UK LONG DISTANCE FOOTPATHS

Photo diaries of the UK's great walking trails

Daily walks

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Kirkby Malham to Horton in Ribblesdale

Pennine Way - Day 6 - 19.4 miles - 'Rockin'' Mention the Three Peaks and a few years back most people would think Ben Nevis, Snowdon and...

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Cowling to Kirkby Malham

Pennine Way - Day 5 - 17.5 miles - 'Wish' You should be careful what you wish for, of course. Yesterday I said to Barrie I’d welcome a...

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Hebden Bridge to Cowling

Pennine Way - Day 4 - 17 miles - 'Brontë' Today I did something naughty. I abandoned The Pennine Way, that has guided me so faultlessly...

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Standedge to Hebden Bridge

Pennine Way - Day 3 - 17.6 miles - 'Halfway' Today is the summer equinox. As Britain swelters, winter's approaching. It’s also – near as...

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Crowden (Old House) to Standedge

Pennine Way - Day 2 - 14 miles - 'Bleak' The A62 is a trans-Pennine highway that links Manchester and Leeds. Before the M62 was built it...

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Edale to Crowden (Old House)

Pennine Way - Day 1 - 17.3 miles - 'Kinder' [Note that I walked the Great Glen Way as part of a longer walk from Land's End to John...

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Wick to John o'Groats

John o'Groats Trail - Day 7 - 22.3 miles - 'The End' I did it. At just after 3pm I rounded Duncansby Head – the furthest point on the...

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Dunbeath to Wick

John o'Groats Trail - Day 6 - 25.1 miles - 'Near' If ever there was a walk of two halves, this was surely it. For the first 13 miles I...

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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.