How long is the England Coast Path - longer than you may think

The longest path in the UK

The England Coast Path will gobble up Britain’s other long distance paths for breakfast…

• The Wales Coast Path is 1,400km (870 miles)
• The Land’s End to John o’Groats walk is anything from 1,407km (874 miles) on roads to 1,956km (1,215 miles) by paths
• The Cambrian Way from Cardiff to Conwy is 479km (298 miles)
• The Southern Upland Way across Scotland is 344km (214 miles)
• Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk is 292km (182 miles)

It's a world-beating path

Outside the UK there are plenty of super long walking trails that are certainly wilder and more remote and arduous, from the Pacific Crest and Appalachian Trail in the USA to the Hokkaido Nature Trail in Japan; from the Grand Italian Trail the length of Italy and the Way of St James (Camino de Santiago de Compostela) in northern Spain. However, the England Coast Path will be the longest coastal walking trail anywhere in the world. The GR34 along the Brittany coast in north west France comes in at 1,700 km (1,100 miles); and the Lycian Way provides a 540 km (340 mile) trail around the south coast of Turkey, but it will be the first time EVER that a country has a coastal walking trail around its entire seaboard.

And, if you add the Wales Coastal Path, you will be able to continuously walk 5,899km or 3,665 miles around the entire coast of England and Wales from Gretna Green all the way round to Berwick upon Tweed. So how about a path around Scotland next…?