Once past this section, NCN 57 continues off road or on quiet back streets to join NCN 6 to Luton, Dunstable and Milton Keynes.(You can bypass this if coming from Hatfield by taking a more direct route, see the Hatfield page for more information.) The alternative is to go up the hill south of Wheathampstead, along the ridge and then back down to Leasey Bridge where the cycleway restarts.If need be you can push along the pavement on this section. The B653 Lower Luton Road is unpleasant to ride on due to fast traffic. Please note that there is no cycle path from Wheathampstead to Harpenden, as a local landowner will not sell the land.A nice cafe in Wheathampstead, Marley's (formerly Charlies), is at the end of the route. This then leads west to Wheathampstead along NCN 57, the Ayot Greenway. The NCN12/57 route runs thorough Sherrardspark Wood, an ancient woodland managed by local volunteers.Maps of all the main cycle routes in Hertfordshire are available from the Countryside Management Service.Ī large scale map of the main cycle routes in Hertfordshire is available.
Change at Finsbury Park for Gatwick Airport and Brighton and north to Cambridge via Stevenage, change for Peterborough, York and Scotland. Trains from both stations run south to London.Welwyn North stationhas flat access to both platforms.Welwyn Garden City station has lifts to all platforms suitable for bikes but not tandems.Going south there are two parallel cycle paths to Hatfield via Stanborough Park or Mill Green Museum. It is now an affluent town, home to many commuters into London.įor cyclists, WGC is at the junction of National Cycle Routes 12 ( Great North Way) running north - south, NCN 61 south west - east and NCN 57 which heads north west to join NCN 6 for Luton (but with a difficult gap, see below). Welwyn Garden City (WGC) is a new town founded in the 1920s and for a time a centre of film making.
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