Cloud Trail – Swarkestone Lock loop from Spondon

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Cloud Trail – Swarkestone Lock loop from Spondon

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Cloud Trail – Swarkestone Lock loop from Spondon

02:11

35.6km

90m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 22, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that is highly dangerous

A part of this route comprises highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 5.55 km for 30 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

Get Directions

126 m

Spondon Linear Park

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Cycle and walking path on the route of the derelict Derby and Sandiacre canal. Nice flat route but with varying quality surface. The eastern end is excellent tarmac, the central portion fairly rocky and the western part old tarmac.

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3.27 km

Borrowash Bottom Lock (Ockbrook Lock), Derby & Sandiacre Canal Restoration

Highlight • Structure

16.2 km

View of the River Trent from the bridge

Highlight • Viewpoint

Swans just landing as we were looking

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19.2 km

Cloud Trail

Highlight • Cycleway

This is an old converted railway line that runs from a very impressive quarry near Wilson to the Trent and Mersey Canal near Swarkestone.

It's part of National Cycle Route …

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22.5 km

Trent & Mersey Canal Towpath

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

As of Jan 2023, the towpath has been upgraded and widened with a tarmac surface. The previously very awkward (impossible for some) barriers have been greatly improved.

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24.9 km

Swarkestone Lock

Highlight • River

Nice place to rest on a cycle ride next to a lock on the Trent & Mersey canal. Can travel north from here to Derby on the route of the …

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28.6 km

Hippo Wood

Forest

29.9 km

Derby Canal Path (National Cycle Route 6)

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

We were handicapped by having to get to Derby from Belper's, where we live. If you start from Derby, might want to go from Elvaston castle to Weston on Trent, …

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