Welcome to the County Town Network (CTN)

What is the CTN?

In a nutshell, the aim of the CTN is to provide a the starting point for bike rides that will, hopefully, inspire people to get out on their bikes and explore a bit more of the countryside

The spread out nature of the county towns means that most people will leave fairly close to the network, and should be able to complete some part of it.

• I've done my best to identify the county towns correctly, but I'll admit that I may have made a few mistakes (Especially with the various splinter factions of Yorkshire)
• I've placed the marker point of each town at the main (as far as I can tell) railway station
  • You may be arriving or departing by train, so it's a good reference point.
  • When entering a town, there are usually signs to the railway station, and the logo is really easy to spot from a distance.
  • They make easily identifiable subject for those "See, I made it!" photos - create your own Flickr page so that people can be impressing by your county town bagging prowess.
  • Newport , on the Isle of Wight (yes, that's a county) doesn't have a railway station, so I've used the council offices for this one.

The rules
_{(Not in a Velominati way, I hasten to add)}

• This is not a race
• There is no obligation for you to circumnavigate the whole network or, for that matter, do it all in one go
• You can take as long as you like , and do as many towns as you like in a single day
• Although you can travel to your start point and from your end point by train, try not to start at a county town (or you haven't really ridden there, have you?)
• You don't have to log the ride (on Strava or Garmin Connect etc), but it might be a good source of reference for others
• The are no official routes, so you can go by roads, cycle paths or bridleways, as is appropriate for your bike/mood/ability at the time