Around 200,000 people are expected to attend the 136th Big Meeting in Durham on Saturday.
Many roads in the city centre are closed for most of the to allow the Durham Miners' Gala crowds to pass safely through the historic streets.
The easiest way to get in and out is by bus, on one of the organised coaches from the surrounding communities or by train.
Parties travelling by private bus can alight on the main road, directly below the Market Square and their drivers will be directed, by the police, to a large coach park at The Sands on the riverside.
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Parking a car
The centre of Durham is closed to traffic from 7am but access is possible, for those who arrive early, to the multi-storey car park close to the Market Square, Prince Bishops.
There are three large park-and-ride car parks at Belmont, Howlands Farm and Sniperley
People can also park at Houghall Campus.
The following roads are closed from 5am until 8pm to motor vehicles and cycles:
• South Bailey • North Bailey • Bow Lane • Palace Green • Owengate • Saddler Street • Market Place • Silver Street • Framwellgate Bridge • Pelaw Leazes Lane • North Road (Between its junctions with Framwellgate Bridge and Milburngate) • New Elvet Bridge • New Elvet • Dun Cow Lane • Court Lane • Elvet Crescent • Old Elvet • Prison Green • Territorial Lane • Elvet Waterside • Elvet Bridge These roads will be closed between 6am and 8pm: • Whinney Lane • Green Lane • Church Street • Hallgarth Street.
These routes will be closed between 6am and 10am, and 3pm and 8pm:
• Framwellgate Waterside from its junction with Sidegate to its junction with Millburngate • Millburngate between its junctions with A690 and North Road • Millburngate (between North Road and the access to Framwellgate Waterside).
These roads will be closed between 5am and 2pm:
• Claypath (between its junction with Prince Bishops Car Park Roundabout and the junction with Providence Row) • One-way eastbound slip road from A690 to Claypath • Crossgate (from junction with North Road/Framwellgate Bridge to South Street The road that will be closed from 2pm until 8pm: • Claypath (between Prince Bishop Car Park Roundabout and the junction with the one-way eastbound slip road) in a north westerly and then north easterly direction only.
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