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TIGER MOTH TRAIL HANDLEY Distance: 55 mile circular route PAGE TRAIL Start: Cycle Hub at Lincoln Railway Station Distance: 45 mile circular route The Tiger Moth trail will take you out of Lincoln along the Start: St Marks Shopping Centre “Water Rail Way” - an off-road cycle route - to Woodhall Spa, home of the famous “Dambusters” 617 Squadron, where you This cycle challenge will can visit their Officers’ Mess at the Petwood Hotel. take you out of the city and After going on to Coningsby - home to the up Cross O’Cliff Hill to “The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - you will Heath”, home to operational return via the RAF Metheringham Heritage airfields at Waddington and Centre and the Cemetery at Scopwick where Digby and the world famous John Magee, the young Canadian author of RAF College, Cranwell. You will “High Flight” and other airmen from a number also pass disused airfields and of nations are buried. visit war graves. HAMPDEN Your route back to Lincoln is over “The Heath”, The Handley Page Type O TRAIL home to many airfields during World War II. was an early biplane bomber You will pass through Bracebridge Heath where used by Britain during the First you can make a detour to visit the International Distance: 38 mile circular route World War. The Type O was the Scampton Saxilby Bomber Command Centre. Allow plenty of time Nettleham Start: Visitor Information Centre YOU Fiskerton2 1 ARE Lincoln Doddington 3 Bardney Horncastle largest aircraft that had been Whisby 13 12 4 for visits on this fascinating long distance route. Woodhall Spa Dunston 5 Waddington Metheringham 9 6 11 10 7 Coningsby 8 built in the UK and one of the Named after the Hampden Bomber Billinghay Newark-on-Trent Follow National Cycle Route 1 - the Water Railway Ruskington Trail all the way to Bardney to find Wing 2. (4o Wing miles 2).t Official Trail Sponsor: Cranwell largest in the world. Lincoln’s which served in the early stages of the Rauceby Sleaford long association with bomber Second World War, this cycle challenge aircraft arguably began in 1916 trail takes you out through ‘Bomber when Clayton and Shuttleworth County’ near RAF Scampton, home to were given an order to produce the world famous Red Arrows and past Handley Page bombers. now silent airfields where crews from There is a shortcut at Woodhall Spa around the world formed squadrons that or you can return via the Water Rail were once part of the RAF. Way if you wish to stay off road. Official Trail Sponsor: B 1 Scampton 3 9 Saxilby 10 8 Nettleham Official Trail Sponsor: Market Rasen Fiskerton Fillingham Lincoln 9 Doddington D 12 A Bardney Horncastle Ingham 11 13 Faldingworth 1 8 RO Whisby 7 14 GH D A 2 6 U 5 4 O 3 3 O R 4 Woodhall Spa Scampton O Dunston B R Waddington 2 S Metheringham Saxilby 16 15 IN Y 5 A 1 Nettleham G B L Coningsby 6 16 I Fiskerton 15 7 Billinghay X Lincoln Newark-on-Trent Doddington A Bardney Horncastle S D Whisby 13 14 Ruskington A 9 8 O 10 R 11 H Cranwell 12 G Woodhall Spa Dunston OU Rauceby Sleaford Waddington R Metheringham SBO Please note part of the route is on a M IN Coningsby I A D G Scunthorpe Billinghay D D green lane which might not be suitable L B1190 A A E Ruskington O 5 S G AD 7 R A T O Cranwell IN H R R S A BORO UG EE for some types of cycle. Rauceby Sleaford LN 1 GRE T 5 INCO L E E T LAN E W ND AN E SA L A46 LL N O A46 L TI S B A46 MILLBECK DR ANE PA A 1 IVE U X 3 C IL OC BY 9 8 WEL A15 TOM OTTER'S LANE RO TON B 8 G ENS D A 1 A H D R D AWK OA 2 ORT S AY N H HE R HAR 2 W RTH G AD D 6 N GWO R GR N LA A4 6 HTO IN A L N G DD O O D LAU RIVE WA R C RD N D IN Gibbet Wood CTO IAN L V O A L AD N VE F TH RO RI Superstore L SA C C ABE D LD N Z H ELI ALL O D N A D UEE ALL DRIVE OOD H L IG E A Q T ODH W A R O T O R S R T W U O H O A ET E E G S N B AB H EA M W R LIZ R R V T R W D U E D R A ON B O Y O EN D T R A L R E A E I Y LS S U O N E W TH R TO Q Y R A O L G M URL O 82 E Y W EY AR N B A A 1 M T D Y B A W L O Y N N A A D 1 N EE A U N H C A U V B R B S N G Y Q L G R ES R E D N O E IGH K H I O N TO LLS U B1190 A F U N I T E R 6 A N A L D E W P V N U 4 L E E W LE I P D T U RISEHOL F E R A K Y O R D I A O N A R N R 1 L R G R H E Y D D OAD 5 B A O U V A I H C V 8 O T A L R N V E D P R E E OR D K S King George's N U E D N S M S BRA O LARK D K A T I I P S KL TL T N C O T H C U E H O Field O R Almost the whole route is off-road with just three minor roads to cross and CL R O D W R E R B U TH G L M RE W D A B T V Y SW A T E A E A E 8 D Y E C O R L B O D K H R 15 TO PROCTOR TRAIL U R R C 1 N R IR C A CRES S M 3 BY ES C KEN OAD C M CL a short stretch in the City Centre to Brayford Pool that families with younger 9 R WIC AB E OTT A57 8 ES GR O HA C D TON UR E O R E RL GHTON WAY NE AV L LE IV ATWATER L R' A LAU E T R E NT GR ILFOR E C E ID E OV D D S children may prefer to walk. There is a pub enroute and cafes at Doddington Hall IV ET V SC E A GE DR E R O LAN ON N RI S EED W G O R D C BR R D IFT NS U AV E L E NG TE D IL I GD R C N H as well as lots of restaurants and bars on Brayford Waterfront when you return! E N N Y R S N E ER SE B AD A S IRC N K A RO D E N H Distance: 12 mile circular route TAIG U C BY IO 1 OW H S U IL Z A T E N AX N L N H B R S 2 L G A L E C O O B BR O E H AD 26 RO A D Y T R L L D M D V E A EARN YOUREYS N O R R D Start: Lincoln Railway Station L ILLD O O V D W W R I S I The Percival Proctor was a single-engined, low-wing, British radio ONG BE R V S Y L R W ER M E C A C NT I D P E S LE R E U V I E SC L L H AM Y IF W ITH O NE IVE R E A T O W Y L DR N VENUE B G C 5 A O A U E 1 HAW 6 RIC M G A A IV W A THORN ROAD trainer and communications aircraft of the Second World War. S 4 N D C R R ALK A A E AD A D AXILB W S ROAD N D M R K RO LONGDALE S M N LO R E O C KI B1273 NS IS WINGS N E UN D D Starting at Lincoln Railway Station this family cycle ride will take you out along M R D L D Y G A B A A R D 1 A M ROAD L R 73 E R 3 12 B L D A O B L Y 9 R G I A S C S N Bishop GE S H Don’t forget to collect your P O 8 N A W S B R the Fossdyke Canal and then through fields and woods that once bordered O E A R M N R R O W E O R DE IF E D Grosseteste E S K B T VA D T L N I A P C N W E B T D N N G U E O O RUS S answers on each wing of this E A B I St George's E C S TT D Y U Official Trail Sponsor: S R University V LOW N S E D N R R G RAF Skellingthorpe to the historic Doddington Hall.