The Nation's Favourite Walks and Rides
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Front cover photograph: Walking down Thorncombe Beacon, The best Trails in South West Coast Path © James Cook England and Wales Back cover photograph: © Natural England/Rob Dingle We are here to secure a healthy natural environment for people to enjoy, where wildlife is protected and England’s traditional landscapes are safeguarded for future generations. For more information go to: www.naturalengland.org.uk For more information about the work of The Pennine Way, near High Force Natural Resources Wales visit: Am ragor o wybidaeth am waith Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru ewch i’n gwefan: www.naturalresourceswales.gov.uk This publication is published by Natural England under the Open Government Licence for public sector information. You are encouraged to use, and reuse, information subject to certain conditions. The nation’s For details of the licence visit www.naturalengland.org.uk/copyright Natural England photographs are only available for non commercial purposes. If any other information favourite walks such as maps or data cannot be used commercially this will be made clear within the publication. and rides © Natural England 2013 ISBN 978-1-84754-125-9 www.nationaltrail.co.uk Catalogue Code: NE157 (v.2 2013) National Trails offer some of the best All of the National Trails are within easy walking, riding and cycling experiences in reach of buses, trains and the services of the country, officially supported by Natural nearby towns and villages. In fact nowhere England and Natural Resources Wales. in England or Wales is more than 80kms (50 miles) from a National Trail. The 15 Trails are based on the nation’s favourite rambles and rides and provide more than 4,000kms (2,500 miles) of well-managed routes across some of our finest countryside. Broadway Tower To find out more and plan your trip, please visit our website www.nationaltrail.co.uk There are also excellent guide books © Natural England/Mike Kipling available, packed with useful background information and practical tips for visitors, with full colour maps presented in © Dave McGlade sections, so the Trails can be enjoyed in a series of day trips, weekends away or longer breaks. Thixendale, Yorkshire Wolds Way Near Limestone Corner, Hadrian’s Wall Path Ditchling Beacon, South Downs Way National Trails are the best way of getting Each National Trail has dedicated staff, to know the countryside – prepare to be often working with local volunteers, to © Natural England/McCoy Wynne welcomed by local people, inspired by the look after the physical condition of the stunning, varied scenery and enchanted by Trail, keeping paths, gates, stiles and the legacy of the nation’s heritage. signs in the best condition. A picture of an acorn is used by National Trail managers to guide travellers along all the Trails. The National Trail acorn is a symbol of the commitment, made by local authority partners, to look after the Trails to the highest standards, for the enjoyment of visitors. © Natural England/Paul Glendell © Natural England/John Miller Near Oxted Sennen Cove, Cornwall Wortley Hill, Cotswold Way Contact us Pennine Bridleway National Trail Tel: +44 (0) 300 060 1840 Cleveland Way & Yorkshire Wolds Way Email: [email protected] National Trails Tel: +44 (0) 1439 772700 South Downs Way National Trail Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1273 625242 Email: [email protected] Cotswold Way National Trail Tel: +44 (0) 1451 862000 South West Coast Path National Trail Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1392 383560 Email: [email protected] Glyndwr’s Way National Trail Tel: +44 (0) 1597 827562 Thames Path & The Ridgeway National Trails Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1865 810224 Email: [email protected] Hadrian’s Wall Path National Trail Tel: +44 (0) 1434 609700 Email: [email protected] www.facebook.com/ North Downs Way National Trail thenationaltrails Tel: +44 (0) 1372 220647 Email: [email protected] @nationaltrails Winchcombe, Gloucestershire Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail Tel: +44 (0) 1597 827580 Email: [email protected] Each Trail has collated a range of Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path National Trail supporting information to complement Tel: +44 (0) 1362 869402 the official guides. This provides up Email: [email protected] to date details on services provided by local communities, such as nearby Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail © Natural England/McCoy Wynne accommodation, public transport, Tel: +44 (0) 845 345 7275 baggage transfer, guided tours and the Email: [email protected] welcoming array of tea rooms, friendly village pubs and convenient shops. Pennine Way National Trail Tel: +44 (0) 300 060 1863 Email: [email protected] Malham Cove, Pennine Way Pennine Way Hadrian’s Wall Path Cleveland Way Britain’s oldest, and arguably most It’s easy to imagine how things were Walk in the footsteps of Count famous, Trail takes walkers 16 days in Roman times. There are four Roman Dracula, explorer Captain Cook to complete but is the journey Forts presented as visitor attractions and legendary vet James Herriot. everyone should make at least once plus sections of well-preserved Visit the castles and abbeys along in a lifetime. The 429km (268 mile) Trail masonry Wall and miles of earthworks Yorkshire’s designated Heritage crosses the moors and peaks through along this 130km (84 mile) coast-to- Coast and cross England’s largest designated National Parks along the coast route. It takes walkers seven open moor – nearly all of which backbone of Northern England. days to cross the World Heritage is within the North York Moors Site from historic Tyneside west to National Park. This 177km (110 © Natural England/McCoy Wynne “The variety of habitats makes it Cumbria and the salt marsh of the © Natural England/Mike Kipling mile) Trail takes walkers nine days one of the best places in Europe to Solway Estuary. to complete. observe birds like breeding waders in spring and early summer. The “Come in the summer to see it at its “Don’t miss the coastal views scenery in Middleton in Teesdale © Natural England best; and don’t miss Birdoswald Roman between Whitby and Robin Hood’s and Dufton is fantastic and flowers Fort – it has some of the best-preserved Bay and visit the Cleveland Hills beautifully in spring.” sections of Wall – nothing feels like it’s around Osmotherley for some changed for thousands of years.” really stunning scenery.” View from Pen-y-ghent Milecastle 39 on Hadrian’s Wall Staithes © Natural England/Tessa Bunney England/Tessa Natural © © Natural England/McCoy Wyn Northumberland Coast National Trail NORTHUMBERLAND (various colours) Pennine National Park Way Area of Outstanding Newcastle Natural Beauty Hurstwood Hadrian's upon Tyne Near Fridaythorpe Wall Path Solway Coast Sunderland 0 50km Pennine Bridleway Carlisle North Yorkshire Wolds Way Pennines Designed for horse riders and cyclists as well as walkers, this 330km c Crown copyright and database right 2013. For those wanting to get away from it all – the rolling chalk (205 mile) Trail follows a mix of old packhorse and drove routes, as well as ClevelandNatural Way England OS licence no. 100022021 wolds, with large airy fields and dramatic dry valleys newly built trails. LAKE provide a perfect landscape for walkers to enjoy this Middlesbrough NORTH YORK DISTRICT 127km (79 mile) Trail over five days. “Experience the industrial heritage of the South Pennines on the 75km (47 mile) YORKSHIRE MOORS Mary Towneley Loop or get away from it all and enjoy the stunning scenery as DALES “For a sense of freedom and awesome big skies visit the Trail the Trail winds for 84kms (52 miles) through the Yorkshire Dales National Park.” Nidderdale between Fridaythorpe to Thixendale and Wharram Percy.” Arnside & Silverdale Howardian Hills Yorkshire Forest of Wolds Way Bowland Leeds Kingston upon Hull Pennine Bradford Tryner England/Andy Natural © Bridleway Anglesey Pennine Way ^ MANCHESTER Mon Liverpool Sheffield © Rob Dingle Bangor PEAK DISTRICT Clwydian Lincolnshire Wolds Near Knighton Lleyn Range Offa's Norfolk Coast Holkham ^ Dyke Path Stoke-on- Nottingham Llyn Bryniau Trent Clwyd Llwybr Offa’s Dyke Path Clawdd Cannock ENGLAND Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path SNOWDONIA Offa Chase Norwich Landscape and history changes daily as you walk along this 285km ERYRI Leicester Peddars Way Walk along the now grassy Roman road through the (177 mile) Trail on the England/Wales border following Offa’s Dyke - & Norfolk THE Brecks and open arable farmland to the coast. Enjoy Shropshire BIRMINGHAM Coast Path BROADS the giant earthwork is Britain’s longest ancient monument. Aberystwyth Hills the Trail on beaches and through dunes with extensive The Trail takes walkers 12 days to complete. PEMBROKESHIRE Northampton views across the Wash to the Lincolnshire Wolds COAST Glyndwr's^ Way Cambridge “Don’t miss the spectacular scenery as you walk around ^ Malvern Suffolk on this 150 km (93 mile) Trail. This route is perfect ARFORDIR Llwybr Glyndwr Ipswich Eglwyseg Rocks towards World’s End. The best preserved sections PENFRO Hills Milton Coast for day walks. Keynes Dedham and Heaths of the Dyke itself can be found in the South Shropshire Hills.” WALES BRECON Vale “Don’t miss the stretch between Wells and Morston BEACONS Wye Cotswold for the sheer remoteness and beauty of the coast.” BANNAU Valley Way Ridgeway BRYCHEINIOG Cotswolds Chilterns Swansea CARDIFF Pembrokeshire Abertawe CAERDYDD Thames Bristol © Natural England/John Miller Coast Path Gower Swindon