The National Trails

19 Long-Distance Routes through England, Scotland and Wales

By Paddy Dillon

ISBN

9781852847883

Availability

Published

8 Sept 2015

Reprinted

13 May 2021

Edition

Second

Pages

272

Size

24.00 x 17.00 x 1.90cm

Weight

750g

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This inspirational guidebook looks at each of the UK's 19 National Trails, with information that allows ease of comparison and contrast, inspiring you to find out more and to take up a long-distance challenge. Some Trails are short and easy, others much longer, many have strong themes - they may follow a coastline, or traverse ranges of hills.

Seasons

All trails can be walked throughout the year, though winter conditions can be challenging. Hadrian's Wall Path is best avoided in winter, as the underlying archaeology is easily damaged when the ground is soft.

Centres

Covers all 19 of the UK's official National Trails, including Hadrian's Wall, the Pennine Way and the West Highland Way.

Difficulty

The routes vary in both length and technical difficulty, the longest being the South West Coast Path and the most difficult possibly the Pennine Way.

Must See

These are Britain's best walking trails and each offers something different - from the Cotswold Way to Hadrian's Wall, they all have must-see moments.

ISBN

9781852847883

Availability

Published

8 Sept 2015

Reprinted

13 May 2021

Edition

Second

Pages

272

Size

24.00 x 17.00 x 1.90cm

Weight

750g

Overview

An inspirational larger format guidebook to Britain's National Trails - 19 long-distance walking routes through England, Wales and Scotland. Together, these routes (National Trails in England and Wales and Scotland's Great Trails) cover well over 3100 miles (5000km), exploring the rich scenic and historic countryside of Britain.

Perfect for planning, the book offers stage by stage overviews for the full breadth of the network, including the popular South West Coast Path, Hadrian's Wall Path, West Highland Way, Cotswold Way, Offa's Dyke Path, South Downs Way, Southern Upland Way and many others exploring the beauty and wild country of the British Isles.

Outline schedules for each Trail allow you compare the routes and become inspired to take up the challenge, whether on a relatively short or easy trail, or to tackle a longer, more strenuous route. Basic day-by-day route descriptions for each Trail are illustrated with maps and profiles, helping you choose the best routes to walk. Information is provided on access to and from the routes, maps, public transport, guidebooks, TICs, accommodation and useful websites.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Route Summary Table

Introduction

Wanted: A Long Green Trail
Making Trails
Trail Theme
Waymarking
Path Associations
Maps
Guidebooks
Long-distance Laughs
Websites
Accommodation
Food and Drink
Tourist Information Centres
Preparing for a Long Walk
General Fitness
Packing
Best Time of Year
Making Time
Who’s Going?
Planning
Public Transport
Daily Routine
Emergencies

England

1 South West Coast Path
2 South Downs Way
3 North Downs Way
4 The Ridgeway
5 Thames Path
6 Cotswold Way
7 Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path
8 Yorkshire Wolds Way
9 Cleveland Way
10 Pennine Bridleway
11 Pennine Way
12 Hadrian’s Wall Path

Wales

13 Pembrokeshire Coast Path
14 Offa’s Dyke Path
15 Glyndwr’s Way

Scotland

16 Southern Upland Way
17 Speyside Way
18 West Highland Way
19 Great Glen Way

APPENDIX 1 Useful Contacts
APPENDIX 2 England Coast Path

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Reviews

"A bible for serious walkers"

YHA magazine

"Paddy Dillon has walked all of Britain's National Trails at least twice and has also written five Cicerone guidebooks to six of them. so there could hardly be a more appropriate person to write this large format general book on Britain's National Trails.

This paperback book is not an actual guidebook to the National Trails (NTs) themselves, but more of a compendium, a reference book to the 19 Trails. After a 19-page general introduction. which includes some useful advice to newcomers to trail walking. the main body of the book consists of a description of the National Trails, one by one, starting with the longest. the South West Coast Path, followed by the remaining II paths in England. Then come the three National Trails in Wales and lastly the four Long Distance Routes north of the Border.

The book is attractively designed and each Trail is illustrated with a good selection of photographs. which will surely inspire both potential and seasoned NT walkers to don their boots and go. Pleasing colour sketch maps and height profiles of the routes are included. The work will appeal to National Trail Register members and others who 24 want an all·in·one reference book to the 19 NT walks. The overviews of each trail in the book should also be found useful by those walkers trying to decide which NT to choose for their next trail walking holiday. It will no doubt bring back fond memories of happy days spent walking the Trails for those readers who have already walked them."

Strider, the magazine of the Long Distance Walkers' Association

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Paddy Dillon

Paddy Dillon is a prolific walker and guidebook writer, with over 100 guidebooks to his name and contributions to 40 other titles. He has written for several outdoor magazines and other publications and has appeared on radio and television.Paddy uses a tablet computer to write as he walks. His descriptions are therefore precise, having been written at the very point at which the reader uses them.Paddy is an indefatigable long-distance walker who has walked all of Britain's National Trails and several European trails. He has also walked in Nepal, Tibet, Korea and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US. Paddy is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild and President of the Backpackers Club.

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