I don't live in the countryside.
Tomorrow night I'm going for a couple of drinks, the pub is a fifteen minute walk from my house. Il take you a little video of country path walkthrough and see if you find it applicable to cycle on and if you can see.
So you can cycle in outside darkness where you live, but not in the countryside.
From what I have seen of The Sea Wall , Pages Lane & the cycle path between the two, I would just power through. Espescially if I had lived there for over a decade!