National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 665 is a Sustrans route from

Wetherby Wetherby () is a market town and civil parish in the City of Leeds district, West Yorkshire, England, close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire, and lies approximately from Leeds City Centre, from York and from Harrogat ...

to South West

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

. Two sections of the route are open. As of summer 2020 the route is not fully signed. The central section between

Tadcaster Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, east of the Great North Road, north-east of Leeds, and south-west of York. Its historical importance from Roman times onward was largely as the ...

and Newton Kyme is still a proposal.

Route

Wetherby to Newton Kyme

Starting on Linton Road Wetherby the route is a railway path before it goes through a housing estate and uses an underpass to cross the

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. There is a rail path from there to Thorpe Arch Estate. When opened in 2007, at a cost of £500,00, this section was numbered as

Route 66 U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The h ...

, it is now fully signed as Route 665. The old railway viaduct over the River Wharfe was reopened as a cycle path in 2018, this formed a new section of the route from the trading estate to the A659 at Newton Kyme. A 500 metre cycle path through the trading estate was installed in spring 2020 to fill the gap in the route which had been left when the Wharfe crossing opened.

Newton Kyme to Tadcaster

As of summer 2020 this route is still a proposal. The planned route follows the A659 to Tadcaster.

Tadcaster to York

The route uses a longstanding verge-side cycle-path next to the A64. NCN 665 ends where it meets Route 65 at Askham Bar Park and Ride site. This section of the route is mainly unsigned. This section is paralleled to the south by NCN 66, which follows quiet country lanes.

Related Routes

Route 65 meets the following routes: * at Askham Bar, York * at Tadcaster * at Wetherby

References

External links

Route 665 on the Sustrans website
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