After suggesting sponsored Santa cycles down Wyver Lane to raise more money for our GoFundMe campaign Santa hats have been spotted!
Please add a Santa loop to your lockdown rides and do some publicity for our campaign …!
After suggesting sponsored Santa cycles down Wyver Lane to raise more money for our GoFundMe campaign Santa hats have been spotted!
Please add a Santa loop to your lockdown rides and do some publicity for our campaign …!
Recently the custodians of the National Cycle Network, Sustrans, reviewed the network and removed and reclassified some sections that they believed were not of a sufficient standard. The resulting network in Derbyshire is shown above. One area that is obvious in its lack of adequate connections to the National Cycle Network is the Derwent Valley…
With a new guidebook edition imminent, and days rapidly shortening into winter, my good friend Clon Ulrick and I took the chance to spend three days on a complete walk of “the Way”. Clon and I had met in Botswana years ago, when both living there. We used to camp together with our families in…
We wrote about Pushbike Paul in our December 2020 Newsletter, and the brilliant fundraising work he does. Are new bikes on your family’s Christmas list? Are you having a sort out of those old bikes in your shed? Please donate your old bikes to Push Bike Paul who restores and sells them in aid of…
This week’s Guardian newspaper features the experiences of one of their reporters walking the Heritage Way from Hathersage to Derby. Very positive so perhaps it will lead to many more walkers on the route over the coming weeks. Great to see a holiday article about Derbyshire focusing on the World Heritage Site instead of the…
Derby City Council commissioned a study (by Amion) on the benefits of the Derby to Matlock Derwent Valley Cycleway which concludes that investment in the cycleway would provide “Very High” 4.8:1 benefits from any investment. The majority of the returns would be from the impact of the cycleway on commuting journey quality although there would…
Derbyshire County Council are holding an event on the 28th September 2022 to inform the public (and to collect feedback) on the plans to convert the disused Little Eaton branch line to a cycle and walking route. The scope is to connect directly to the National Cycle Network route 54 at the junction of the…