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Using this guide

This guide is divided into sections, averaging around 40 kilometres in length. The endpoints of these sections are either reasonable candidates for an overnight stop, or places with a train service, or often both. It’s hoped that this structure will help in planning your trip around the Cycleway, but these are only suggestions and there are many alternative stopping-points.

Each chapter includes a detailed description of the route to be followed, accompanied by a route map, usually at 1:200,000 scale. In addition to the maps, there are route profiles for most stages. If there isn’t one, you can assume that it it’s flat!

At the start of each stage of the route you’ll also find a box telling you:

 where the route description starts

 the total length of the stage

 the total ascent

 a brief outline of the nature of the actual riding (how hilly it is, how busy the roads are likely to be, and so on)

 the maximum gradient encountered (if this line is missing, the stage has no climbs of note)