With 14,000 miles of National Cycle Network across the UK, sustainable transport advocates Sustrans had a big job mapping the whole lot on paper. It's now finished its 56-volume Pocket Guides covering the whole country, issuing four maps for Northern Ireland earlier this week.
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The maps also include major routes such as the London Cycle Superhighways, as well as more than 100 recommended day rides and inset maps of towns and city centres. Another feature that BikeRadar appreciates (especially on multi-day tours) is the inclusion of route profiles.
Martyn Brunt, head of mapping at Sustrans, told us that the hardest thing about the map series was getting them all to fit together like a giant jigsaw, so that there weren’t any sections of the UK that weren’t mapped, or any gaps between maps with nothing on. The team also had to check that the important details were still correct, like whether there really is a bike shop on a particular high street.
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The last maps issued in the series were:
- Belfast, Down and Armagh Pocket Cycle Map
- The Fermanagh Lakelands & Tyrone Pocket Cycle Map
- Derry Londonderry & The North West Pocket Cycle Map
- The Causeway Coast & The Glens Pocket Cycle Map
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Incredibly, the only similar series of maps covering bike routes in the UK came out in the 1950s, long before Sustrans started building the National Cycle Network, which began with the Bristol-Bath Railway Path.
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