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.
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.
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.
This narrow footpath appears to be lit.
Almey’s Lane, Earl Shilton. Three of them died at the battle of Waterloo.
View of south Leicestershire from a gap in the houses at Barwell.
There’s a wooden channel on the side of these steps to help wheel bikes from Coventry Road down to the Ashby Canal towpath.
Excellent bike shop in Hinckley.
Good stands next to the library entrance.
Sketcley Lane - closed to motor vehicles
Sketchley Lane - closed to motor traffic.
Covered cycle parking at the visitors entrance to DPD.
Old Leicester and Swannington railway line, now a cycleway, here under a motorway.
Old Leicester and Swannington railway line, now a cycleway.
Old Leicester and Swannington railway line, now a cycleway.
Old Leicester and Swannington railway line, now a cycleway.
Old Leicester and Swannington railway line, now a cycleway.
Access barriers designed to allow for horses and cycles to pass.
Old Leicester and Swannington railway line, now a cycleway.
Access barriers designed to allow for horses and cycles to pass.
An old road blocked off to through motor traffic makes a pleasant short cut.
Racks near Hinckley's new leisure centre at Argent's Mead.
A new supermarket in Hinckley, which has cycle parking right in front of the store.
Dr Bike is coming to Hinckley railway station on 24th August.
BMX track at Hinckley's Richmond Park.
An electric golf cart towed to the club on a cycle trailer.
An electric golf cart towed to the club on a cycle trailer!
Cycle parking at supermarket near the A5 Watling Street.
Cycle parking outside St Mary's Church, Hinckley.
These two units are joined together - stainless steel in concrete and seem to be a quite neat and simple piece of cycle parking, requiring no installation.
Cycle and mini-scooter parking at a school
This was the martketplace manager's bike
Cycle way repaired today 31/05/2013 (reported September 2012) Better late than never
Barwell Lane, Hinckley. Surface of cycle path repaired 31/05/2013. Fault was reported September 2012. Better late than never.
Advanced stop line and approach lane at the northern end of Brookside.
Herford Way: Useful cut through for cycling.
Featherston Drive, Burbage
This was once a railway tunnel but it looks like it has since been rebuilt to provide a very useful link towards Nuneaton.
National Cycle Network milepost - and an artistic response.
Shark's teeth designed to slow down traffic into Higham on the Hill
Traffic hump in Wykin village.
The traffic calmed area of Wykin village.
Cycle symbol road markings.
A useful jitty near the new North Warwickshire and Hinckley college building.
The blue plaque reads:
Hinckley Civic Society
In a house and chapel
on this site
Roman Catholic Priest
Father Matthew Thomas Norton OP
(1732-1800)
re-founded the Dominican order in
England after Henry VIII's
Reformation.
Hinckley and
Covered cycle parking at a new development in Hinckley.
The black sign on these school gates reads:
"Parking on Zig-Zags is selfish and dangerous"
... and it might have added in violation of Highway Code rule 191: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070339
Vehicles passing at a good distance on this approach to Hinckley.
Cycle parking at a Health Centre in Hinckley.
A series of commemorative paving slabs have been installed along this section of the footway in Earl Shilton. They evoke the former status of this village as a hive of industrial activity making shoes and hosiery.
Some cycle racks outside St. Mary's Church, Hinckley.
Hypbrid provision on this Hinckley bypass. [Note this is not proper hybrid provision as cyclists on the track do not have the same priority as they would if on the road.]
Short link: https://cycle.st/photos/good/