National Cycle Route 5

National Cycle Route 5 (or NCR 5) is a route of the National Cycle Network, running from Reading to Holyhead.

Route

Reading to Birmingham

Birmingham to Chester

Lower Quinton | Stoke on Trent

Approaching the Welsh border

The route has a junction with National Cycle Route 56 north of Chester Zoo.

Chester to Holyhead

Chester | Conwy | Bangor | Menai Bridge | Holyhead

The track leaves Chester (and England) on the Northern bank of the River Dee. Crossing into Wales, the high quality track crosses the Dee at the side of Hawarden Bridge and then enters the town of Shotton. At this stage the National Cycle Route heads inland and follows a series of quiet roads. Unfortunately the road surfaces are sometimes poor and gradients steep. There are plans to create a better quality route following the coast.

At Talacre the coastal route improves again. It passes through a large caravan site and golf course en route to Prestatyn. From Prestatyn westwards the route hugs the coast and in many places one is just a few metres from the sea.

The path continues through Rhyl where it crosses the River Clwyd and then to Kinmel Bay, Pensarn, Llanddulas, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno. The Llandudno promenade, although not on the official route, is a much better route than the official line which was created before the promenade was opened to cyclists after a long campaign.

The path was much improved West of Conwy in September 2012 by the creation of a traffic free cycle path which now bypasses a particularly dangerous stretch of the A55. Heading further west, the path is highly engineered around the Penmaenmawr area before following quiet lanes into Bangor.

It crosses (with road traffic) the Menai Suspension Bridge and terminates in Holyhead. Much of the road across Anglesey follows county lanes rather than dedicated bike tracks.

External links

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Sustrans Route 5

Sustrans' National Cycle Network

Main routes	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Other routes	11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 32 33 34 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 81 82 83 84 85 88 91 92 93 94 95 96 622

Transport in Worcestershire

Road

Motorways	M5 M42 M50

A-Roads	A38 A44 A46 A422 A435 A441 A442 A448 A449 A456 A491 A4025 A4536

Service Stations	Frankley services Hopwood Park services Strensham services

Other	Icknield Street List of settlements on the A38

Rail

Main lines	Cross-City Line Cross Country Route North Warwickshire Line Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line Cotswold Line

Closed lines	Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line (Dudley to Wolverhampton section)

Stations	Alvechurch Barnt Green Blakedown Bromsgrove Droitwich Spa Evesham Great Malvern Hagley Hartlebury Honeybourne Kidderminster Malvern Link Pershore Redditch Worcester Foregate Street Worcester Shrub Hill Wythall

Closed stations	Astwood Bank Aston-under-Hill Beckford Bengeworth Foley Park Halt Hinton Littleton and Badsey Malvern Wells Ripple Upton-on-Severn

Heritage stations	Arley Bewdley Kidderminster Town Northwood Halt

Other	Severn Valley Railway

Buses

Routes	Worcestershire bus route 144

Companies	Diamond Bus First Midland Red

Other	Bus transport in Bromsgrove

Waterways

Rivers	River Arrow River Avon River Severn River Stour River Teme

Canals	Droitwich Canal Leominster Canal Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Worcester and Birmingham Canal

Other	Diglis Basin Hampton Ferry Tardebigge Engine House Tardebigge Locks

Footpaths

Long-distance footpaths	Cotswold Way Monarch's Way Severn Way Worcestershire Way Wychavon Way

Cycle Paths

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