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Steep Harrogate Ballyhaunis CAVAN LANCASHIRE Skipton York EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE Castlerea Ilkley Wetherby Inishbo‘n Claremorris Ardee Fleetwood Pocklington LONGFORD Granard mountain paths, clear read the feature Garstang Keighley Market Inishark Longford Bingley Yeadon Tadcaster Leenane Bailey Tom Photo: but very stony; exposed Colne Weighton Ballinrobe on pageKells 28 aug ‘10 Clitheroe 18 Shipley Beverley Roscommon Blackpool Nelson Leeds Selby Drogheda Kirkham Burnley Bradford Garforth high-level route; some WEST YORKSHIRE Hull Clifden Lytham St Anne's Preston Todmorden Hessle Withernsea REPUBLIC Navan Halifax Castleford Tuam WESTMEATH tricky rock steps on theLeyland Rawtenstall Brighouse Batley Goole Maam Cross he grandestBalbriggan fell of them slightly, pass through gate and Wake‘eld Pontefract Southport Hudders‘eld Mullingar Trim Skerries Corridor Route. SuitableChorley Spurn Head MEATH Rochdale Hemsworth Scunthorpe OF IRELAND all,” said Wainwright.Rush turn L at junction of paths. Standish Bury Thorne Kilkieran GALWAY “T Ormskirk Bolton 16 Cleethorpes Athlone for fit walkersFormby GREATER MANCHESTER Barnsley Grimsby Swords Wigan Brigg And here’s your chance to Follow this path, keeping Oldham SOUTH Galway Moate Malahide Penistone Doncaster Caistor Athenry Ballinasloe Stiles NoneC rosby Salford YORKSHIRE Clara Maynooth DUBLIN MERSEYSIDE MANCHESTER Oranmore Lucan Carmel Head Bootle Stocksbridge Edenderry find out if he was right. stream L. Path climbs gradually 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 At 3,209ft,Tallaght ScafellDun PikeLaoghaire is at first and then more sharply ColwynS tart/parkingWidnes She“eld Mablethorpe KILDARE Holyhead Anglesey Llandudno 14 Whaley Ballyvaughan Kilcormac Bay Wilmslow Worksop Retford Inisheer Banagher NewbridgeEngland’sNaas highest mountain, as cliffs of Great End loomBeaumaris RoadsideRhyl parking nearRuncorn Knutsford Bridge Dron‘eld Portarlington Bray Holy Island Llangefni Conwy Abergele Flint Staveley Gort Birr Kildare Frodsham Northwich Buxton Lincoln Mountmellick Monasterevin Bangor Seathwaite farm Chester‘eld Greystones CONWY Chester Middlewich Bakewell Horncastle Ingoldmells and you will be walking it ahead. Cross bridge over Bethesda FLINTSHIRE DERBYSHIRE Ollerton Winsford Congleton Mans‘eld LINCOLNSHIRE Ennistymon Portlaoise Caernarfon Llanrwst buildings,Denbigh grid ref Clay Cross Skegness Mountrath from virtual sea-level. But stream and continue on path. Mold CHESHIRE Biddulph Matlock CLARE Llanberis Betws- Ruthin Crewe NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Coningsby Roscrea LAOIS Athy WICKLOW NY235121 Leek12 Alfreton y-coed DENBIGHSHIRE Wirksworth Ripley Newark-on-Trent Ennis what a walk! The sceneryWicklow At foot of cliffs, path enters a Wrexham Nantwich Kidsgrove Burnham Nenagh Abbeyleix Nearest town Keswick Stoke-on-Trent Belper Hucknall Blaenau Ffestiniog Ruabon Newcastle- Sleaford Market Sheringham Rathdrum under-Lyme Ashbourne Ilkeston Boston ranges from lush ravines to narrow gorge and bends PoL.rthmadog Llangollen WREXHAM Nottingham Hunstanton Cromer Templemore Carlow Refreshments Whitchurch Kilkee Castlecomer Bala Uttoxeter Stapleford Beeston Grantham Sutterton North Tullow Pwllheli Criccieth Ellesmere Stone Derby Kilrush high mountain ridges via clear Cross stream, climb slightly GWYNEDD Seasonal café at Market Drayton Long Eaton Donington Walsham Happisburgh Arklow Oswestry Wem Fakenham Limerick Abersoch STAFFORDSHIRE10 Burton upon Aylsham CARLOW Trent Holbeach Thurles Seathwaite (closed Spalding paths and a serene mountain and turn LBardsey at a T-junction of StaŠord Loughborough King's Lynn Bagenalstown Island SHROPSHIRE Ballybunion Kilkenny Gorey Dolgellau Ashby-de-la-Zouch Bourne TIPPERARY Barmouth summer 2010) Rugeley Melton Mowbray NORFOLK Rathkeale LIMERICK tarn. The climax is a stunning paths. Follow this path, tending Newport Crowland KILKENNY Borris WEXFORD Mallwyd Shrewsbury East Caister-on-Sea Listowel Public toilets None Cannock Lich‘eld Coalville Oakham SwaŠham Cashel Callan Welshpool Telford LEICESTERSHIRE Stamford Dereham Norwich Newcastle West Tipperary Graiguenamanaghpanorama across the whole of R, moving round base of cliffs, Tamworth RUTLAND Wisbech Great Thomastown Public transport Leicester Yarmouth Abbeyfeale Tywyn Walsall8 Downham Watton Wymondham Enniscorthy Machynlleth Wolverhampton Oadby Kilmallock Aberdy‘ Montgomery Hinckley Blaby Uppingham Market Charleville Cahir the LakeBlackwater District and beyond. and eventually reach Esk Bus 79 (Borrowdale Peterborough Attleborough Newtown Bridgnorth Nuneaton Market Lowestoft Tralee Church West Bromwich Oundle Wimblington Clonmel New Ross Stretton Dudley Harborough Bungay Beccles Castleisland Carrick-on-Suir By Nick Hallissey. 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Ludlow Solihull COVENTRY CAMBRIDGESHIRE Halesworth Kanturk Waterford WALES Huntingdon Mildenhall Southwold Killorglin Stourport- Bromsg6 rove NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Eye 1 SeathwaiteKnighton is 1.7km Rugby Brampton Mallow WATERFORD StartRosslare on-Severn Leamington Spa Killarney Fermoy CEREDIGION Rhayader Redditch Wellingborough Rushden Warwick Waterbeach Bury St Edmunds Millstreet Tramore 3 Aberaeron furtherLlandrindod down valleyPresteigne Droitwich Daventry Saxmundham Head straight on through farm 4.5km/2¾ miles Newmarket Leiston Cahersiveen Dungarvan New Quay Tregaron Wells Leominster WARWICKSHIRE Northampton St Neots Stowmarket Valentia Island WORCESTERSHIRE SUFFOLK Aldeburgh Kington Bromyard Stratford Cambridge CORK buildings of Seathwaite. 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