National Cycle Route 166
National Cycle Network Route 166 is a Sustrans regional route in the Yorkshire Wolds between Kirkham and Hunmanby. It is one of 5 NCN routes that make up the 146 mile Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route. Created in 2011 it is fully open and signed.Route
The entire route is on road, along quiet country lanes. The western end is at Kirkham, North Yorkshire, where it joins the north western end of NCN 167. It passes through the town of Norton-on-Derwent and then the villages of Settrington, Duggleby, Kirby Grindalythe, Sledmere, Weaverthorpe and Foxholes on its way to its eastern end at Hunmanby. Here it meets NCN 1.
The Yorkshire Wolds is a rolling landscape, there are few flat sections in this route and there is an accumulated ascent of and of accumulated descent.
The steepest gradients are the climbs out of Norton and Settrington.Related NCN Routes
Route 166 meets the following routes:
- 167 at Kirkham
- 1 at Hunmanby
NCN 166 is part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route with:
