Millennium Milepost Higham on The Hill
This milepost is a Rowe type and has a T1/2 disk. This milepost has it's route number painted on instead of being part of the cast.
Spencer Street, Hinckley, oneway street.
A narrow jitty in Hinckley.
A narrow 'jitty' in Hinckley.
A back street in Hinckley
Brookes Yard
See #179181.
Blue plaque for John Boultbee Brooks, developer of the Brook's saddle.
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/jbbrooks.html
Cycles can turn right onto Regent Street from George Street, Hinckley.
This mini-roundabout served the back of Hinckley Leisure centre which has been demolished.
Alleyway with blue plaque for Dr Myra King Merrick
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/hinckleyhistorian-myramerrick.html
Former site of Hinckley Leisure Centre.
Faded cycle marking on Queens Road, Hinckley.
Covered cycle parking at a new development, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Poor access to the shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Hinckley Railway Station is cheered up with planters and a gardened embankment by volunteers sponsored by local businesses.
https://hinckleystation.org.uk/
Hinckley Railway Station is cheered up with planters and a gardened embankment by volunteers sponsored by local businesses.
https://hinckleystation.org.uk/
Covered cycle parking outside ALDI in Hinckley.
Electric vehicles charging point in Hinckley.
This narrow footpath appears to be lit.
Cyclist skirting the stupid chicane on Banky Meadows.
Pinch point on Sapcote Road, Burbage.
Side road off Burbage Road.
Ridiculous chicane at the Outwoods, Burbage near Hinckley.
The Outwoods, Burbage near Hinckley.
The Outwoods, Burbage near Hinckley.
The Outwoods, Burbage near Hinckley.
Stile to cross the Birmingham to Cambridge railway.
Stile to cross the Birmingham to Cambridge railway.
A public footpath skirts the edge of Hinckley Golf Club.
New development connection to public footpath by Hinckley Golf course.
New development seemingly designed with on footway motor vehicle storage.
Footpath connection off the new development.
New development on an edge of Hinckley.
Lack of a dropped kerb suggests that this is a footpath not a cycleway.
This housing development appears to have been built with cycling access, but it’s usually gated off when I go by. Signs claim that it’s private.
Roundabout sponsored by an independent firm of funeral directors.
Roundabout sponsored by an independent firm of funeral directors.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Almey’s Lane, High Street, Earl Shilton.
Almey’s Lane, Earl Shilton. Three of them died at the battle of Waterloo.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Welcome to Earl Shilton, please drive carefully.
Then there’s a mini roundabout and cyclists are directed onto the footway.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Dreadful footway shared use cycling scheme in Earl Shilton. At best the highway authority is trying to do something, but putting cyclists and pedestrians into conflict is not the answer.
Cycle Lane appears and disappears at a junction.
View of south Leicestershire from a gap in the houses at Barwell.
Shortcut, No Cycling sign, no dropped kerb.
Faded cycle symbol on the road, perhaps suggesting this is a cycle route.
Although these signs carry a negative, their main message to me is that a shortcut exists.
Highfields Road one way, Hinckley.
A little bit of filtered permeability with the recent housing development. There's a bollard and a dropped kerb.
Normandy Way, a shared use cycleway at an edge of Hinckley.
Normandy Way, a shared use cycleway at an edge of Hinckley.
Work on resurfacing Dodwells Road, Hinckley shared use cycleway.
Work on resurfacing Dodwells Road, Hinckley shared use cycleway.
Work on resurfacing Dodwells Road, Hinckley shared use cycleway.
I snook through the car park to get past this temporary closure.
Hinckley, home of the pinch-point.
There’s a wooden channel on the side of these steps to help wheel bikes from Coventry Road down to the Ashby Canal towpath.
Coventry Road footway shared use path.
Coventry Road footway shared use path.
The shared use comes to an unceremonious halt here and you have to cross over the busy road to continue.
Coventry Road footway shared use path.
Bridleway but curious 10.5 MPH speed limit.
Coventry Road shared-use cycleway or motor vehicle storage?
Yarnbombing has arrived in Hinckley.
A50 bikeway impassable again today @LeicsCountyHall
One day someone is going to get killed walking or cycling in the dual carriageway here, and I will dig out every time I reported this over the last 9 years! #secondclasscitizens #stopkil