Route Development
The idea of creating a new ‘coast-to-coast’ cycle route across Lancashire and Yorkshire first surfaced in 2007. Since then a growing partnership of various organisations, working in conjunction with Sustrans, the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity, has been developing it.
In addition to the development partners, numerous Sustrans Volunteer Rangers have also been instrumental in the venture. They and others will play an important role in helping to maintain the route, all of which is part of the National Cycle Network.
Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, all content and images are copyright Cooper Douglas Partnership. All site content is provided in good faith and is correct to the best of our knowledge at time of publishing. If you wish to submit corrections or amendments, please contact us.
We cannot be held responsible for content of external websites, and cannot be responsible for any loss, damage or injury in connection with the Way of the Roses Cycle Route.
Additional homepage photography © Paul Harris, 2010
Development Partners
The partners are:-
- Lancaster City Council - incl the Celebrating Cycling project
- Lancashire County Council
- Lancashire & Blackpool Tourist Board
- Forest of Bowland AONB
- Craven District Council
- Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
- Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust
- Nidderdale AONB
- Ripon City Partnership
- Wheel Easy Harrogate
- Harrogate Borough Council
- The National Trust (at Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal and Beningbrough Hall & Gardens)
- North Yorkshire County Council
- CTC (hosted by North Yorkshire Sport)
- City of York Council – incl the Cycling City York project
- Visit York
- Pocklington & Wolds Gateway Partnership
- Bridlington Renaissance Partnership
- East Riding of Yorkshire Council
- Visit Hull & East Yorkshire Tourism Partnership
- The Yorkshire Dales and the Coast, Wolds, Wetlands & Waterways LEADER Programmes (with Defra and European Union funding)
- Welcome to Yorkshire
Contact Us
The Cooper Douglas Partnership is developing this website. We’re an outdoor tourism enterprise (based in Cumbria and Yorkshire) which is working for Sustrans on behalf of the various partners across Lancashire and Yorkshire to help develop the Way of the Roses Cycle Route.
Please contact us if you need help and / or have a photo and some comments about your trip for the Gallery page. We’re also happy to receive more detailed accounts for the Route page, but reserve the right to edit or not use these and any other user supplied content as we see fit. We’ll do our best to let you know as soon as something is uploaded.