NCN Route 1 | Day 1 | Kent

Continuing in my challenge to ride in every county in Great Britain (and then the UK) this is Trike around the counties | Kent.


I was finding it difficult to decide which counties to ride in next so I've opted for a new plan. Try to ride the length of the NCN Route 1 (1264 miles) from Dover in the south east of the UK up to the Shetland Islands in the very far north of Scotland. The world of work doesn't allow me to do it all in one go so I'll be completeing it in bite sized chunks of two, three and four day tours for now.


To complete the Counties Challenge I'll be visiting each of the 97 counties listed below. These are the old (pre 1900) counties of England, Scotland (S) and Wales (W). The list doesn't include the newer metropolitan counties as I don't fancy triking around some of Britains larger cities very much 👎.

I have no plans to ride them in any particular order but will ride my trike in each of them and I might just stay a little longer in some of the larger counties and maybe a bit less in some of the tiny ones. We will have to wait & see..

The thumbnail to this video and to every video in the "Britain county by county playlist" depicts the recognised county flag. Though in this case the Cumbrian flag appears to be interchangeable with the Cumberland flag depending on who you ask.

I hope you enjoy watching my vlogs. Also check out my website at:
www.timstriketrips.com.

I ride an adapted HP Velotechnik Scorpion FS26 trike.
My panniers and sidebags are made by Ortlieb.
I film using a Canon G7X MkII, GoPro Hero 6 and a DJI Spark Drone. I also occasionally use my Galaxy S9 phone to record some footage but prefer not to if I can help it.

So the counties are...
Aberdeenshire (S)
Anglesey (W)
Angus (S)
Argyll (S)
Ayrshire (S)
Banffshire (S)
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Berwickshire (S)
Brecknockshire (W)
Buckinghamshire
Bute (S)
Caernarfonshire (W)
Caithness (S)
Cambridgeshire
Cardiganshire (W)
Carmarthenshire (W)
Cheshire
City of Bristol
City of Dundee (S)
City of Edinburgh (S)
City of Glasgow (S)
City of London
Clackmannanshire (S)
Cornwall
Cumbria
Denbighshire (W)
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Dumfriesshire (S)
Dunbartonshire (S)
Durham
Dyfed (W)
East Lothian (S)
East Sussex
Essex
Fife (S)
Flintshire (W)
Glamorgan (W)
Gloucestershire
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Inverness-shire (S)
Isle of Wight
Kent
Kincardineshire (S)
Kinross-shire (S)
Kirkcudbrightshire (S)
Lanarkshire (S)
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Merionethshire (W)
Merseyside
Midlothian (S)
Monmouthshire (W)
Montgomeryshire (W)
Moray (S)
Nairnshire (S)
Norfolk
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Orkney (S)
Oxfordshire
Peeblesshire (S)
Pembrokeshire (W)
Perthshire (S)
Radnorshire (W)
Renfrewshire (S)
Ross and Cromarty (S)
Roxburghshire (S)
Rutland
Selkirkshire (S)
Shetland (Zetland) (S)
Shropshire
Somerset
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire
Stirlingshire (S)
Suffolk
Surrey
Sutherland (S)
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
West Lothian (S)
West Midlands
West Sussex
West Yorkshire
Wigtownshire (S)
Wiltshire
Worcestershire

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