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CONTENTS

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What to take

Food and drink

What to wear

Fitness

Navigation and waymarking

Stamp collecting

Using this guide

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Stage 1a Whitehaven to Keswick

Link route St Bees to the C2C

Stage 1b Workington to Keswick

Link route Whitehaven to Workington

Stage 2 Keswick to Langwathby

Stage 3 Langwathby to Nenthead

Stage 4 Nenthead to Consett

Stage 5a Consett to Sunderland

Stage 5b Consett to Tynemouth

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Route 1 Lakeland Loop

Route 2 West Coast Loop

Route 3 Western C2C Loop

Route 4 The Old Coach Road

Route 5 Penrith to Carlisle

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Some parts of the C2C are best suited to mountain bikes, but when the going is really rough there are always suitable road options (Stage 4, looking west)

SUSTRANS AND THE C2C

On 11 September 1995 UK Charity Sustrans received £43.5 million from the National Lottery to create the National Cycle Network (NCN), a series of traffic-free paths and quiet on-road routes that connect to every major town and city and pass within 2 miles of 75 per cent of the population, stretching 14,000 miles across the length and breadth of the British Isles. In 2012, over three million people made 485 million journeys on the National Cycle Network, which was extended by 500 miles. Based on average car emissions, the potential carbon dioxide saving of Network journeys was around 884,000 tonnes. Trips made by children on the National Cycle Network numbered 81.4 million, including an estimated 18.4 million to and from school. Sustrans’ maintenance responsibilities along much of the Network cost £1 million during 2012, and as a charity they are reliant on donations and funding to be able to keep these much-loved routes in great shape.