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Wednesday 3rd December 2025 - Xmas Lunch

Forecast looking good. There will be no official ride but some  riders will be gathering at Holt Drive at 9.30 and will endeavour to sort out some rides to Rothley Court for lunch Loughborough to Shepshed cycleway NCN6 Help us get full Right of Way status! Why we need your evidence: The section of National Cycle Route (NCR6), which goes from Coe Avenue in Thorpe Acre to Butthole Lane and across the M1 to Shepshed, was established at the Millennium with the goodwill of the De Lisle Estate. This means that although landowner permission for cycleway use is provided much of this section is, in Right of Way terms, currently classified as a Footpath. (It being labelled as part of K68 on the Leicestershire Definitive Map). Not having Bridleway status (which is the category which gives rights to use by cyclists) means, as has been recently demonstrated when the route has had to be closed for cable laying works, that the statutory protection is somewhat limited. Additionally, the land which...