Ride and Meeting in Coalville

On Sunday 9th June, we cycled over to Coalville from Church Gresley Park via NCN to Donisthorpe then through Willesley Woodside through Packington, Heather, Ravenstone and eventually Coalville.

We met up with our colleagues from Leicestershire and rode through Scence Valley Park near Ibstock before cycling back onto NCN63 through Battram Wood to Bagworth and then to Interlink Business Park in Bardon.

The purpose of this ride was to showcase the completed Coalville cycle routes as recently opened by Olympic Gold medal cyclist Dani King.  The work done is very impressive with well signed routes, improved junctions and increased width shared paths.

The map can found on the following link:
http://www.leics.gov.uk/coalville_urban_hi.pdf

Improved Junction

Clear markings to indicate shared path

Widened Shared Path next to busy A511

Clear signs

 Following a ride around this new network, after a wonderful lunch we set back off for Church Gresley taking a detour through Swannington, Worthington, up the Cloud Trail to Melbourne then through Calke Abbey, back up the gruelling Pistern Hill then back through Woodville and via Albert Village Lake.  Our total distance covered was 54 miles.