New cycle route to connect Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

Plans for Bennerley viaduct to be turned into a cycleway to link the counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

An additional cycleway that will connect Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire could be routed along a 137-year-old viaduct.

Plans are afoot to see the Bennerley viaduct that takes in the Erwash Valley between Awsworth and Ilkeston to be turned into a cycle path.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.