Kenilworth to Berkswell Greenway and Warwick University
A new traffic free walking and cycling route in Kenilworth will provide essential link between the Kenilworth Greenway, the University of Warwick connection and into Kenilworth town centre. This long awaited, new route will prove very popular with local residents as well as many students and staff travelling to and from the university campus, and will be a great new addition to existing walking and cycling networks in this local area.
The new route will start opposite Abbey Fields, a popular and much loved park in the heart of Kenilworth, it will then run through Lawrence Gardens alongside Finham Brook, joining some public open space adjacent to The Close next to allotment gardens. The route then briefly follows the quiet cul-de-sac Forge Road and crosses the new cycle bridge onto Kenilworth Common.
Continuing through the Common, it will join the greenway and over a new bridge, which will span over the A429 Coventry Road replacing the original rail bridge, enabling a connection to be made to the Kenilworth Common area and the town centre. After which, the route forks and crosses over farmland to join the University of Warwick campus and also runs for several kilometres along the greenway to the village of Berkswell, in Solihull.
These new walking and cycling links will form part of National Cycle Network 52 linking Coventry to Kenilworth and beyond to Warwick where it joins with route 41 from Rugby to Leamington Spa and Warwick.
Route info - Development of these routes is being completed in phases and some are not fully accessible at the moment. All the routes are anticipated to be complete and open by the end of March 2013, see the Kenilworth Steering Group website for latest news.
Latest news
The fantastic new Kenilworth walking and cycling bridge was installed on the evening of the 10th September 2011 with the official opening event being held to celebrate the achievement of the great milestone.
Watch the bridge go in in this great time-lapse video.
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