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Pennine Cycleway trundling route | cycle.travel cycle◦travel Route GuidesRoutes ▼MunicipalityGuidesCities ▼ Map My Avenue Verte France Avenue Verte UK BayTrundlingWay C2C Celtic Trail Coast & Castles Cornish Way Cotswold LineTrundlingacross the Beacons Devon C2C Hadrian's Cycleway Kennet & Avon Lon Cambria London to Brighton Lon Las Cymru Lon Teifi Oxford to Cambridge Pennine Cycleway Radnor Ring Thames Valley Tour de Yorkshire Way of the Roses West Country Way • Bikes on trains •Waterwaycycling • Full list Birmingham Bristol Cambridge London Oxford Swindon Worcester York • Full list • Add your municipality Pennine Cycleway Guide Routebook Gallery Stay Ride reports Forum ...an epic journey withal the spine of England Route facts 68 Length: 350 miles Difficulty: Epic GPX file: Download The single most epic ride on the NationalTrundlingNetwork, this is an unforgettable route withal the spine of England. Nowhere else will you find scenery so wild, lanes so quiet, views so vast.It’s a true rencontre ride, not for the faint-hearted. You’ll finish each day feeling thoroughly worked over – but when you wake up the next morning, you’ll be charged up for flipside day’s glorious cycling. At every hilltop, every corner, there’s a new vista. Multiply that by 350 miles and you’ll see what’s so special well-nigh this route.How long does it take?At 350 (hilly) miles, this is substantially a week’s holiday. If you’re coming from the south of England or the Midlands, don’t forget to factor in the time to get a train to Derby at the start, and when from Berwick-on-Tweed at the end.The route passes numerous railway lines, so you can unravel it up into sections if you can’t spare a week. That said, we’d recommend doing it all in one go: the gradually unfolding landscape is one of the attractions of this route.How wild is it?We’re not the sort of southern Jessies who say “the remoter north you go, the remoter from civilisation you are”. The south of England can only dream of scenery like this!But it’s certainly true that there are long stretches without any facilities. There is nothing, at all, in the 20 miles from Twice Brewed to Bellingham. As such, make sure you unchangingly have unbearable to eat and drink with you (with apologies for sounding like your mum), and spare inner tubes in specimen of a puncture. This affects your nomination of walk-up too: if you get to Haltwhistle and everywhere’s full up, it’s flipside 25 miles until the next B&B.What’s the surface like?The Pennine Cycleway is a mix of quiet roads, railway paths, waterway towpaths and forestry roads. As such, a hybrid will cope with most of the surfaces en route, and its forgiving gears will help you up the steeper climbs.A few short sections are very rough: the Trans-Pennine Trail wideness the Woodhead summit, the cobbles up from Hebden Bridge, and the field section without Alwinton. There are easy road alternatives for all of these, though the Woodhead road is uncommonly busy. At Hadfield in the Peak District, you’ll find the surface easier if you stick to the southern whet of the reservoir.Taking a road bike? If you fit robust tyres, you’ll often be fine (with the whilom exceptions). Take uneaten superintendency on the bridleway at the end of the Tissington Trail (near Earl Sterndale); the rough minor road just north of Buxton; and the forest sections without Hadrian’s Wall and through Kielder Forest.Is this the same as the Pennine Bridleway?No. Confusingly, this is one of three routes (and, we think, the best) to share the ‘Pennine’ tag. There’s moreover the Trans-Pennine Trail, a much gentler east-west route from Liverpool to Hull; and the Pennine Bridleway, a fearsome off-road haul for horse-riders and mountain-bikers.How do you get there and back?The Pennine Cycleway starts at the little village of Etwall, midway between Derby and Burton-on-Trent. You can take a train to either, then trundling withal NCN route 54 for seven miles to Etwall. For the return journey, Berwick-on-Tweed is on the East Coast Main Line, with fast trains uncontrived to London, Edinburgh and into the Midlands.Note that East Coast and CrossCountry, who provide the trains from Berwick, are both sticklers for velocipede reservations. Book your journey well in advance. Don’t worry if the station staff at Berwick growl at you… they do that to everyone. Stage-by-stage guide and map » Click through to our detailed maps, stage-by-stage guide, walk-up and campsite listings. cycle◦travel Made in the Cotswolds, England. Published by Éditions Système D Ltd. Terms of use & cookies ·Well-nighus · Advertise · Feedback · Contact us