UK LONG DISTANCE FOOTPATHS

Photo diaries of the UK's great walking trails

Daily walks

6 min

Burneside – Bowness-on-Windermere

Dales Way – Day 6 – 9 miles What a difference a day makes. After yesterday's murky miles, today dawned with a blue-skied spring in its...

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Grassington – Hubberholme

Dales Way – Day 2 – 12 miles No cold and frosty morning for the second day of the Dales Way. Instead the deluge of last night – I had to...

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Ash-hining Farm to Burneside

Dales Way – Day 5 – 13.2 miles I wake to rain hammering on the velux bathroom window of my farmhouse B&B. It’s just gone six and it’s...

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Dent to Ash-hining Farm (nr Lowgill)

Dales Way – Day 4 – 9.5 miles A post-breakfast cup of tea in Stone Close B&B. The Sunday service at St Andrews has finished and three of...

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Hubberholme to Dent

Dales Way – Day 3 – 22 miles My breakfast neighbours are planning the same leg as me today: the long moorland crossing of the Pennine...

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Ilkley to Grassington

Dales Way – Day 1 – 16.3 miles It had pretty much rained for four days solid in the Lakes. The valley road was flooded and moors...

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Ingleton to Settle

Pennine Journey – Day 17 – 14.25 miles I'm up early, five o'clock, eager to be on my way. I don’t share AW’s sense of impending doom as...

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Sedbergh to Ingleton

Pennine Journey - Day 16 - 17.75 miles It has long been a belief of mine that most human beings get a handful of perfect days thrown at...

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COTSWOLD WAY

Bath to Chipping Campden, 102 miles

Honeystone villages, hidden valleys and a big-vista woodland escarpment in the quintessentially English walk-in-the-countryside.

DALES WAY

Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere, 80 miles

A charming introduction to the Yorkshire and Westmorland Dales, weaving a magic riverside way from urban West Yorkshire to the shores of Windermere.

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GREAT GLEN WAY

Fort William to Inverness, 78 miles

Charmed lochs, pine forests, heather moors and the Caledonian Canal in this popular traverse of the Great Glen Fault.

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JOHN O'GROATS TRAIL

Inverness to John o'Groats, 147 miles

A walk on the wild side, steeped in history, adventure and wildlife, and visiting barely-visited beaches, dramatic cliffs and secluded fishing villages.

PENNINE JOURNEY

Settle to Settle, 247 miles

Endlessly engaging North Pennines circular following the 1938 'campaign' of Lakeland fell wanderer Alfred Wainwright.

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PENNINE WAY

Edale to Kirk Yetholm, 268 miles

Tom Stephenson's long green trail; England's finest National Trail.

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WEST HIGHLAND WAY

Milngavie to Fort William, 96 miles

Joining the crowds on the UK's busiest trail, featuring loch-side trails, ancient woodland and upland passes backed by some of Scotland's most impressive mountains.