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Does anyone know of a map book/guide to the national cycle route 1 (North Sea route) that goes from Harwich up the East coast of the UK. There are plenty of references to it by sustrans etc and a map/guide for the Northumberland through to Edinburgh stage - but I can't find anything for the rest of the UK route.

I have a guide to the whole route - I think it was the first eurovelo route and I sent off for it and got all excited. It’s just a pamphlet!

Richard has covered the uk section in this link with a detailed map but no write up. I don’t think cicerone do it either although they’re worth checking.
https://cycle.travel/map/journey/156588

There used to be a map from Sustrans for the Wells-Lynn section but I think it's out of print and probably out of date now. Lynn to Wells is also part of https://cycle.travel/route/norfolk before I fork off onto Route 30 for the rest of it.

If you've got any questions, I've ridden all of Norwich-Lincoln, much of it many times (with the section through King's Lynn on average about twice a week!). I've also ridden London to Harlow and scattered other bits through Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.

Thanks MJR & Mrs HJ, much appreciated.
MJR, if you think of anything to avoid (or see) on the Norwich-Lincoln stage that would be appreciated.
We're starting from Halesworth in Suffolk and heading north. I'm pretty familiar with the route to Norwich!

A couple of years ago attempting to drive through Lincoln to go north was horrible - wall to wall traffic. Best to find a way around it.

Garry Booth wrote: ↑13 Apr 2022, 3:45pm Thanks MJR & Mrs HJ, much appreciated.
MJR, if you think of anything to avoid (or see) on the Norwich-Lincoln stage that would be appreciated.

How do you feel about riding on sand and bouldery gravel?

Many of the things to see between Wells and Lynn are in the Norfolk guide, but, more generally, remember to look right occasionally on the near-coastal ridge sections! If you look carefully from the old mill hill between Ingoldisthorpe and Dersingham, you might pick out Boston "stump" (church), a good day or more before you reach it.

Between Lynn and Lincoln, pause to note the Clarkson memorial in the middle of Wisbech, strange rabbit hill and old sea bank on the exit of Wisbech, visit Boston stump (you have to push past anyway: there is no cycling route northbound through the town centre*), and consider straying off route at Sutton St James to "A Time To Remember" cafe, Chestnut Tea Room at Fleet Hargate, Laddies Famous Ices in Holbeach and Tea House in the Woods in Woodhall Spa.

* that reminds me: it is necessary to leave Route 1 through the centres of Lynn, Wisbech and Lincoln too unless you like walking instead of cycling. Generally, if you go the long way round the town centres, the obvious route works fine: Via King Street in Lynn, via Kings Walk in Wisbech and via Spring Hill in Lincoln. Lincoln by bike is fine: cycleways and filters mean you can stay off the clogged and fast roads. If only more of Lincolnshire was that good.

It's a while now since I've been but in Boston, the Maud Foster Mill is quite central and worth a visit, even if you only stop long enough outside to watch it going round. It's some time since I bought flour in the shop and enjoyed a free tour of the mill itself on the back of my fairly substantial purchase.

http://www.maudfoster.co.uk/