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Lee Valley: Britain’s lowest-headroom underpass?

Posted on 22 July 201017 January 2025 by Rob Ainsley


Is this the lowest-headroom cycle bridge in Britain*? It’s on National Cycle Route 1 following the Lee Valley north, in Walthamstow marshes.

The cycle path ducks under a railway bridge at Coppermill Lane and leaves you just five feet of headroom, or 152cm – that’s about the minimum required width for a cycle lane.

(The minimum required headroom for underpasses according to TA90/05 appears to be 2.4m, or an inch or two under eight feet.)

This young lady has obviously had practice.

*EDIT: There’s an even lower underpass in Bedford, which I visited in Jan 2025.

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