Dundee green circular route

Had a great time cycling this route and it’s a great way to explore the city of discovery. Would recommend visiting and giving it a go. The waterfront is great and this route includes NCN1 & 77. Quite a few hills as you go into and around Dundee making it a bit more challenging. Some of the things the route passes by are great to see and would be worthwhile going for a few days to explore more as there are some great things just off the route. Only downside was two roads that had painted cycle lanes. This was roads that had three schools on them and definitely need segregated cycle lanes as you will see in the video. Would have used the pavement here if the schools hadn’t just got out. The reward for that was getting to cycle downhill through templeton woods and camperdown estate. This video took nearly a month to edit so remember to give it the thumbs up and subscribe as this supports me so much. Thanks for watching and safe cycling.

I’m in Dundee and I’m going to be cycling on the green circular circular road route. Uh which is a cycle route around Dundee. It passes by some pretty cool things. I do we’ll see we’ll see what interesting things we see along the way. So join me for the ride. Should be good. This route was recommended to me by someone last year. If there’s any roots or places you think I should visit and make a video about, then let me know in the comments section. Thanks. So, not even a mile along the road and I’m at the Victoria Albert and that’s the discovery. What a day. You’ve also got this excellent psycho hub and cafe. The space under the on-ramp for the T- Road Bridge has been designed to look like Superkllan Park in Copenhagen. A park that forms part of a green roof in Copenhagen. And to be honest, I think they’ve done a great job with what used to be a dead space under here. What do you think? This left takes you up to National Cycle Network number one. We were on 77 before. Cross over the bridge. This isn’t part of the green circular route, but I just want to do this. I want to experience what it’s like to go across this bridge. Let’s see. Not too bizarre being in the middle of the road. When I get to the other side, I put the drone up and have a good look over the tea. I think the whole waterfront looks great from over here. I then head back across the bridge to continue with with what I actually came here to do. [Music] be information point. It’s dotted along the front here and it’s all part of this green circular national cycle network. This is the HMS Unicorn and it was built in Chaffam Royal Dockyard. It was launched in 1824 and it’s the third oldest ship in the world that’s still afloat. The oldest ship in Scotland and in the top six oldest ships in the world. The unicorn is over 200 years old. That’s quite impressive. Originally constructed as a 46 gun fridget, the unicorn arrived in Dundee in 1873 as a training ship for the Royal Navy reserves. This is a role she carried out until the 1960s. To find out more, visit the link in the description or even better visit the ship next time you’re in Dundee. From here, the route goes around Victoria Dock and through some industrial space. This industrial area must have been thriving years ago. Did you know that Dundee used to be a mass producer of the natural textile jute? Dundee dominated this industry that much that it had the nickname of Jtopus. Check this. Feels like it shouldn’t really be here. It’s good. There’s an alternative route map there just in case you don’t want to go through this dodgy bit. Probably put you on the road. This is a great flat stretch. The alternative route is on a shared pavement, so safer at night. The only downside is that it’s a bit of a climb. Yeah. The best thing about this is it’s traffic free. It’s a nice straight as well. Yeah, it’s good. Still on the green circular. Although I’m on the road, there is a sh path here. I’ll just jump onto this. Yeah. Thank you. This is a nice path along the [Music] coast. Pretty cool. This Great shared path takes us along the coast of Gautry Ferry. This is such a nice area and the Esplanad is popular attraction on this perfectly sunny [Music] day. Nothing happening in there. Looks like the phone’s just been taking it nice again. Don’t even know what I said there, but I decided to scar her before I smashed anything [Music] else. Broy Castle sits here on the mouth of the tea and was built in 1496. It’s a museum and although it didn’t look open when I was here, it houses fascinating displays of the life and times of Broy Fairy. [Music] I really wished I had more time to hang around here as this place is stunning, but I’ve got to keep moving. I head on and it’s a chance to cycle on some cool infrastructure that I’ve been wanting to use since I started planning this visit. This great cycle path along the side of the road definitely improves National Cycle Route number one along this stretch, as well as making this area look and feel so much better. It’s an absolute joy to travel along and explore. [Music] Rottyfairy active travel.com is a cool website where you can see all these concepts that are now in place making this area a more desirable place to live in and visit. [Music] This is a great stretch. Beautiful coastline as well. Absolutely superb. And what a day for it as well. Loving this. I’m loving this. I believe I go over this bridge. It’s coming up as well. Hey, so this is where I come off National Cycle Network number one and head this way. Now away from the coastline, I head up Albert Street and along Durham Street. These roads are quiet and this takes me to the Diety Burn. From now on, this route will loosely follow the Diet Burn using a combination of pathways and quiet roads that follow the burden connecting parks and green spaces. The seven arches or Balmosi vioaduct was built as part of the Dundee and For Direct Railway that was built in the 1860s. You can still see the green line of trees where the railway used to branch away from existing line on Google Maps. There is a separate active travel balmosi to the seven arches route that you can see the plans for in the broughty ferryy active travel website that I linked to earlier. This vioaduct was the greatest part of engineering on the line. The vioaduct comprises of 7 ft spans on 152 yd crossing with a 75 ft rise over the river sections. It’s also great to see that the vioaduct is still in use to this day as part of a pathway. It’s quite impressive. I believe it’s a foot path going across the top of it. If my research is correct, it’s my favorite type of surface. Love the sound of stones pinging under the tires. This is why I wear a buff. Clean it. I head up and over Belgilla Road on this quite acceptable shared path. This is a shift. Turning right here, but I’m a bit unsure if I’m going the right way. I head left here along this path. Thank you. And cycle for about 100 meters before there is a sign letting me know I’m on a cycle way. Not sure if I’m going the right way. I definitely felt quite lost in these last few sections. [Music] I’ll definitely say that it’s not well signed go. Here we go. I’m I’m on it. Just a short distance from here is Clay Pots Castle. Built in the late 1500s, this quirky building is quite remarkable. With its round towers and attic rooms, this towerhouse is considered to be a time capsule as it has barely been altered in its 500year lifetime. It retains lots of its original features, including its timber roof. This great building owes its preservation to having had consistent occupants for nearly its entire lifetime. Definitely going to give it a proper visit next time I’m here. [Music] [Music] Yes. [Music] Hey, paths for all that. Doesn’t even make any sense. There’s nothing wrong with it. It looks like they’ve done all the work already. Do we need to take the fence away? Right. To be honest, I don’t think we understood a word each other were saying there. Thankfully, there was a big fence blocking the way for context. [Music] [Music] Yeah. Hey, I’m guessing I go there now. [Music] Heat. Heat. Finan aqueduct was built in 1844 as part of a pipeline to bring water from the Mon bun to stops Mu reservoir. A second water man was added on top in 1862. This probably explains its unusual shape. The expansion proved inadequate and was superseded in 1870 by a new water supply from the lock of Linra Rafen that is 26 mi north of [Music] Dundee. Okay, that’s got something to do with it. It’s probably green succul [Music] Well done. Only half putting in a shift at this [Music] bit. Too busy. The trotic mill ponds were built over 200 years ago to provide water for the cleaver house bleach works. a finishing mill for linen production. It’s now a local nature reserve that contains a huge variety of wild flowers in the fields that they used to dry the linen in. These fields had to be kept short and apparently this is the reason why there are so many wild flowers present to this day. I love that the gates of the water are still in place to this day. I’m not a fan of these barriers that are in place to stop people using motorbikes. This is a barrier that prevents people in wheelchairs from gaining access to these beautiful areas. When I first spotted a sign prohibiting motorbike use on the path, I thought there wouldn’t be a problem. Nice bridge. But now, having now completed the route, I can understand why these measures are in place. Still sage. My legs are like jelly. Cross over here. We come away from the green paths that follow the diet burn connecting parks and join Hariston Road. This joins onto Leard Street further on and it’s mostly uphill and quite a slog. These roads claim to be cycle friendly and I’m not sure if it’s because the schools had just got out, but it did feel like it was rather busy with traffic. The painted cycle gutter didn’t help as this just forces drivers to close past cyclists and I had a few moments on this stretch myself. These two roads desperately need segregated cycle lanes, and there is definitely room for it. This isn’t just so that green circular route becomes a step closer to being traffic free. It’s so that children going to school have a safe choice of travel that doesn’t cost the planet. These two roads that I’m talking about just so happen to have free schools and a nursery on them. So, cycling infrastructure that calms traffic and protects vulnerable road users is an instant win for me and should be for anyone who is a child that attends one of these schools. Clato Country Park is situated in the northwest of Dundee and is home to Clato Reservoir that was built in 1874 as part of Dundy’s water supply. The reservoir isn’t connected to the water supply anymore and is now used for water sports. There was a promise of toilet facilities, but unfortunately these were closed on the day I visited. My advice for anyone doing this route is to plan to use supermarket bathrooms as the public ones in this area are unreliable. Massive hell to get here. All road as well. Painted bicycle gutter. If it just had a segregated cycle on it, properly connect this proof. This is better. I think water [Music] tower. I like a water tower. Look at that. [Music] Plato water Tower or Gallow Hill Water Tower is probably the earliest example of this type of water tower that you will find in Scotland. It looks so eerie and out of place when you come across it in these woods. Definitely worth a visit and I bet it looks great at night as well. That’s a cracker. Mountain bike trails. We could do that in this. I’ll stop here for a we bit. You can get me food with me. Thank you. The cycle through Templeton Woods was really enjoyable and relaxing. This was needed on the back of that previous climb up those terrible roads. I would have used the pavements for that section of the loop if the schools hadn’t just come out. Hell, there you go. Please go back. Even know if I went was going the right way there. Crossing that road takes us into Camperdown Park. [Music] I mean, that was great seeing some road deer there. Just love the way they move. It’s good. All the forests and parks are all connected. It’s just a pity. It’s no sort of a complete circuit. Uh does warn you. It did warn me beforehand that there would be onroad [Music] sections and definitely surfaces not suitable for my tires anyway. I’ve been worse. But I so far been having a great time. Been a bit quiet the last few miles. It was bit a slog. kept get see when I start that get lost because the signage or me just know missing one sign and then I’m lost. So is what it is. But I’ll need to be in control of this bike right now. The Camperdown estate came into public ownership in 1946. Camperdown laundry house was demolished in 1955. And in its place, a pond was created. And in the 70s, it was given a series of upgrades. Stone walls and an island was built as well as a duck house with its Dutch tiled roof. some [Music] [Music] signposts. Camperdown house is the largest Greek revival mansion house remaining in Scotland. It was designed by William Burn and constructed between 1824 and 1828. It was built for Robert Duncan, son of Admiral Adam Duncan, first vi Duncan of Camperdown and Victor of the Battle of Camperdown over the Dutch in 1797. I was just disappointed that the toilets were closed on the day that I decided to visit. Some trees. That’s the biggest monkey puzzle I’ve ever seen. It’s huge. Oh, it’s I see it’s a sedar. Wellington wellington wellington [Music] It’s about here I took took another wrong turn. There was no signage anywhere along this section, but a quick look on Google Street View shows that there used to be some here before the rental company changed the sign. Not to worry though, as I got to see these awesome blossoms and was back on track soon enough. Just come over to this stone circle which has been vandalized over the years but it’s a protected scheduled monument. Nothing much more to say about them. [Music] I’m just um going to be getting back to the car and the rain looks it shower coming in. Yep, definitely. Yeah, got kind of lost in that last we half mile there back there. Um don’t know where I was supposed to go. I would say it’s it’s a better cycle route along the waterfront than what it is, but it’s good to see all the parks and cycle down past the river and stuff like [Music] [Applause] that. I’ll be glad to get back to the car. It’s been actually no bad. I wish I’d got a bit earlier this morning and then I would have been able to film a bit more stop to start and feels better first thing in the morning when there’s no as many people around but it is what it is. Other thing is I was wanting to get a train up but um a return ticket £60 no chance. So unfortunately had to bring the car and disappointing thing is first Christmas present I can remember with a highspeed train model railway inter city 125. Loved that. And uh if I got the train up here, it would have been the highspeed train. HSR HST. Unfortunately, I’ve never been on it and I want to dying to go on it. So, I’m going to have to make a point of getting on it before it’s gone. Yeah, glad to get back to the definitely. But glad to get back. That’s enough cycling for one day. Yeah, I’m done. Quite enjoyed that. Quite enjoyed that.