National Cycle Route 166

NCN Route 166
Route 166 in the Yorkshire Wolds near Fordon
Designation UK National Cycle Network
Trailheads Kirkham (west) to Hunmanby (east)
Use Cycling
Elevation
Highest point Settrington Beacon, 201 m (659 ft)
Lowest point Menethorpe, 20 m (66 ft)
Cycling details
Website sustrans.org.uk

National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 166 is a Sustrans regional route in the Yorkshire Wolds between Kirkham and Hunmanby. It is one of 5 NCN routes that make up the 146 mile Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.[1] Created in 2011[2] it is fully open and signed.

Route

Route Map
 mi
 National Cycle Route 167
0
 Kirkham
6
 Norton-on-Derwent
9
 Settrington
10
13
 Norton-on-Derwent
14
 Duggleby
16
 Kirby Grindalythe
17
18.5
 Sledmere
22
 Helperthorpe
23.5
 Weaverthorpe
27
 Foxholes
27
32
33
 Fordon
37
 Hunmanby railway station
37.5
 Hunmanby
 National Cycle Route 1

The entire route is on road, along quiet country lanes. The western end is at Kirkham, North Yorkshire, where is joins the north western end of NCN 167. It passes through the town of Norton-on-Derwent and then the villages of Settrington, Duggleby, Kirby Gindalythe, Sledmere, Weaverthorpe and Foxholes on its way to its eastern end at Hunmanby.[3] Here it meets NCN 1.

The Yorkshire Wolds is a rolling landscape, there are few flat sections in this route.

The steepest gradients are the climbs out of Norton and Settrington.

Route 166 meets the following routes:

NCN 166 is part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route with:

References

  1. ↑ "Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route". Cycle the Yorkshire Wolds. Cooper Douglas Partnership. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Wills, Dixie. "Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route: 146 miles of back roads and huge skies". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Sustrans (2014). Yorkshire Wolds, York & the Humber Cycle Map 28 (1 ed.). Sustrans. p. 2. ISBN 1900623455.
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