[Doctor_Fegg]

Yes, this. There's actually not that much US-style "gravel" in England and Wales: basically a few Forestry Commission tracks in mid-Wales, Northumberland and places like that. Elsewhere it's single-track bridleways that dominate. Routes like King Alfred's Way, the Pennine Bridleway, the Great North Trail and West Kernow Way are sometimes marketed as gravel routes but they're probably more MTB than anything.

[TrueGeek]

I spent a month in the UK and was glad to have brought my CX bike instead of my road bike. Several of the routes (in Kent) that I had thought were going to be road routes suddenly turned into paths that we would classify as gravel here in the states. It was wonderful! So little traffic and not one F350.