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Map Updates


1. Lindal-in-Furness (Mile markers 9-10)
The eastbound route is now signed the same as the westbound route to avoid the busy A590 main road .

2. Ulverston (Mile markers 13-14)
The map doesn’t show a more direct eastbound route into Ulverston from the bottom of Pennington Lane and along a path adjacent to the A590 (please dismount and push your bike for about 100 metres) to the left turn into Daltongate. Better routes through the town centre are about to be signed.

3. Cartmel-Grange (Mile markers 25-27)
The alternative route shown between Cartmel and High Fell Gate via Allithwaite has now been signed as the main route. Between High Fell Gate and Grange-over-Sands the route is shortly to be signed along Cartmel Road and then Kents Bank Road (past the swimming pool). We’re still advised by the town council that cycling along the promenade is not permitted.

4. Gilpin Bridge (Mile markers 34-35)
The new shared-use bridge and path alongside the A590 is now open.

5. Route via Sizergh Castle (Mile markers 36-38)
The ‘optional route via Sizergh Castle’ should not have been included on the map as is not currently open. Further development of this route is required and Sustrans is seeking the relevant permissions and funding for this. Access to Sizergh Castle (The National Trust) can be made from the main route, about halfway between mile markers 37 and 38 north-east of Levens village. Cycling visitors get a discounted entry.

6. Sedgwick – Natland (Mile marker 39)
The route between Sedgwick and Natland (south of Kendal) has been altered. The signed route uses the quieter lane just to the east of mile marker 39.

7. Kendal (Mile markers 40-43)
The route in and out of Kendal shown on the map isn’t yet signed as W2W (20). From Natland you can follow NCN 6 signs pretty much into the centre of town along the line of the old canal.
To leave Kendal, retrace your route in to Burton Road and then turn left to join Oxenholme Road to cycle up past the railway station. Turn left at the crossroads by the Station Inn to continue on the route.

Travelling westwards into Kendal you can carry straight on at the crossroads just before mile marker 43 and head down the hill (Sedbergh Road) to the junction with the main road at the bottom. Turn left and then, with care, turn right into Castle Road to go under the railway bridge to where NCN 6 crosses Parkside Road. Turn right here to reach the town centre.

8. Tan Hill - Sleightholme Farm and Hamsterley Forest (Mile markers 87-90)
The track between Tan Hill and Sleightholme Farm (mile markers 87 and 90 approx) should be described as being rough in places, whereas the route through Hamsterley Forest (N of Barnard Castle), which is described as being an ‘unsealed road’, is in fact a tarmac road for about half its length.

9. North of Kinninvie
Kinninvie is on the northern braid route N of Barnard Castle. N of Kinninvie itself, between mile markers 105-106, there’s a steep gradient which probably warrants a black arrow (it’ll certainly feel like it should!)