Fetler Yell North Roe Shetland Islands Muckle Roe Brae Voe Mainland
Foula Lerwick
Sumburgh
Fair Isle
Westray Sanday Rousay
Stronsay Mainland Orkney Islands Kirkwall Shapinsay Scarpa Flow Hoy South Ronaldsay
Cape Island of Stroma Wrath Scrabster John O'Groats Castletown Durness Thurso Port of Ness Melvich Borgh Bettyhill Cellar Watten Noss Head Head Tongue Wick Forsinard Gallan Isle of Lewis Head Port nan Giuran Stornoway Latheron Unapool Altnaharra Kinbrace WESTERN ISLES Lochinver Scarp Helmsdale Hushinish Point Airidh a Bhruaich Lairg Taransay Tarbert Shiant Islands Greenstone Point Scalpay Ullapool Bonar Bridge Harris Rudha Reidh Pabbay Dornoch Tarbat Berneray Dundonnell Ness Port nan Long Tain Gairloch Lossiemouth North Uist Invergordon Lochmaddy Alness Cullen Cromarty Macdu Fraserburgh Monach Islands Ban Uig Rona Elgin Buckie Baleshare Kinlochewe Garve Dingwall Achnasheen Forres Benbecula Ronay Nairn Baile Mhanaich Torridon MORAY Keith Dunvegan Turri Peterhead Portree Inverness Aberlour Geirinis Raasay Lochcarron Huntly Du town Rudha Stromeferry Ellon Hallagro Kyle of Cannich Lochalsh Drumnadrochit Rhynie Oldmeldrum South Uist Isle of Skye Dornie Kyleakin HIGHLAND Grantown-on- Spey Inverurie Lochboisdale Invermoriston Alford Shiel Bridge Aviemore
Canna Airor ABERDEENSHIRE Aberdeen Barra Ardvasar Inverie Invergarry Kingussie Heaval Castlebay Rum Newtonmore Vatersay Mallaig Banchory Laggan Braemar Ballater Sandray Rosinish Eigg Arisaig Glen nnan Dalwhinnie Stonehaven Mingulay Spean Bridge Berneray Muck Fort William SCOTLAND ANGUS Oinch Coll Ballachulish Glencoe Pitlochry Brechin Montrose Tobermory PERTH AND KINROSS Kirriemuir Forfar Lochaline Portnacroish Aberfeldy Blairgowrie Tiree Dunkeld Coupar Angus Arbroath Ulva Craignure Connel Carnoustie Killin Isle of Mull Moni eth Dundee Tayport Iona Oban Dalmally Crianlarich Lochearnhead Newport Fionnphort Crie Perth -on-Tay Bridge of Earn Cupar St Andrews Luing Ardlui STIRLING Auchterarder Auchtermuchty Inveraray Ladybank Callander Falkland Fife Ness Scarba Tarbet FIFE Strachur Kinross Dunblane Elie Colonsay Lochgoilhead Bridge of Allan CLACKMANNAN Glenrothes Buckhaven Stirling Lochgilphead Garelochhead Alloa Kirkcaldy Ardlussa Cowdenbeath Oronsay Dunfermline North Berwick Grangemouth ARGYLL & BUTE Helensburgh Denny Inverkeithing EAST Dunbar Dunoon Gourock Alexandria Kilsyth Falkirk FALKIRK South Queensferry Jura Linlithgow Edinburgh LOTHIAN Greenock Dumbarton Kirkintilloch Cumbernauld Haddington Tighnabruaich INVERCLYDE NORTH Musselburgh Clydebank Bathgate St Abb's Head Port Askaig Tarbert LANARKSHIRE Livingston Dalkeith RENFREWSHIRE Airdrie Kennacraig Rothesay Paisley WEST Bonnyrigg Eyemouth Glasgow Shotts LOTHIAN Largs Johnstone Penicuik Islay Motherwell MIDLOTHIAN Rhinns Point Millport Hamilton East Kilbride EAST Carluke Berwick-upon-Tweed Gigha RENFREWSHIRE NORTH AYRSHIRE Larkhall Lauder Primmill Kilwinning Strathaven Holy Island Port Ellen Killean Ardrossan Lanark Peebles Lesmahagow Coldstream Irvine Kilmarnock Biggar Galashiels Brodick Kelso Arran SOUTH Bamburgh Holy Troon LANARKSHIRE Mauchline Selkirk Malin Head Isle Prestwick Ayr Abington Campbeltown BORDERS Jedburgh Tory Island Cumnock EAST New Cumnock Hawick Alnwick Rathlin Island AYRSHIRE Bloody Horn Head Inishowen Mull of Kintyre Maybole Foreland Carndonagh Head Dalmellington Mo at NORTHUMBERLAND Amble Moville Portrush Portstewart Ballycastle Girvan SOUTH Buncrana Bushmills AYRSHIRE Coleraine DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Otterburn Ashington Morpeth Newbiggin- Aran Island Limavady Ballymoney Catsphairn by-the-Sea Cushendall Lochmaben Lockerbie Langholm Londonderry Ballantrae Bedlington Blyth Letterkenny LONDONDERRY New Dumfries ANTRIM Ponteland Dungiven Galloway Whitley Bay DONEGAL Cairnryan Longtown Gosforth South Shields Annan NORTHERN Newton Stewart Gretna Hexham Corbridge Newcastle upon Tyne Strabane Ballymena Castle Douglas Jarrow Ballybofey Maghera Stranraer Dalbeattie Brampton Gateshead Rossan Point Larne Sunderland Portpatrick Carlisle Washington Magherafelt Kirkcudbright Consett Stanley Castlederg Randalstown Wigton Killybegs Newtownstewart Whitehead Donegal Moneymore Antrim Carrickfergus Whithorn Alston Durham St John's Point TYRONE Brandon Peterlee Bangor Maryport Omagh Cookstown Drummore Donaghadee Burrow Spennymoor Ballyshannon Crumlin Holywood Head Penrith Hartlepool IRELAND Workington Cockermouth Bishop Auckland Bundoran Belfast Newtownards Appleby-in- Dungannon Carrydu Comber Keswick Westmorland Newton Redcar Lisburn Aycli e Whitehaven CUMBRIA DURHAM Middlesbrough Balderg FERMANAGH Craigavon Lurgan Guisborough Dromore Brough Darlington Whitby Belmullet Easky Egremont Enniskillen Portadown Ballynahinch Killyleagh Stokesley Sligo Armagh Portaferry Ambleside Scotch Corner Robin Hood’s Bay Tandragee Banbridge Richmond Lisnaskea Andreas Windermere DOWN Downpatrick Coniston Monaghan ARMAGH Catterick Keady Ballaugh Ramsey Kendal Sedbergh Northallerton Ballycroy Ballina LEITRIM Castlewellan Leyburn Scalby SLIGO Newtownbutler Rathfriland Hawes Scarborough Clones MONAGHAN ISLE OF MAN MAYO Newry Newcastle Achill Peel Laxey Thirsk Pickering Ballybay Millom Ulverston Filey Island Castleblayney Kirkby Lonsdale NORTH YORKSHIRE Cootehill Warrenpoint Douglas Boyle Crossmaglen Grange-over- Ingleton Swinford Kilkeel Sands Ripon Malton Flamborough Port Erin Barrow-in-Furness Carnforth Easingwold Head Carrick-on-Shannon Cavan Castletown Bridlington Clare Castlebar Ballaghaderreen Carrickmacross Dundalk Walney Morecambe Settle Island Lancaster Westport Isle Heysham Dri eld Bailieborough MIDLANDS ROSCOMMON Knaresborough Inishturk LOUTH Harrogate Ballyhaunis CAVAN LANCASHIRE Skipton York EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE Castlerea Ilkley Wetherby Inishbo n Claremorris Ardee Fleetwood Pocklington LONGFORD Granard DERBYSHIRE Garstang Keighley Market Inishark Longford Bingley Yeadon Tadcaster Leenane Colne Weighton Ballinrobe Kells Clitheroe Shipley Beverley Roscommon ROBIN HOOD’S STRIDEBlackpool Nelson Leeds Selby Drogheda Kirkham Burnley Bradford Garforth WEST YORKSHIRE Hull Clifden Lytham St Anne's Preston Todmorden Hessle Withernsea REPUBLIC Navan Halifax Castleford Tuam WESTMEATH Leyland Rawtenstall Brighouse Batley Goole Maam Cross Balbriggan uDistance: 9.5km/6 miles uTime: 3½ hours uGrade: Moderate Wake eld Pontefract Trim Skerries Southport Chorley Hudders eld Mullingar Rochdale Spurn Head OF IRELAND MEATH Hemsworth Thorne Scunthorpe Kilkieran GALWAY Rush Ormskirk Standish Bolton Bury Cleethorpes Athlone Formby GREATER MANCHESTER Grimsby Swords Barnsley Brigg Wigan Oldham SOUTH Galway Moate Malahide Children will love climbing Penistone Doncaster Caistor Athenry Ballinasloe Crosby Salford PLAN YOUR WALK YORKSHIRE Clara Maynooth DUBLIN MERSEYSIDE MANCHESTER Oranmore Lucan Carmel Head Bootle Stocksbridge Edenderry the rocks – just take care! St Helens Sale Stockport Glossop Celbridge Wallasey Rotherham Bawtry OFFALY Tullamore Clondalkin Dublin Great Liverpool Warrington Gainsborough Inishmore Moelfre Birkenhead Cheadle Market Loughrea Gogarth Orme Prestatyn Altrincham Rasen Louth Tallaght Dun Laoghaire Colwyn Widnes She eld Mablethorpe KILDARE Holyhead Anglesey Llandudno Wilmslow Whaley Ballyvaughan Banagher Kilcormac Bay Worksop Retford Inisheer Newbridge Naas Beaumaris Rhyl Runcorn Knutsford Bridge Dron eld Portarlington Bray Holy Island Llangefni Conwy Abergele Flint Staveley Gort Birr Kildare Frodsham Northwich Buxton Lincoln Mountmellick Monasterevin Bangor Chester eld Greystones CONWY Chester Middlewich Bakewell Horncastle Ingoldmells Bethesda FLINTSHIRE DERBYSHIRE Ollerton Winsford Congleton Mans eld LINCOLNSHIRE Ennistymon Portlaoise Caernarfon Llanrwst Denbigh Clay Cross Skegness Mountrath Mold CHESHIRE Biddulph Matlock CLARE Llanberis Betws- Ruthin Crewe NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Coningsby Roscrea LAOIS Athy WICKLOW Leek Alfreton y-coed DENBIGHSHIRE Wirksworth Ripley Newark-on-Trent Ennis Wicklow Wrexham Nantwich Kidsgrove Burnham Abbeyleix Stoke-on-Trent Belper Hucknall Nenagh Newcastle- Sleaford Market Rathdrum Blaenau Ffestiniog Ruabon Ashbourne Boston Sheringham WREXHAM under-Lyme Ilkeston Porthmadog Llangollen Nottingham Hunstanton Cromer Templemore Carlow Whitchurch Kilkee Castlecomer Bala Uttoxeter Stapleford Beeston Grantham Sutterton North Tullow Pwllheli Criccieth Ellesmere Stone Derby Kilrush Market Drayton Long Eaton Donington Walsham Happisburgh Arklow GWYNEDD Oswestry Fakenham Limerick Abersoch Wem STAFFORDSHIREROUTE Burton upon Aylsham CARLOW Trent Holbeach Thurles Spalding Bardsey Sta ordStart/parking Car park atLoughborough King's Lynn Bagenalstown Island SHROPSHIRE Ballybunion Kilkenny Gorey Dolgellau Ashby-de-la-Zouch Bourne TIPPERARY Barmouth ColdwellRugeley End, Youlgreave. Melton Mowbray NORFOLK Rathkeale LIMERICK Newport Crowland KILKENNY Borris WEXFORD Mallwyd Shrewsbury Start by church, grid ref East Caister-on-Sea Listowel Cannock Lich eld Coalville Oakham Swa ham Cashel Callan Welshpool Telford LEICESTERSHIRE Stamford Dereham Norwich Newcastle West Tipperary Graiguenamanagh SK213644Tamwo rth RUTLAND Wisbech Great Thomastown Leicester Abbeyfeale Tywyn Is Walsallit for me? Good paths, Downham Watton Wymondham Yarmouth Enniscorthy Machynlleth WolverhamptonPhoto: Tom Bailey Oadby Kilmallock Aberdy Montgomery Hinckley Blaby Uppingham Market Charleville Cahir Blackwater but can be muddy in places. Peterborough Attleborough Newtown Bridgnorth Nuneaton Market Lowestoft Tralee Church West BromwichLivestock in fields so dogs Oundle Wimblington Clonmel New Ross Stretton Dudley Harborough Bungay Beccles Castleisland Carrick-on-Suir POWYS Birmingham Corby Chatteris Llanidloes Stourbridge on leads. Chance forBedworth Littleport Brandon Thetford Mitchelstown Aberystwyth WEST MIDLANDS Rothwell Sawtry Diss Dingle Wexford Llangurig Clun Kidderminster Kettering Ely KERRY Ludlow low-levelSolihull scramblingCOVENTRY on CAMBRIDGESHIRE Halesworth Kanturk Waterford Huntingdon Mildenhall Southwold Killorglin WALES Stourport- BromsgrRobinove Hood’s Stride NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Eye Knighton Rugby Brampton Mallow WATERFORD Rosslare on-Severn Leamington Spa Killarney Fermoy CEREDIGION Rhayader RedditchStiles Lots Wellingborough Rushden Warwick Waterbeach Bury St Edmunds Millstreet Tramore Aberaeron Llandrindod Presteigne Droitwich Daventry Saxmundham Newmarket Leiston Cahersiveen Dungarvan New Quay Tregaron Wells Leominster WARWICKSHIRE Northampton St Neots Stowmarket Valentia Island ew places in the Peaks Mawstone Lane. Cross stream passing a telegraph pole, you WORCESTERSHIRE SUFFOLK Aldeburgh Kington Bromyard PLANNINGStratford Cambridge CORK Worcester upon Avon Bedford come with more adventure and continue to first small arrive at metal gate on L. Nearest town Bakewell Stradishall Woodbridge Kenmare Builth Wells HEREFORDSHIRE Pershore Towcester Macroom Youghal Strumble Cardigan Lampeter Shipston- Newport Pagnell Biggleswade Ipswich Cork Midleton and romance for children stone barn on L. Great Malvern Refreshmentson-Stour Sudbury F Head Hay-on-Wye Evesham Milton Keynes BEDFORDSHIRE Royston Newcastle Pubs in Youlgreave Caherdaniel than Robin Hood’s Stride. With 2km/1¼ miles Hereford Ledbury Banbury Brackley Sa ron Cobh Cloyne Fishguard Emlyn Llandovery Mathry PublicTewkesbury toilets NoneMoreton-in-Marsh Baldock Walden Felixstowe its fists of gritstone thrusting 0.5km/¼ mile Go through gate following Buckingham Leighton Letchworth Halstead Harwich 3 Hitchin Manningtree Brecon Dunmanway St David's CARMARTHENSHIRE PublicStow-on-the-Wold transport Chipping Norton Buzzard Stevenage Bantry Bandon above theRamsey surrounding PEMBROKESHIRE hills, it is Immediately after small barn ‘Limestone Way’ and continueRoss-on-W ye Colchester 2 Carmarthen Llandeilo Bicester Braintree Kinsale Bus from Bakewell Dursey Island Bear Island Island Newgate Cheltenham Dunstable Luton Stansted ESSEX perfect for a beginner scramble. go L on ‘Limestone Way’. Cross Crickhowellinto woods on clear path to road.Gloucester BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE Haverfordwest St Clears Abergavenny Maps OS Explorer OL24;Kidlington Clonakilty GLOUCESTERSHIRE Tring Ware Witham Brightlingsea Clacton-on-Sea Skomer Narberth Ammanford Brynmawr Monmouth Witney Aylesbury Links with the legendaryMilford outlaw field to gate, then head L in nextMe rthyr Ebbw Landranger 119 St Albans Skibbereen Island Haven Vale Wendover Harlow Kidwelly Tyd l Blaenavon Carterton Oxford Chelmsford are lost to time, but that needn’tNeyland field gradually moving awayNEATH from MERTHYR2.6km/1½BLAENAU GWENT MONMOUTHSHIRE miles Stroud Hemel Hat eld Skokholm PORT TALBOT Aberdare TYDFIL Pontypool Lydney Cirencester OXFORDSHIRE Thame Hempstead Maldon Island Pembroke Tenby Llanelli Southminster Glyncorrwg TORFAEN Nailsworth Buy maps at: www. Amersham stop you spinning a yarn or two wall on L. Go through gap in wall, RHONDDA BargoedTurn R to walk uphill for Abingdon Watford Barnet Clear Island CYNON TAFF4 Chepstow Faringdon En eld Brentwood Neath Swansea CAERPHILLY Cwmbran ordnance survey.co.uk/ Rayleigh as you picnic up on topSt Govan's– do head down R to field corner,Maesteg and 300m before taking path on Tetbury Cricklade Didcot High Wycombe Chigwell SWANSEA Port Pontypridd Risca Newport Wantage Harrow Head Caldicot mapshop Wallingford Marlow Basildon Port Einon Talbot Malmesbury Uxbridge GREATER LONDON Southend-on-Sea mind the steep drops, however. with wall on L go ahead to next L oppositeCaerphilly entranceNEWPORT to Harthill Henley BRIDGEND Swindon Maidenhead Canvey Island CARDIFF Avonmouth Slough LONDON There is a mysterious hermit’s field boundary. HeadPo diagonallyrthcawl BridgendMoor Farm. Follow path ahead Woolwich Tilbury Cardi BRISTOL BERKSHIRE Windsor Dartford Sheerness Cowbridge Chippenham Reading Richmond Gravesend Margate cave to ferret for nearby, too. R towards hedge and keep on VALE OF GLAMORGANwith Robin Hood’s Stride visibleBristol church. In 50m take L fork on Staines Clevedon Corsham Avebury Hungerford Rochester Barry Marlborough Newbury Bracknell Kingston in same direction, past pointless ahead, R, Congresburythen in 200m pass Bath Melkshamfootpath signed to ‘Youlgreave’. Sutton Chatham Ramsgate Croydon Sittingbourne Weston-super-Mare Devizes Woking Epsom Start stile, and on towards two large through step-stile onto Open Ignore track as it turns sharpKingsclere R, Camberley Maidstone Faversham Sandwich Trowbridge WILTSHIRE Leatherhead Caterham With All Saints Church on your trees and three small stone Access land, with theCheddar Stride Basingstoke Sevenoaks Canterbury 1 andWestbury instead go straight ahead Aldershot Reigate Oxted KENT Deal Lynton Burnham-on-Sea Dorking Ilfracombe Lynmouth Frome Andover Whitchurch Guildford Redhill Tonbridge left, go down Bradford Road Lundy posts. At posts take track L as Mineheadimmediately above Wellsyou to R. throughWarminster gate. Turn L and at far Farnham SURREY East Ashford Dover Watchet Pilton HAMPSHIRE Godalming and follow as it swings R on to it skirts hill, and shortly after Explore it thenGlastonbury return to gate side of hedgeAmesbury go R signed Alton Grinstead Braunton Crawley Cranbrook Folkestone Bridgwater Street New Alresford Tunbridge Wells Barnstaple and follow path east to a track Mere‘Youlgreave via Cliff Farm’. Path Haslemere Tenterden Hythe Wilton Winchester Liphook Horsham Crowborough Wincanton New Romney Bideford South Molton betweenTaunton wallSOMERSET and fence. Divert descends thenSalisbury climbs again Billingshurst Haywards Heath Hartland Shaftesbury Peters eld Wellingtonhere to explore Hermit’s Cave, or Romsey Heath eld Rye Great Torrington diagonally R after first wall gapEastleigh Midhurst Pulborough Uck eld Ilminster Yeovil Sherborne EAST SUSSEX Battle Dungeness continue on track south to reach Southampton WEST SUSSEX Hurstpierpoint Tiverton to gate, then aim to L of woods Crewkerne Lyndhurst Havant Arundel START Chard Blandford Forum Fareham Chichester Lewes Hailsham Hastings 1 Bude crossroads of tracks and roads. on browRingwood of hill. Cross straightHythe Worthing Hove Bexhill Holsworthy Brockenhurst Gosport Newhaven Crediton Honiton Axminster Wimborneover Minster road, through copse, to stile Bognor Brighton Lymington Regis Littlehampton Eastbourne Okehampton Bridport DORSET New Milton Portsmouth Seaford 2 Exeter 4km/2½Seaton miles Dorchester ahead. Keep walking uphill toCowes Boscastle Poole Newport Ryde Selsey Lyme Bournemouth Tintagel DEVON SidmouthGo ahead along quiet Warehamwooden stile in barbed wire toISLE Launceston 5 Regis Freshwater OF WIGHT ExmouthDudwood Lane (still on WeymouthR of drinkingSwanage trough. Cross farm Shanklin Dawlish Ventnor Padstow Wadebridge Tavistock TeignmouthLimestone Way) to walk uphill Fortuneswelltrack and keep ahead, copse on Ashburton Newton Abbot Bodmin Buckfastleigh for 500m. Shortly after smallPortland Bill L, through stone wall and ahead Liskeard Torquay Newquay CORNWALL Saltash Totnes Paigntonbarn on L, go R on path towards (north) across field to next wall, Plymouth St Austell Looe Torpoint BrixhamElton. Follow path across field Tomlinson Wood ahead. Skirt to Plympton Dartmouth St Agnes Fowey 4 and then line of telegraph poles L of woods keeping wall R. Truro Kingsbridge Redruth 3 into village. Path leads R of new St Ives Salcombe At gap in wall go through and Camborne St Mawes house; then cross drive into follow line of telegraph poles St Just Falmouth Penzance churchyard and on to main street. (ignoring path to Middleton). Sennen Helston Land's End The path leads you back to Lizard 5.4km/3½ miles Point 3, from where you retrace Scilly Isles 6Go R opposite pub and take steps back to Youlgreave. Well Street to immediate L of Jonathan Manning 5 “With its fists of gritstone thrusting above the surrounding
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