List of National Cycle Network routes

This is a list of routes on Sustrans's National Cycle Network within the United Kingdom. Sections planned or under development are shown in brackets.


 * Route 1: Dover – Shetland, along the east coast, via London, Edinburgh, John o' Groats and Orkney
 * Route 2: Dover – St Austell, along the south coast
 * Route 3: Bristol – Land's End, incorporating the West Country Way via Chew Valley Lake, and the Cornish Way
 * Route 4: London – St David's, in West Wales, via Reading, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Swansea and Llanelli.
 * Route 5: Reading – Holyhead, via Ernest, The Midlands and the North Wales coast
 * Route 6: Windsor – Lake District, via Luton, Milton Keynes, Northampton and Derby, crossing the Pennine Cycleway
 * Route 7: Carlisle – Inverness via Glasgow, incorporating the Clyde and Loch Lomond Cycleway
 * Route 8: Cardiff – Holyhead, through the heart of Wales. Also known as Lôn Las Cymru
 * Route 9: Belfast – Newry (proposed to run to Dublin)
 * Route 10: Tynemouth — Cockermouth. Was regional route 10 Reivers Cycle Route. Return route for the C2C / Sea to Sea Cycle Route. Roughly parallel to the C2C and Hadrian's Cycleway. It is a branch of National Route 1.
 * Route 11: (Harlow – Cambridge – King's Lynn)
 * Route 12: (Enfield) – Potters Bar – Letchworth – (Peterborough – Boston – Grimsby), also known as the Great North Way
 * Route 13: (Hackney – Chelmsford – Colchester - Bury St Edmunds – Thetford – Fakenham
 * Route 14: (Barnard Castle –) Stockton-on-Tees – Hartlepool – Durham – Consett – South Shields
 * Route 15: (Nottingham – Grantham – Sleaford)
 * Route 16: (Basildon – Shoeburyness)
 * Route 17: Rochester – ( spur to Maidstone) – Ashford (proposed) to Newchurch, Kent joining Route 2
 * Route 18: Canterbury – Ashford – Tenterden – Tunbridge Wells
 * Route 20: Crawley – Brighton
 * Route 21: Greenwich – Lewisham – Crawley – East Grinstead – Heathfield – Eastbourne
 * Route 22: Banstead – Dorking – Guildford – Farnham – Petersfield – Havant – Portsmouth – (by ferry to Isle of Wight) – Ryde – Yarmouth – (by ferry to New Forest) – Lymington – Brockenhurst
 * Route 23: Reading – Basingstoke (– Alton – Eastleigh – Isle of Wight)
 * Route 24: (Bath – Radstock – Frome (section also known as the Colliers Way) – Warminster – Salisbury – Eastleigh)
 * Route 25: (Longleat – Gillingham – Poole)
 * Route 26: (Clevedon – Wells –) Castle Cary – Yeovil – Dorchester
 * Route 27: Ilfracombe – Plymouth; also known as the Devon Coast to Coast Cycle Route & includes part of the Tarka Trail
 * Route 28: (Okehampton – Newton Abbot –) Totnes – Salcombe
 * Route 32: Bodmin – Truro, via Padstow and Newquay; part of The Cornish Way cycle route
 * Route 33: Pill – Clevedon – Weston-super-Mare – Bridgwater – Chard – Seaton; also known as the Wessex Cycleway
 * Route 41: Bristol – Gloucester (– Stratford-upon-Avon –) Warwick – Leamington Spa – Rugby
 * Route 42: (Gloucester -) Cinderford - Parkend (-) Chepstow – Abergavenny – NCR 8 at Glasbury
 * Route 43: Swansea (– Builth Wells)
 * Route 44: Shrewsbury - Bishop's Castle - Bromfield (- Ludlow - Leominster – Cinderford)
 * Route 45: (Salisbury – Chester)
 * Route 46: (Droitwich – Neath)
 * Route 47: Newport – Fishguard, providing an inland alternative to the Celtic Trail cycle route
 * Route 48: (Leicester – Bath)
 * Route 49: Newport – Pontypool (- Brecon - Carmarthen)
 * Route 50: (Maidenhead – Winslow)
 * Route 51: Colchester – Harwich – Ipswich- Felixstowe – Cambridge – Bedford – Milton Keynes – Oxford)
 * Route 52: (Stratford-upon-Avon – Loughborough)
 * Route 53: (Peterborough – Lichfield)
 * Route 54: (Stourport-on-Severn – Kidderminster – Dudley –) Lichfield – Derby
 * Route 55: (Ironbridge – Preston)
 * Route 56: Chester – Liverpool, via Wallasey
 * Route 57: Northleach – Witney (-) Oxford – Thame – Princes Risborough – Chesham (–) Hemel Hempstead – Harpenden (– Welwyn Garden City)
 * Route 61: Maidenhead – Uxbridge – Rickmansworth – Hatfield – Ware  Note:  Sustrans' own website is wrong and this is the full length of this route.
 * Route 62: the Trans Pennine Trail, Southport – Selby
 * Route 63: Burton upon Trent – Leicester – Oakham (–) Peterborough – Wisbech
 * Route 64: Market Harborough – Melton Mowbray (–) Collingham – Lincoln
 * Route 65: Hull – Middlesbrough; also known as the White Rose cycle route
 * Route 66: Beverley – York (–) Leeds (– Manchester)
 * Route 67: Long Eaton – Heanor (–) Chesterfield – Leeds (–Northallerton)
 * Route 68: the Pennine Cycleway running up the spine of England, Derby – Berwick-upon-Tweed
 * Route 69: (Selby – Skipton)
 * Route 70: Walney 2 Wear
 * Route 71: White Rose route near Northallerton – Workington, via Appleby, Penrith and Whitehaven
 * Route 72: (Kendal – Barrow-in-Furness – Whitehaven –) Silloth – Carlisle – Tynemouth (includes Hadrian's Cycleway)
 * Route 73: (Newton Stewart – Stranraer), Arran, Kintyre
 * Route 74: Gretna – Douglas (– Lesmahagow –) Larkhall – Hamilton – Uddingston
 * Route 75: Gourock – Glasgow – Edinburgh; also known as the Clyde to Forth cycle route
 * Route 76: Berwick-upon-Tweed - Edinburgh – Stirling - Kirkcaldy (- St Andrews) (the Round the Forth Route)
 * Route 77: Dundee – Pitlochry, via Perth
 * Route 78: Campbeltown – Inverness (Great Glens Cycle Route)
 * Route 79: (Boat of Garten – Spey Bay)
 * Route 81: Aberystwyth – Shrewsbury – Telford – Wolverhampton – NCR 5 at Smethwick also known as Lon Cambria
 * Route 82: Bangor - (Capel Curig -) Porthmadog - Dolgellau - Machynlleth (–) Ystrad Meurig - Fishguard
 * Route 84: Rhyl - St Asaph (- Llangollen - Oswestry)
 * Route 85: (Chester - Wrexham -) Trevor - Llangollen (- Corwen - Bala - Dolgellau)
 * Route 88: Caerleon - Newport (- Cardiff – Bridgend)
 * Route 91: Portadown – Tynan; includes a figure-of-eight based around Enniskillen known as the Kingfisher Trail
 * Route 92: Enniskillen – Derry
 * Route 93: (Newry – Ballycastle)
 * Route 94: A circuit of Lough Neagh; also known as the Loughshore Trail
 * Route 95: Tynan – Pettigo, via Lough Neagh and Newtownstewart.
 * Route 96: Toome – Portglenone (– Coleraine)
 * Route 122: (Sandy - Gamlingay - Cambridge)
 * Route 123: (Eaton Socon - Cambridge)
 * Route 125: Darent Valley (Dartford) - this follows the route of the long distance path Darent Valley Path)
 * Route 136: Ingrebourne Valley Connect2 scheme
 * Route 137: Stifford Bridge and Purfleet, (following the route of the Mardyke Way (along the Mardyke (river))
 * Route 141: Keelman's Way: Wylam - NCN 14 (along south bank of River Tyne)
 * Route 151: Sleaford branch of NCN15
 * Route 155: Morpeth
 * Route 164: Yorkshire Wolds (inc. Way of the Roses short-cut)
 * Route 165: Walney to Wear alternate route (Barnard Castle to Whitby)
 * Route 166: near Malton to Hunmanby
 * Route 167: NCN164 to near Malton
 * Route 168: link south-east of Middlesbrough
 * Route 169: Scunthorpe Ridgeway
 * Route 172: Towpath of Royal Military Canal
 * Route 174: Isle of Sheppey - 'Sheerness Way'
 * Route 177: Maidstone - Ashford
 * Route 178: Maidstone - Tonbridge
 * Route 195: Aberdeen - Aboyne
 * Route 196: Pencaitland railway path (RR 73) east of Edinburgh
 * Route 207: Devon: South Brent - Dartington
 * Route 208: South London: Raynes Park - Morden
 * Route 212: (Beddington Park, Sutton – South Norwood Country Park, Croydon)
 * Route 221: Basingstoke Canal
 * Route 222: Sussex Downs Link
 * Route 223: Guildford - Chertsey
 * Route 224: Farnham - Medstead
 * Route 231: Isle of Wight
 * Route 232: (Mitcham Common, Merton – Lloyd Park, Croydon )
 * Route 235: Isle of Wight
 * Route 236: Portsmouth - Lyndhurst
 * Route 244: Two Tunnels Greenway, Bath
 * Route 246: Totton - Romsey - Andover - Stockbridge - Kintbury
 * Route 248: Honiton - Sidmouth
 * Route 250: North Dorset Trailway
 * Route 253: South Somerset Cycleway (RR41)
 * Route 254: Wiltshire Cycleway
 * Route 255: Wiltshire Cycleway links, Chippenham area
 * Route 256: Ringwood - Wimborne Minster
 * Route 264: Castle Cary - Keinton Mandeville
 * Route 267: Bridport - Maiden Newton railway path
 * Route 270: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid
 * Route 272: Devon: Ivybridge - Yelverton, also Ashburton and east
 * Route 273: southern NCN3 braid near Holsworthy
 * Route 274: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid
 * Route 275: North Devon coast (former RR)
 * Route 276: North Devon coast (former RR)
 * Route 277: North Devon coast (former RR)
 * Route 278: Devon Coast-to-Coast Woolacombe braid
 * Route 305: Bugle, Cornwall
 * Route 326: NCN3 inland braid to Truro
 * Route 334: south from Bristol
 * Route 338: north from Taunton
 * Route 339: Bridgwater - Ilminster
 * Route 341: Exeter - Crediton
 * Route 344: NCN3 alternate braid to Bampton
 * Route 403: North Wiltshire NCN4 braid
 * Route 410: Avon Cycleway
 * Route 413: Evesham - Cheltenham NCN45 cut-off
 * Route 416: Bristol - Yate
 * Route 423: Cwmbran - Monmouth - Ross (former RR30 and Peregrine Path)
 * Route 425: Docklands - Camberwell
 * Route 426: Skenfirth - Kentchurch
 * Route 436: Dulais Valley, South Wales
 * Route 437: South Wales to Glanaman
 * Route 438: South Wales to Glanaman
 * Route 439: South Wales to Glanaman
 * Route 440: Milford Haven
 * 442: Cotswold Line Cycle Route: Worcester - Evesham - Oxford
 * 446: Carmarthen - Llandysul
 * 447: Cardiganshire to Newcastle Emlyn
 * 448: Crymych - Cardigan
 * 451: Nantwich - Crewe - Sandbach
 * 455: Oswestry - Ellesmere - Whitchurch (former RR31)
 * 461: Slough / Eton Dorney
 * 465: Pontypool - Hafodyrynys (- Crumlin); (Aberbeeg -) Cwm - Beaufort
 * 466: Valleys
 * 467: Valleys
 * 468: (Trethomas -) Pengam - Abertysswyg (-) Rhymney - Bute Town
 * 469: Bargoed - (Fochriw - Rhymney)
 * 475: Caerphilly - Senghenydd
 * 476: Trelewis - Taff Bargoed
 * 477: Edwardsville - Merthyr Tydfil
 * 478: Abercynon - Llwydcoed
 * 481: Salisbury Plain NCN45 braid
 * 482: Chiseldon - Marlborough NCN45 braid
 * 485: Fosse2 link to Daventry
 * 492: Cwmbran - Brynmawr
 * 523: Kenilworth - Balsall Common - Hampton-in-Arden
 * 524: Nuneaton-Tamworth-Alrewas
 * 525: North Warwickshire Cycleway (W) and Coventry link
 * 526: North Warwickshire Cycleway (E)
 * 533: Ernest & Fazeley Canal
 * 534: Sutton Coldfield Connect2 - Sutton Park to Castle Vale
 * 535: Ernest - Sutton Coldfield
 * 536: Banbury - Towcester - Northampton - Thrapston
 * 539: Northampton Norbital
 * 544: Didcot - Wantage (former Regional Route 44)
 * 547: south-east Peak District
 * 548: Hartington - High Peak Trail
 * 549: Etwall - Uttoxeter - Maniford Trail
 * 550: Caldon Canal towpath
 * 552: Newport - Market Drayton (former RR75)
 * 554: Lichfield - Hednesford link
 * 555: Stoke - Kidsgrove via Trent & Mersey Canal towpath
 * 558: South Manchester
 * 559: Caldon Canal Leek Branch - the Roaches
 * 561: Warrington - St Helens - Skelmerdale
 * 562: Runcorn - Widnes - St Helens - Wigan - Southport
 * 566: Anglesey north coast
 * 568: Wirral - Hawarden Bridge - Chester (former Regional Route 89)
 * 573: Congleton - Northwich (former Regional Route 73)
 * 576: Rickmansworth - Chesham - Wendover
 * 577: Witney - Carterton - Cricklade
 * 585: former RR55 Redditch - Ernest, and canal towpath to city centre
 * 622: Preston Guild Wheel (circular route)
 * 627: Sheffield - Penistone - Kirkburton
 * 633: Worthington - Ashby - Moira
 * 636: Way of the Roses southern braid: Appletreewick - Knaresborough
 * 646: Carlton-le-Moorland, Lincolnshire
 * 647: Lincoln - Worksop
 * 648: Worksop area
 * 656: Thirsk area loop
 * 657: Thirsk area loop
 * 658: York northern city route
 * 665: East Leeds - Tadcaster - Wetherby - York
 * 668: north Leeds
 * 672: Derby-Ilkeston greenway
 * 674: Bluebell Way: Thurcroft - Woodsetts, link to Doncaster and Worksop
 * 676: Mansfield
 * 677: north Leeds (Roundhay Park)
 * 680: Monsall Trail
 * 681: Pennine Cycleway moorland route from Hebden Bridge
 * 686: Pennine Cycleway military land route from Bellingham
 * 688: Way of the Roses central section
 * 689: Huddersfield - Meltham
 * 696: Airedale Greenway: Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath Keighley - Shipley
 * 697: Linesway Greenway: Castleford - Garforth
 * 699: Huddersfield Narrow Canal east, and east from Dewsbury
 * 715: Barnard Castle - Bishop Auckland (Walney 2 Wear alternative)
 * 725: Great North Cycleway: Darlington - Newcastle - Blyth
 * 753: West Kilbride - Largs - Gourock
 * 754: Bowling - Clydebank - Kirkintilloch - Falkirk - Linlithgow - Edinburgh (Forth & Clyde Canal & Union Canal)
 * 756: East Kilbride – Rutherglen – Glasgow - Kelvindale (- Bishopbriggs)
 * 764: Clackmannan - Dunfermline
 * 765: Stirling - Bridge of Allan
 * 766: Star of Markinch - Glenrothes - Kirkcaldy
 * 767: Alloa - Tillicoultry - Dollar
 * 768: Tullibody - Alva (- Tillicoultry)
 * 775: Milnathort - Perth - Lochearnhead
 * 776: Newburgh - Auchtermuchty - Falkland
 * 777: Newburgh - Newport-on-Tay
 * 810: Liverpool - Ainsdale (former Regional Route 81) (out-of-zone number)
 * 811: Valleys - Porth-Pontypridd (Rhondda Fach)
 * 818: Llangurig NCN81 high level braid
 * 819: Rhayader-Strata Florida southern braid
 * 820: Llanwrtyd Wells - Strata Florida/NCN81
 * 822: Aberaeron - Lampeter
 * 825: Radnor Ring
 * 862: Gellings Greenway: Kirkby - Knowsley (Liverpool)
 * 881: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Pontypridd - Maerdy)
 * 882: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Treorchy)
 * 883: Valleys (Ogmore Valley)
 * 884: Valleys (Garw Valley)
 * 885: Bridgend/Pontyclun
 * 887: Maesteg / Afan Valley

Other Primary routes(non Sustrans)

 * The National Byway: South West Scotland to South West England 4,500 mile in total