About the STARS Group
Page last updated 9th. August 2008

The Ranger groups detailed below form the STARS Super Group
Click here for route assignments for each Ranger.

Route Section	Route Name	Section	Distance
(North)	Coast and Castles	Blyth to Lynemouth	12 miles
(South)	Coast and Castles	North Shields to Blyth	10 miles
(Rural)	Derwent Walk	Consett to Blaydon	14 miles
(Urban)	Keelmans Way / South Tyne	Blaydon to South Shields	13 miles
(Rural)	Hadrian's Cycleway	South Shields to Newburn	18 miles
(Urban)	Hadrian's Cycleway	Newburn to Hexham	18 miles
	Reivers Cycle Route	Royal Quays to Ponteland	15 miles

Total route coverage = 100 miles

Map showing the routes covered by Sustrans Tyne Area Rangers

Liaison Rangers

Lindsay Perks	Stuart Rintoul	Phil Goldblatt	Bob Sorley	Doug Ridgway	John Kirkbride
NCN 1 Shields Ferry to South Beach, Blyth	NCN 1 South Beach, Blyth to Lynemouth	RR 10 Royal Quays to Ponteland	NCN 14 Consett To Scotswood Bridge	NCN 72 South Shields to Newburn Bridge	NCN 72 Newburn Bridge to Hexham

Rangers

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Terry Negus Robert Brown Nadine Jobson Brian Johnson

Iain Kitt Ken Davison Carolyn South Dorothy Craw Mark Bingham Kelvin Shields

Lee Cook Danny Crossley David Ryan

David Daniels Rob Wood Ron Dodd Peter Latham Carole Price Don Price Mike Allsopp Andy Turnbull

Marrion Cassidy Jill Bennet Paul Edwin Pat Henderson John Henderson Sandra Lonsdale John Bell Peter Slater

History
Doug Ridgway was appointed Liaison Ranger for Hadrian's Way - NCR 72 between Tynemouth and Newcastle in November 2001 and was asked by Sustrans to set up a Ranger Group.

The inaugral meeting was held on January 29th. 2002, in atrocious weather conditions, at the Bridge Hotel Newcastle, subsequently to be our usual meeting place.
Those present were Doug Ridgway, Phil Goldblat, Gareth Kane, and Chris Owens - two others failed to arrive due to severe transport problems that evening and a further meeting was held later.

Three original Rangers still ride the range, Doug, Phil and Gareth.

Over the intervening years the group has expanded further and further up river on route NCR 72 and also taken in several other National & Regional cycle routes to the extent that separate Liaison Rangers were appointed to look after different route sections but with the overall aim of working together as a team as required.

Eventually six Liaison Rangers plus many Rangers came together to form a new super group.
After a competition which Phil won, the new name of STARS - Sustrans Tyne Area Rangers was decided upon. This enlarged group was to led by Doug Ridgway as overall leader until July 2007 when Doug decided to step down as leader and revert to Liaison Ranger role again but still as part of the STARS group which in future will be run as a co-opertative with various Liason Rangers taking on more specific tasks.

Doug maintains the New STARS web site and holds the stock of tools.