The National Byway

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National Byway sign at a road junction

The National Byway is a 3,200-miles signposted cycling route round much of Great Britain, from Ayr in the north to the Dorset coast in the south.[1] It runs along quiet roads, rather than a mixture of roads and tracks like the National Cycle Network, making it more appropriate for road bikes.

The route is managed by a registered charity called The National Byway Trust.[2]

Cycling Britain describes the route as offering "over 4,000 miles of safe and easy-to-follow signposted cycle routes around the UK."[3]

Maps are available from the National Byway web site and Sustrans.[4][5]

Funding

The National Byway has been creatd largely as a government project with taxpayers' money, receiving over one million pounds of funding for various projects from the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme.[6]

National Byway signpost
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References

  1. Welcome To The National Byway
  2. The National Byway Trust - Registered Charity no. 1110196 at the Charity Commission
  3. O'Carroll, Etain; Anderson, Aaron; Di Duca, Marc: '[https://books.google.com/books?id=j3utlbrmxcEC&pg=PA359 Cycling Britain' (Lonely Planet, 2009) ISB 978-1-74104-042-5; page 359
  4. "The National Byway Shop". http://www.thenationalbyway.org/shop/. 
  5. "Sustrans Shop". https://shop.sustrans.org.uk/. 
  6. Brown, Christopher Stephen: 'https://books.google.com/books?id=DNHcGEyBiVYC&pg=PA170 The Sustainable Enterprise: Profiting from Best Practice]' (Kogan Page Publishers, 2005) ISBN 978-0-7494-4220-0; page 170