards Sheffield from 1896. Despite efforts to promote tourist travel, the passenger business was never buoyant, but collieries were connected to the line, at first and in succeeding years. The Great Eastern Railway, and other main line companies, transported coal to the southern counties, and the company's engines took coal to Immingham in great quantities. The company had a fleet of tank engines. The Sheffield branch was not completed, but interests in Sheffield encouraged its extension which was built by a nominally independent company, the Sheffield District Railway, sponsored by the LD&E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Trent
The Trent is the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, third-longest river in the United Kingdom. Its Source (river or stream), source is in Staffordshire, on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains the North Midlands. The river is known for dramatic flooding after storms and spring snowmelt, which in the past often caused the river to change course. The river passes through Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Staffordshire , Stone, Rugeley, Burton upon Trent and Nottingham before joining the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea between Kingston upon Hull, Hull in Yorkshire and Immingham in Lincolnshire. The wide Humber estuary has often been described as the boundary between the Midlands and the north of England. Name The name "Trent" is possibly from a Romano-British word meaning "strongly flooding". More specifically, the name may be a contraction of two Romano-British words, ''tros'' (" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fledborough Viaduct
Fledborough Viaduct is a former railway viaduct near Fledborough, Nottinghamshire which is now part of the national cycle network. History The viaduct is a substantial structure which carried the double-track LD&ECR's Chesterfield Market Place to Lincoln Central main line over the River Trent. It is situated between the former stations of Fledborough and Clifton-on-Trent, but nearer the latter. Opened in 1897, it consists of 59 arches spread either side of four metal girder spans which cross the river itself. Nine million bricks were used in its construction which cost £65,000. Timetabled passenger services over the viaduct ended in September 1955, though summer weekend excursions from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire to Cleethorpes and Mablethorpe and from Manchester Central to Yarmouth Vauxhall continued until 1964. From the 1960s traffic east of Langwith Junction was overwhelmingly coal, much of which went straight from collieries to High Marnham Power Station which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headington
Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames valley below, and bordering Marston to the north-west, Cowley to the south, and Barton and Risinghurst to the east. The life of the large residential area is centred upon London Road, the main road between London and Oxford. History The site of Headington shows evidence of continued occupation from the Stone Age, as the 2001 field excavations in Barton Lane found, suggesting a date in the 11th century BC. Pottery was found on the Manor Ground, suggesting an Iron Age settlement there in the 7th century BC. Roman kilns from about 300 have been found, including one now on display at the Museum of Oxford. Anglo-Saxon burial remains from about 500 have also been discovered. Headington's toponym is derived from the Old English ''Hedena's dun'', meaning "Hedena's hill", when it was the site of a palace or hunting lodge of the Kings of Mercia. In a charter of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cycle Route 6
Route Parts of the route are currently incomplete and some sections follow other routes. London to Milton Keynes The proposed route is to begin in central London, running from via Paddington railway station to the Grand Union Canal. The towpath alongside the canal between Paddington and Northolt is already designated as a local cycle path, and will eventually form part of Route 6 when the route is completed. The canal continues to Uxbridge where the National Cycle Route 6 joins National Cycle Route 61 at Cowley, near Brunel University, sharing the same path until the two routes diverge at St Albans. The route continues along the Grand Union Canal and the Colne Valley on mainly traffic-free routes. At Rickmansworth it joins the Ebury Way, a rail trail which runs along a former line of the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway. Entering central Watford, the route continues north via St Albans with some on-road sections to Harpenden, where it intersects with National Cycle Route 57 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cycle Route 64
National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 64 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Market Harborough () to Lincoln (). The route is in length and is fully open and signed in both directions. There are three sections to the route, NCN 63 and NCN 15 form the links between these sections. History Between Cotham and Newark the route uses the track bed of the old Newark to Bottesford railway. From Harby to the outskirts of Lincoln the route is a railway path along the trackbed of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway. Route Route 64 starts in Market Harborough at a junction with NCN 6. It heads north through the Leicestershire countryside to Goadby where it is interrupted by NCN Route 63. It restarts at Owston and Newbold and then passes through the centre of Melton Mowbray. It crosses into Lincolnshire at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir and stops shortly after when it meets NCN 15 on the toepath of the Grantham Canal. Route 64 reappears at another junction with NCN 15 near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycleways In England
This is a list of recreational cycle routes in England. *The Alban Way, Hertfordshire *The Bristol & Bath Railway Path *The Camel Trail, North Cornwall *ThCheshire Cycleway Cheshire *Clay Trails, Cornwall *Fallowfield Loop, Manchester * Fledborough Trail (Lincoln - Fledborough), Lincs./Notts. *Great Flat Lode trail, Cornwall *Greensand Cycle Way, Bedfordshire * The Greenway, Warwickshire * The Greenway, east London * The Ebury Way Cycle Path *High Peak Trail, Derbyshire *Manifold Way, Staffordshire * Marriott Way, Norfolk *The Milton Keynes redway system *Middlewood Way, Cheshire/Stockport *Mineral Tramway Trails, Cornwall *Monsal Trail, Derbyshire * Nickey Line, Hertfordshire *The Parkland Walk, North London *Reepham Bridle and Cycle Route, Norfolk *Sea to Sea Cycle Route, northern England *Sett Valley Trail, Derbyshire *The Sunshine Trail, Isle of Wight *Tarka Trail, Devon *Tissington Trail, Derbyshire * The Somerset Levels host a number of designated cycleways. * Water Rail W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
