mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
In case anyone's interested, Sustrans Route 48 from Leicester to Newark (with a gap that looks like it has an obvious route across) and R64 onto Lincoln looks like a pretty good alternative, although they each wander off where the A46 upgrade has been built on top of the old road. North of Saxondale, it's mostly close to the A46 (and 30% gravel) and south of there it heads off through the Cropwells, Hickling and Nether Broughton before using minor roads paralleling the railways into Leicester.The old Fosse Way from Halford in the north Cotswolds to Sharnford, just south of Leicester is not a bad route. Mostly unclassified or a B road, it gets a bit of local traffic, but it's not a major route so not too busy. The rest of the Fosse Way forms the A46 north of Leicester going up to Lincoln. This is a fast dual carraigeway for the most part and not a pleasant road to ride on, though parts of it have been bypassed, leaving the quiet old road intact. I live about half a mile away from the Saxondale junction between the Fosse Way and the A52.
I've looked into this as part of a possible tour but not ridden it yet.