Treks - British Isles

This section includes guides to long-distance walking within the British Isles, including all the National Trails, plus several important regional trails and other popular routes. Moving along a route from day to day, at a pace where you become almost as one with your surroundings, allows you to have both a sense of a journey and release from the stresses of modern living.
 
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A Northern Coast to Coast Walk
This guidebook follows the Coast to Coast or C2C walk, popularised by Wainwright, which runs from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay on Yorkshire's east coast. At 178 miles (300km), this popular long-distance walking route can be easily walked within a two-week holiday. Read and see more…
The National Trails
This inspirational guidebook looks at each of the UK's 19 National Trails. Presenting the information in a way that allows ease of comparison and contrast, with practical details to help you plan your walk. Some Trails are short and easy, others much longer, many have strong themes - they may follow a coastline, or traverse ranges of hills. Read and see more…
The Great Glen Way
The Great Glen Way is an 117km (73 mile) National Trail that runs along the Caledonia Canal from Fort William to Inverness. Easily walked within a week, and accessible in all seasons, the Great Glen Way makes an ideal introduction to long-distance walking in Scotland. This handy guidebook gives a complete two-way description of the route. Read and see more…
Three Peaks, Ten Tors
Practical guidebook for anyone planning to do a long distance or challenge walk. Includes information on 15 routes from the 3 peaks (National, Yorkshire & Lancashire) to the Ten Tors with both serious and humorous approaches. Provides notes on what it takes to do a challenge walk, how to choose the challenge and much more. Read and see more…
The Reivers Way
A handy pocket sized guidebook for anyone planning to walk the Reivers Way. Follow in the footsteps of the border reivers on this 150 mile route running from Corbridge to Alnmouth. The reivers route wanders through wild and scenic parts of Northumberland, and can be walked in 9 days. The book also includes variants and alternative routes. Read and see more…
Tour of the Lake District
A guidebook to walking a scenic, seven-day circular route (93 miles) around England's Lake District. The tour gives a flavour of each of the main Lakeland valleys and their different character. High-level alternative sections and short walks also described. Read and see more…
The Lleyn Peninsula Coastal Path
Guidebook that describes a walkers' route along the 95-mile coastal path that runs around the Lleyn Peninsula of north Wales from Caernarfon to Porthmadoc. Options for mountain and road bikes along the coastal path. Also includes circular walks and rides suitable for day excursions. Read and see more…
The Dales Way
A handy guidebook for anyone planning to walk the Dales Way. This picturesque 78-mile route through the Yorkshire Dales between Ilkley and Bowness on Windermere is one of the gentlest multi-day walks in Britain. The Dales Way route is an excellent introduction to long-distance walking, and the book describes the route in both directions. Read and see more…
The Teesdale Way
Guidebook for walking the Teesdale Way, which follows the River Tees for 100 miles from its source in the Cumbrian North Pennines to its outlet at Middlesbrough on England's north-east coast. A fortnight allows time to complete the route and to explore along the way. Also outlines 10 circular walks from the route. Read and see more…
Backpacker's Britain: Northern Scotland
The guidebook covers 30 multi-day backpacking routes in northern Scotland’s highlands and islands. Routes take walkers along rugged coastlines from the Shetland Islands to the Rough Bounds of Knoydart, and across mountain ridges from northern Skye to Glen Affric. Routes of 2, 3 and 5 days. Read and see more…
The Ribble Way
The Ribble Way walk is a 71-mile long-distance trail. The route in this guidebook traces the full length of the Ribble valley and leads walkers through some of the finest scenery in northwest England. Route described from the estuary mouth, near Preston, to the river's source on Cam Fell in the Yorkshire Dales. Read and see more…
The Cleveland Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way
This handy guidebook describes two National Trails, the Cleveland Way and Yorkshire Wolds Way, along with the Tabular Hills Walk. The three routes can be joined end-to-end to create a long-distance route of over 400 km of easy and enjoyable walking in the varied Yorkshire countryside, or undertaken as shorter individual walks. Read and see more…
Scotland
A handbook covering the finest walks, scrambles, climbs and ski tours in Scotland, with its variety of wild landscapes ranging from the Southern Uplands to the great granite plateaus of the Cairngorms and jagged arêtes of the Cuillin hills on the Isle of Skye. All the information the independent mountain lover needs for any activity. Read and see more…
The Thames Path
A handy pocket sized guidebook for anyone planning to walk the Thames Path. The easy riverside route heads upstream from the Thames Barrier to the source of the Thames 180 miles away. Opened as a National Trail in 1996, you walk past London's historic buildings to the tranquil countryside at the source in Gloucestershire. Read and see more…
The Irish Coast to Coast Walk
The guidebook describes walking the 370-mile waymarked route through Ireland from Dublin in the east to Bray Head in the southwest on the Atlantic coast. Created by linking the Wicklow Way, South Leinster Way, Munster Way, Avondhy Way and the Kerry Way. An opportunity to discover the heart of the Emerald Isle. Read and see more…
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