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R R E D O U A Subway Playing Fields O Q R A Cycling for leisure Did you know? E L B H IL D RIER C Playing Fields H FIEL D R E W O E T AC PIM Cycling is a good way of exploring Skelmersdale • On average cyclists live two years longer than PL BO LAW R M5 NE IKE OA 8 LA P D E Subway NIP CE and the surrounding countryside. The Lancashire non-cyclists PLA H KET Cycleway skirts the north of the town. PEN P S O A T • An average UK household spends one in every N T

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M A save if you travel by bicycle D B D O A P CE O E A R P PL CK E O I L CT DD M R PE Hotel A S P R O RO B O P • Cycling uses 0.03 mega joules of energy per A A O D D

New R kilometre, 70 times more energy-efﬁcient than O Industrial A West Pimbo Development D CE PLA E AC the average car TON Industrial PL AX D P East Pimbo OO SW OR Estate PRI Up Holland IE PR ST O Industrial County W O • Cycling is the least polluting way of travelling D High School

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