It’s a nice leisure route - pretty, through an urban nature reserve. That was probably my last ride there until spring though - too slippery with poor drainage & too often obstructed with fallen branches & also too isolated at quiet times. Need a protected road route (up the 40mph A road…) too.

Yup. A lot of NCN will be getting slippy now with fallen leaves. There's several NCN stretches I won't be doing for a while because the winter weather just makes the surfaces unusable