UK LONG DISTANCE FOOTPATHS

Photo diaries of the UK's great walking trails

Daily walks

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Garsdale Head to Sedbergh

Pennine Journey – Day 15 – 13.75 miles 9.30am and I'm on the road. The sun’s already high, sky blue but for mare’s tail wisps unfurling...

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Brough Sowerby to Garsdale Head

Pennine Journey – Day 14 – 14.5 miles I've barely walked a quarter mile from my Brough Sowerby lodgings when I'm forced to stop. The...

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Appleby-in-Westmorland to Brough Sowerby

Pennine Journey – Day 13 – 11.25 miles I wake to clear skies again, dawn light creeping lazy over the slate rooftops of Appleby, coos of...

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Dufton to Appleby-in-Westmorland

Pennine Journey – Day 12 – 5 miles There’s only so much the map can tell you. On Day 7 what looked on the OS to be a delightful riverside...

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Alston to Dufton

Pennine Journey – Day 11 – 20 miles 148 miles in and today was the day I felt like I'd finally found my stride. The shift from walking...

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Greenhead to Alston

Pennine Journey - Day 10 - 15.4 miles I wake to sunshine streaming through the curtains. It’s the first time I've seen morning sun since...

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Twice Brewed to Greenhead

Pennine Journey – Day 9 – 7.4 miles What a difference a day makes. When I limped into the Twice Brwed Inn last night I was knackered,...

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Hexham to Twice Brewed

Pennine Journey – Day 8 – 18 miles If you were to draw a line graph of today’s walk with the 'X' axis marking enjoyment and 'Y' hours...

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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.