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to the Limestone LinX walking • Be visible make sure car drivers and other users can see you and cycling routes. • Be heard by respectfully alerting other users when you’re overtaking • Be prepared by taking a map, mobile and drink
The Limestone LinX walking and cycling network • Be healthier and build your fitness gradually • Be first at work by using the routes to beat the traffic provides 11 miles of routes for you to use and enjoy • Be a good example by following the countryside code in stunning countryside and local nature reserves. You can • Be motivated by timing yourself, taking a friend or learning new use the routes in any combination or separately. They connect the facts about the area. communities of Bowburn, Coxhoe, Old Quarrington, Quarrington Hill Kelloe, Parkhill and Cassop. For more information on:
The routes are for you to explore and enjoy for leisure and travelling. • Places to Walk, Cycle and Ride and public rights of way www.durham.gov.uk/prow or www.durham.gov.uk/maps The network is varied and takes you to local nature reserves through • Countryside sites www.durham.gov.uk/countryside interesting countryside, geology and villages where you can refuel • Cycling www.durham.gov.uk/transport and follow the links and rest. to the cycling pages • Leisure www.activelifecoxhoe.co.uk and You can start the routes at any point but our www.durham.gov.uk/sport suggestions are to start The Fossil Trail and Limestone Joint Stocks routes at the Active Life LinX
Centre @ Coxhoe, The Hills, Vales and Walking and Pitmans Way route at Kelloe and the Cold Cycling Routes Knuckles route at Quarrington Hill.
Explore. fun Have better Feel
Travel smart Travel active Get Cycle Run Walk
Tarmac, National Grid. National Tarmac, to: Thanks
Front coverimage:JBewley/Sustrans 13221
03000 265 309 265 03000
LifeCoxhoe http://Activ Twitter www.activelifecoxhoe.co.uk Visit:
0191 301 8741 301 0191 Contact:
Active Life Centre @ Coxhoe - some bike maintenance bike some - Coxhoe @ Centre Life Active Hire: Cycle
there are provisions and cafes in Coxhoe or Active Life Centre @ Coxhoe @ Centre Life Active or Coxhoe in cafes and provisions are there
Stock up on provisions or enjoy after your adventure - adventure your after enjoy or provisions on up Stock Refreshments:
Regular buses from all directions visit www.traveline.info. visit directions all from buses Regular
Trains to Durham City visit www.nationalrail.co.uk. visit City Durham to Trains ail: Bus/r
DH6 4DW) DH6 (Postcode Coxhoe @ Centre Life Active at Start there: Getting
Routes OS Explorer Map 305 Bishop Auckland Bishop 305 Map Explorer OS Maps:
Walking and Cycling and Walking
Limestone LinX Limestone Information: Useful
Welcome Top Tips:
to the Limestone LinX walking • Be visible make sure car drivers and other users can see you and cycling routes. • Be heard by respectfully alerting other users when you’re overtaking • Be prepared by taking a map, mobile and drink
The Limestone LinX walking and cycling network • Be healthier and build your fitness gradually • Be first at work by using the routes to beat the traffic provides 11 miles of routes for you to use and enjoy • Be a good example by following the countryside code in stunning countryside and local nature reserves. You can • Be motivated by timing yourself, taking a friend or learning new use the routes in any combination or separately. They connect the facts about the area. communities of Bowburn, Coxhoe, Old Quarrington, Quarrington Hill Kelloe, Parkhill and Cassop. For more information on:
The routes are for you to explore and enjoy for leisure and travelling. • Places to Walk, Cycle and Ride and public rights of way www.durham.gov.uk/prow or www.durham.gov.uk/maps The network is varied and takes you to local nature reserves through • Countryside sites www.durham.gov.uk/countryside interesting countryside, geology and villages where you can refuel • Cycling www.durham.gov.uk/transport and follow the links and rest. to the cycling pages • Leisure www.activelifecoxhoe.co.uk and You can start the routes at any point but our www.durham.gov.uk/sport suggestions are to start The Fossil Trail and Limestone Joint Stocks routes at the Active Life LinX Centre @ Coxhoe, The Hills, Vales and Walking and Pitmans Way route at Kelloe and the Cold Cycling Routes Knuckles route at Quarrington Hill. Route Information
E D C
G
B F
A
Key Fossil Trail Route Memorial Garden Route Future alternative route
Cold Knuckles Connection Route Bowburn Link Due to the closure of the bridleway for quarrying, a new route will be created Hills, Vales and Pitmans Way Route Cycle Link in the future. The route will include Joint Stocks Route Road Crossing Points steep sections which may require riders to dismount. A Map Reference Point Biodiversity Areas Fossil Trail: 11 miles (all distances are approximate) Joint Stocks Route: 4 miles
1. With the Active Life Centre @ Coxhoe behind you (A on map), exit the car park Follow steps 1-5 of the Fossil Trail Route and turn right onto Linden Grove. Continue straight on ignoring left turn. Follow 13.At B on the map, turn left, cross the road and go through metal chicane and up the to end and turn right through the gap in the fence onto the path and turn left. ramp. Turn right onto Morley Crescent and follow all the way around until the right 2. Continue to Cornforth Lane and turn right along Cornforth Lane to the roundabout. turn passed the telephone box. Then follow the signposted path on the right. Bear left staying on the shared use path alongside the A177 and to the crossing 14.Follow the path to the left passing Kings Wood Nature Reserve, to meet the road. at Station Road – use the crossing refuge. 15.At G on the map, cross the B2691 carefully and go straight on bearing left. Follow 3. Cross to The Pottery and turn right. Continue past Station Road East using the the path all the way through Crow Trees Nature Reserve, through the chicane and shared use path. to join the quarry road. 4. Turn left at the cycle direction sign and follow the path through the chicane, 16.Turn right and keep to the shared use path next to the quarry road and continue along the bridleway straight ahead. to meet the C23. Turn left follow instructions from step 12. 5. Cross over the bridge and turn immediately left onto the Kelloe Way. Continue along past Raisby Hill Grasslands, through a boom gate and cross over a tarmac path and Hills, Vales and Pitman’s Way: 3 miles through a second boom gate. Take care crossing the road at Front Street, bear left through a boom gate and up a short sharp climb. Continue along until you reach Start at the Limestone LinX interpretation panel at B on the map. the interpretation panel at B on the map. Follow steps 6 to 9 on the Fossil Trail Route. 6. From B, take care at the road crossings and continue straight on through the boom 17.Turn right at the Half Moon at C on the map, cross the road and take the shared gate along the Kelloe Way past the Kelloe Heritage Trail on the right and straight use path on the left just past the play area at D on the map. Continue to a junction on until you reach the road. of paths, turn left and take care to cross the B2691. Take the path straight ahead. 7. Cross the road carefully and take the steep path up to the horsestile and entrance 18.Follow the shared use path round to the right at the bottom of the hill and continue to East Hetton Reclamation Site, follow the path to your right. on to Kelloe. As you enter the housing estate, turn left past the telephone kiosk 8. At the junction of paths turn right. Then at the next junction continue straight on turning left and following the road to the right. over the bridge before turning left up the hill at the next junction. Continue ahead 19.Keep following the road as it bends right again and take the next left at the road and uphill towards Cassop, through two chicanes. junction following the ramp back to the start. 9. Turn left along the tarmac path behind the houses which comes out at the B6291. Continue on the shared use path straight ahead, using the crossing point just before Cold Knuckles Connection: 4 miles Cassop School and continue past Cassop School. Stay on the shared use path to the cross roads. 20.At D on the map, from the shared use path near the play area at Belle Vue, 10.Turn right at the Half Moon (C on map) and head northwards past the play area at D, Quarrington Hill, head north out of Quarrington Hill until you get to the bridleway before turning left onto the signposted bridleway to Old Quarrington at E on the map. at Old Quarrington near the churchyard. Just past the quarry entrance at D on the 11.Follow the path to the left, then as it comes out at the road follow it to the right map look for a signpost on the left pointing to Old Quarrington. passing the farm and then bear left through Old Quarrington. Continue along the road Follow step 11 of the Fossil Trail Route. passing under the main road bridge before turning left towards the A688. Follow the 21.At F on the map turn left up the landfill road and take the left turn into Crow Trees shared use path just past the bridge, turn right and then left at the road crossing near Nature Reserve. the roundabout and then follow the route to Coxhoe passing Park Hill on your right. 22.Follow the path until you get to a junction of paths just before the B6291. Turn left 12.At F on the map, follow the shared use path back alongside the C23 into Coxhoe. and continue through the chicanes straight ahead until you reach the start of your Carefully cross the road at the signed path back to the Active Life Centre @ Coxhoe walk/ride at D on the map. and the start.