List of National Cycle Network routes

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 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	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
	Longleat – Gillingham – Blandford Forum – Poole – Bournemouth			OSM
	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
	Okehampton – Bovey Tracey – Newton Abbot – Totnes – Salcombe – Yealmpton – Plymouth	Okehampton – Bovey Tracey Newton Abbot – Tontes Yealmpton – Plymouth		OSM
	Bodmin – Padstow – Newquay – Truro		Part of the Cornish Way cycle route	OSM
	Bristol – Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare – Bridgwater – Taunton – Ilminster – Chard – Axminster – Seaton	Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare	Also known as the Wessex Cycleway	OSM
	Exeter St Davids – Exeter – Bridge Road		Joins route 2 at Bridge Road	Map
	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
	Bromsgrove – Droitwich – Worcester – Hereford – Abergavenny – Merthyr Tydfil – Neath	Worcester – Hereford		OSM
47	Newport – Neath – Swansea – Llanelli – Carmarthen – Fishguard	Neath – Llanelli		OSM
	Lincoln – Leicester – Cirencester – Bath – Exeter	Cirencester – Exeter		OSM
	Abergavenny – Pontypool – Cwmbran – Newport			OSM
	(Maidenhead – Winslow)			OSM
51	Colchester – Harwich – Ipswich- Felixstowe – Cambridge – Bedford – Milton Keynes – Oxford			OSM
	(Stratford-upon-Avon – Loughborough)			OSM
	(Peterborough – Lichfield)			OSM
54	(Stourport-on-Severn – Kidderminster – Dudley) – Lichfield – Derby			OSM
	(Ironbridge – Preston)			OSM
56	Chester – Liverpool, via Wallasey			OSM
57	Northleach – Witney (-) Oxford – Thame – Princes Risborough – Chesham (–) Hemel Hempstead – Harpenden (– Welwyn Garden City)			OSM
	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 forming 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
	Rhyl – St Asaph (- Llangollen – Oswestry)			OSM
	Chester – Wrexham - Trevor – Llangollen (- Corwen – Bala – Dolgellau)			OSM
88	Caerleon – Newport – Cardiff( – Bridgend)			Map
	Portadown - Armagh – Tynan & Newtownbutler - Florencecourt - Enniskillen - Irvinestown - Castle Archdale		Includes a figure-of-eight based around Enniskillen known as the	Map
	Derry - Strabane - Plumbridge/Newtownstewart - Omagh - Ballinamallard			Map
	Newtownards - Bangor & Belfast – Newtownabbey & Larne - Ballycastle - Coleraine - Limavady - Derry			Map
	A circuit of Lough Neagh; also known as the . Portadown - Ardboe - Antrim - Aghagallon			Map
	Tynan – Dungannon - Cookstown - Newtownstewart - Castlederg - Pettigo			Map
	Toome – Portglenone - Ballymoney – Coleraine			Map
	Ballymena – Glenarm			Map
	Belfast – Comber - Newtownards - Portavogie - Downpatrick - Newcastle			Map

Three Digit Regional Routes[]

Zone 1[]

: (Cleethorpes – Beelsby, Lincolnshire) linking Cleethorpes to NCR 1 at Beelsby
: (Sandy – Gamlingay – Cambridge)
: (Eaton Socon – Cambridge)
125: Darent Valley (Dartford) – this follows the route of the long-distance path Darent Valley Path)
: Ingrebourne Valley Connect2 scheme
: Stifford Bridge and Purfleet, (following the route of the Mardyke Way (along the Mardyke (river))
141: Keelman's Way: Wylam – NCN 14 (along south bank of River Tyne)
: Sleaford branch of NCN15
155: Morpeth
164: Pocklington - Hutton Cranswick and Kiplingcotes - Beverley. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route and The Way of the Roses route.
165: Barnard Castle - Whitby. A branch of the W2W route (previously regional route 52)
166: Kirkham Abbey- Hunmanby. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.
167: Kirkham Abbey - Huggate. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.
: link south-east of Middlesbrough
169: Scunthorpe Ridgeway
: Towpath of Royal Military Canal
174: Isle of Sheppey – 'Sheerness Way'
: Maidstone – Ashford
: Maidstone – Tonbridge
179: Around the Hoo Peninsula (also known as the Heron Trail)
: Aberdeen – Aboyne
: Pencaitland railway path (RR 73) east of Edinburgh

Zone 2[]

: Devon: South Brent – Dartington
: South London: Raynes Park – Morden
: (Beddington Park, Sutton – South Norwood Country Park, Croydon)
: Basingstoke Canal
: Sussex Downs Link
: Guildford – Chertsey
: Farnham – Medstead
: Isle of Wight
: (Mitcham Common, Merton – Lloyd Park, Croydon)
: Isle of Wight
: Portsmouth – Lyndhurst
: Two Tunnels Greenway, Bath
: Totton – Romsey – Andover – Stockbridge – Kintbury
: Honiton – Sidmouth
: North Dorset Trailway
: South Somerset Cycleway (RR41)
: Wiltshire Cycleway
: Wiltshire Cycleway links, Chippenham area
: Ringwood – Wimborne Minster
: Castle Cary – Keinton Mandeville
: Bridport – Maiden Newton railway path
: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid
: Devon: Ivybridge – Yelverton, also Ashburton and east
: southern NCN3 braid near Holsworthy
: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid (Peter Tavy to Clearbrook)
: North Devon coast (former RR)
: North Devon coast (former RR)
: North Devon coast (former RR)
: Devon Coast-to-Coast Woolacombe braid

Zone 3[]

: Bugle, Cornwall
: NCN3 inland braid to Truro
: Launceston to Tavistock
: south from Bristol
: north from Taunton
: Bridgwater – Langport – Ilminster
: Exeter – Crediton
: NCN3 alternate braid to Bampton

Zone 4[]

: North Wiltshire NCN4 braid
: Avon Cycleway (Bristol Ring)
: Evesham – Cheltenham NCN45 cut-off
: Bristol – Yate
: Cwmbran – Monmouth – Ross (former RR30 and Peregrine Path)
: Docklands – Camberwell
: Skenfirth – Kentchurch
: Dulais Valley, South Wales
: South Wales to Glanaman
: South Wales to Glanaman
: South Wales to Glanaman
: Milford Haven
: Cotswold Line Cycle Route: Worcester – Evesham – Oxford
: Carmarthen – Llandysul
: Cardiganshire to Newcastle Emlyn
: Crymych – Cardigan
: Nantwich – Crewe – Sandbach
: Oswestry – Ellesmere – Whitchurch (former RR31)
: Slough / Eton Dorney
: Pontypool – Hafodyrynys (- Crumlin); (Aberbeeg -) Cwm – Beaufort
: Valleys
: Valleys
: (Trethomas -) Pengam – Abertysswyg (-) Rhymney – Bute Town
: Bargoed – (Fochriw – Rhymney)
: Caerphilly – Senghenydd
: Trelewis – Taff Bargoed
: Edwardsville – Merthyr Tydfil
: Abercynon – Llwydcoed
: Salisbury Plain NCN45 braid
: Chiseldon – Marlborough NCN45 braid
: Fosse2 link to Daventry
: Cwmbran – Brynmawr

Zone 5[]

: Kenilworth – Balsall Common – Hampton-in-Arden
: Nuneaton-Tamworth-Alrewas
: North Warwickshire Cycleway (W) and Coventry link
: North Warwickshire Cycleway (E)
: Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
: Sutton Coldfield Connect2 – Sutton Park to Castle Vale
: Birmingham – Sutton Coldfield
: Banbury – Towcester – Northampton – Thrapston
: Northampton Norbital
544: Didcot – Wantage (former Regional Route 44)
: south-east Peak District
: Hartington – High Peak Trail
: Etwall – Uttoxeter – Maniford Trail
: Caldon Canal towpath
: Newcastle-under-Lyme – Silverdale
: Newport – Market Drayton (former RR75)
: Lichfield – Hednesford link
: Stoke – Kidsgrove via Trent & Mersey Canal towpath
: South Manchester
: Caldon Canal Leek Branch – the Roaches
: Warrington – St Helens – Skelmerdale
: Runcorn – Widnes – St Helens – Wigan – Southport
: Anglesey north coast
: Wirral – Hawarden Bridge – Chester (former Regional Route 89)
: Congleton – Northwich (former Regional Route 73)
: Rickmansworth – Chesham – Wendover
: Witney – Carterton – Cricklade
: former RR55 Redditch – Birmingham, and canal towpath to city centre

Zone 6[]

622: Preston Guild Wheel (circular route)
: Sheffield – Penistone – Kirkburton
: Worthington – Ashby – Moira
636: Harrogate – Knaresborough, also known as the Beryl Burton cycleway
: Sherwood Forest – Southwell
: 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: Wetherby – Tadcaster – York
: north Leeds
: Derby – Ilkeston greenway
: Bluebell Way: Thurcroft – Woodsetts, link to Doncaster and Worksop
: north Leeds (Roundhay Park)
: Monsall Trail
688: Winterburn – Linton-on-Ouse. Way of the Roses central section
: Huddersfield – Meltham
: Airedale Greenway: Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath Keighley – Shipley
: Linesway Greenway: Castleford – Garforth
: Huddersfield Narrow Canal east, and east from Dewsbury

Zone 7[]

700: Bay Cycle Way: Glasson Dock – Walney Island
: Barnard Castle – Bishop Auckland (Walney 2 Wear alternative)
725: Great North Cycleway: Darlington – Newcastle – Blyth
: West Kilbride – Largs – Gourock
754: Bowling – Clydebank – Kirkintilloch – Falkirk – Linlithgow – Edinburgh (Forth and Clyde Canal & Union Canal)
756: East Kilbride – Rutherglen – Glasgow – Kelvindale (- Bishopbriggs)
: Clackmannan – Dunfermline
: Stirling – Bridge of Allan
: Star of Markinch – Glenrothes – Kirkcaldy
: Alloa – Tillicoultry – Dollar
: Tullibody – Alva (- Tillicoultry)
: Milnathort – Perth – Lochearnhead
: Newburgh – Auchtermuchty – Falkland
: Newburgh – Newport-on-Tay
: Hebridean Way: Vatersay – Barra – Eriskay – Uist – Berneray – Lewis and Harris

Zone 8[]

: Liverpool – Ainsdale (former Regional Route 81) (out-of-zone number)
: Valleys – Porth-Pontypridd (Rhondda Fach)
818: Llangurig NCN81 high level braid
: Rhayader-Strata Florida southern braid
: Llanwrtyd Wells – Strata Florida/NCN81
: Aberaeron – Lampeter
: Radnor Ring
: Gellings Greenway: Kirkby – Knowsley (Liverpool)
: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Pontypridd – Maerdy)
: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Treorchy)
: Valleys (Ogmore Valley)
: Valleys (Garw Valley)
: Bridgend – Maesteg – Afan Forest Park
: Port Talbot – Pontrhydyfen – Afan Forest Park

v t Sustrans' National Cycle Network
List of routes
Main routes	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
National routes	10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 27 42 43 44 45 47 51 54 56 57 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 81 82 88
Regional routes	125 141 155 164 165 166 167 169 174 179 544 622 636 647 648 656 657 658 665 688 700 725 754 756 818
Named routes	C2C Celtic Trail Clyde to Forth Colliers Way Cornish Way Darent Valley Path Forth and Clyde Canal Pathway Hadrian's Cycleway Heron Trail Keelmans Way Lon Cambria Lôn Las Ogwen Pennine Cycleway Mercian Way Salmon Run cycle route Scunthorpe Ridgeway Sheerness Way Trans Pennine Trail Way of the Roses White Rose cycle route W2W Yorkshire Wolds cycle route