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 cha ...

(NCN) Route 64 is a

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 Kin ...

National Route that runs from

Market Harborough Market Harborough is a market town in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, in the far southeast of the county, forming part of the border with Northamptonshire. Market Harborough's population was 25,143 in 2020. It is the admi ...

() to

Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * 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 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 ...

Route

Route 64 starts in

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 Owston and Newbold is a civil parish, west of Oakham in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census (including Marefield) was 112. The Parish Church of St Andrew, Owst ...

and then passes through the centre of

Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town had a population 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promo ...

. It crosses into

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir Woolsthorpe by Belvoir, also known as Woolsthorpe is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 415. It is situated approximately west from G ...

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

Thoroton Thoroton is a small English parish in the borough of Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, with a population of 112. The village has conservation area status. Its Anglican parish church is a Grade I listed building. Geography Thoroton lies along the ban ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

and travels in a north easterly direction picking up the Newark to Cotham Railway Path, a traffic free route as far as Newark Northgate Station. From there the route follows quite roads to Harby where it joins a railway path to Lincoln, passing through the city centre to end at a junction with NCN 1,

Related NCN routes

Route 64 meets the following routes: * 6 at

() * 63 at

Goadby Goadby is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, about 8 miles north of Market Harborough. It had a population of 204 according to the 2011 census. The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Gauti' ...

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() * 15 at

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647 __NOTOC__ Year 647 ( DCXLVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 647 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

at Harby () * 1 at

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References

External links

Route 64 on the Sustrans web siteRoute 64 on OSM
{{NCN , state=collapsed Cycleways in England National Cycle Routes