UK LONG DISTANCE FOOTPATHS

Photo diaries of the UK's great walking trails

Daily walks

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Helmsdale to Dunbeath

John o'Groats Trail - Day 5 - 16.5 miles - 'Clearance' I'm up at 5.30 and out the door by 8. I'd vowed to get earlier starts on my final...

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Golspie to Helmsdale

John o'Groats Trail - Day 4 - 20.2 miles - 'Fishing' The day starts well. My B&B owner asks if I’m walking LeJog in my uni...

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Tain to Golspie

John o'Groats Trail - Day 3 - 23.3 miles - 'Shoreline' I wake to the cries of seagulls and gold streaked above the Dornoch firth. It has...

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Evanton to Tain

John o'Groats Trail - Day 2 - 17.4 miles - 'Countdown' With a walk as dull as today's the most you can hope for is a swift and merciful...

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Inverness to Evanton

John o'Groats Trail - Day 1 - 19.6 miles - 'Bridge' [Note that I walked the Great Glen Way as part of a longer walk from Land's End to...

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Stanton to Chipping Campden

Cotswold Way - Day 5 - 10 miles - 'Hello' “There must be something in the air,” said the cashier at Blandford Books in Broadway, with...

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Birdlip to Stanton

Cotswold Way - Day 4 - 21.4 miles - 'Race' There were nearly four seasons in a day. I started out in rain, found shelter until the sun...

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Stroud to Birdlip

Cotswold Way - Day 3 - 15.8 miles - 'Edge' The rain may have blown out, but if anything the wind was stronger as we climbed from Stroud...

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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.