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 STIRLINGSouth Uist Isle of Skye Lochalsh Drumnadrochit Rhynie Oldmeldrum Dornie Kyleakin HIGHLAND Grantown-on- Spey Inverurie Lochboisdale Invermoriston Alford Shiel Bridge BEN LOMOND Aviemore 24 Canna Aberdeen Airor ABERDEENSHIRE Barra Ardvasar Inverie Invergarry Kingussie Heaval Castlebay Rum Newtonmore Vatersay Mallaig Banchory Laggan Braemar Ballater 10.5 Distance Sandray Time Grade Refreshments Rosinish 10.5km/6½ miles 6 hours Eigg ChallengingArisaig Glen nnan 3 pubs/0Dalwhinnie cafés Stonehaven Mingulay Spean Bridge Berneray Muck Fort William SCOTLAND ANGUS Onich Coll Ben Lomond is Ballachulish Glencoe Pitlochry Brechin Montrose Tobermory PERTH AND KINROSS Kirriemuir Forfar Scotland’s most PLAN YOUR Aberfeldy Lochaline Portnacroish Blairgowrie Tiree southerly Munro. Dunkeld ROUTE 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 SCOTLAND 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 Tighnabruaich Greenock Dumbarton Kirkintilloch Cumbernauld Haddington INVERCLYDE NORTH Bathgate Musselburgh St Abb's Head Port Askaig Tarbert Clydebank LANARKSHIRE RENFREWSHIRE Livingston Dalkeith Rothesay Airdrie WEST Kennacraig Paisley Shotts Bonnyrigg Eyemouth Johnstone Glasgow LOTHIAN Penicuik Largs 20 Islay Motherwell MIDLOTHIAN Rhinns Point MillpoROUTErt Hamilton East Kilbride EAST Carluke Berwick-upon-Tweed Gigha RENFREWSHIRE NORTHIs AYRSHIRE it for me? Steep, Larkhall Lauder Primmill Kilwinning Strathaven Holy Island Port Ellen Killean Ardrossan Lanark Peebles exciting climb, Lesmahagow Coldstream DAY TWO: DOWNLOAD ‘BEN A’AN’ AT Irvine Kilmarnock Biggar Galashiels Brodick Kelso Mary Welsh Photo: Mary Arran combined with some SOUTH Bamburgh WWW.LFTO.COM/COUNTRYWALKING 18 Holy Troon LANARKSHIRE Mauchline Selkirk Malin Head fineIsle ridgePrestwick walking. Ayr Abington Campbeltown Cumnock BORDERS Jedburgh enTory IslandLomond is the most woodland. Beyond gate climb The paths are good EAST New Cumnock Hawick Alnwick Rathlin Island Stiles None AYRSHIRE Bloody southerlyHorn Head Munro, and Inishowenthrough scattered trees.Mull of KintyreBy old Maybole ForelandB Carndonagh Head Dalmellington Mo at 16 Amble NORTHUMBERLAND Moville Portrush stands in an isolated position, Portstewartsheepfold goBallycastle through gate and Girvan SOUTH Buncrana Bushmills START/PARKINGAYRSHIRE Coleraine DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Otterburn Ashington dominating the view on the follow path zig-zagging steeply Large car park at Morpeth Newbiggin- Aran Island Limavady Ballymoney Carsphairn by-the-Sea Cushendall Lochmaben Lockerbie Langholm east side of Loch Lomond.Londonderry It is uphill beside burn. Where path Ballantrae Rowardennan (B837 Bedlington Blyth
Letterkenny 14 LONDONDERRY New Dumfries ANTRIM Ponteland Glasgow’s own mountain andDungiven heads away from burn, cross from Drymen), grid refGalloway Whitley Bay DONEGAL Cairnryan Longtown Gosforth South Shields Annan NORTHERN NS360987Newton Stewa rt Gretna Hexham Corbridge Newcastle upon Tyne therefore very Strabanepopular; the hillside belowBallymena line of broken Castle Douglas Jarrow Ballybofey Maghera Stranraer Dalbeattie Brampton Gateshead Rossan Point Larne Nearest town Sunderland tourist route by which this crags, then curve up towards Portpatrick Carlisle Washington Magherafelt Kirkcudbright Consett Stanley Castlederg Randalstown Dumbarton 12 Wigton Killybegs Newtownstewart Whitehead Donegal Moneymore walk descends can be very ridge. Cross Antrimanother fence.Carrickfergus RefreshmentsWhithorn Tarbet, Alston Durham St John's Point TYRONE Brandon Peterlee Bangor Maryport Omagh Cookstown Drummore busy especially at weekends Carry on up ridge, Tom Fithich,Donaghadee Luss and RowardennanBurrow Spennymoor Ballyshannon Crumlin Holywood Head Penrith Hartlepool IRELAND Workington Cockermouth Bishop Auckland Bundoranand holidays. The Ptarmigan and enjoy views.Belfast Newtownards hotels Appleby-in- Carrydu Comber Keswick Westmorland Newton Redcar
Dungannon 10 Lisburn Aycli e route is much quieter. Public toilets At start Whitehaven CUMBRIA DURHAM Middlesbrough Balderg FERMANAGH Craigavon Lurgan Guisborough Dromore Brough Darlington Whitby Belmullet Easky 2 Public transport No Egremont By Mary Welsh.Enniskillen 4km/2½Portadown milesBallynahinch Killyleagh Stokesley Sligo Armagh Portaferry public transport beyond Ambleside Scotch Corner Robin Hood’s Bay Tandragee Banbridge Richmond Lisnaskea Head on narrowing ridgeDownpatrick to Andreas Windermere ARMAGH DOWN Balmaha. Ferry runs Coniston Catterick
Monaghan 8 Keady Ballaugh Ramsey Kendal Sedbergh Northallerton Ballycroy Ballina 1 LEITRIM Castlewellan Leyburn Scalby SLIGO Start Newtownbutler subsidiaryRathfriland top, Ptarmigan. from Apr to Sep Hawes Scarborough Clones MONAGHAN ISLE OF MAN MAYO Newry Newcastle Achill Peel Laxey Thirsk Pickering Walk north from car park toBallybay Descend to col. Then begin from Inverbeg to Millom Ulverston Filey Island Castleblayney Kirkby Lonsdale NORTH YORKSHIRE Cootehill Warrenpoint Douglas Boyle Crossmaglen Rowardennan. Grange-over- Ingleton Swinford sculpture on shore of Loch steep, scramblyKilkeel pull to Ben Sands Ripon Malton Flamborough Port Erin Barrow-in-Furness Carnforth Easingwold Head Carrick-on-Shannon Cavan For info tel:Castletown Traveline 6 Bridlington Clare Castlebar BallaghaderreenLomond. Continue on followingCarrickmacross Lomond’sDundalk summit. Walney Morecambe Settle Island Lancaster Westport Bailieborough Isle Heysham Dri eld ROSCOMMON 0871 200 2233 Knaresborough Inishturk West Highland Way (WHW) LOUTH Harrogate Ballyhaunis CAVAN LANCASHIRE Skipton York EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE Castlerea Ilkley Wetherby Inishbo n Claremorris 3 Ardee Fleetwood Pocklington signs. TakeLONGFORD R forkGranard at Y-junction 5.5km/3½ miles MAPS Garstang Market Inishark Keighley Bingley Yeadon Tadcaster
Longford 4 Leenane Colne Weighton Ballinrobe and, beyond gate, go on Kells Leave south-east, on distinct Ordnance Survey Clitheroe Shipley Beverley Roscommon Blackpool Nelson Leeds Selby Drogheda Kirkham Burnley Bradford Garforth WEST YORKSHIRE Hull Clifden through deciduous woodland. path, along ridge. In 500m veer Explorer 364; Lytham St Anne's Preston Todmorden Hessle Withernsea REPUBLIC Navan Halifax Castleford Tuam WESTMEATH Leyland Rawtenstall Brighouse Batley Goole Maam Cross Ignore track to Ardess. Press awayBalbriggan from edge of Coire Landranger 56 Wake eld Pontefract Trim Skerries Southport Chorley Hudders eld Mullingar Rochdale Spurn Head OF IRELAND MEATH 2 Hemsworth Thorne Scunthorpe Kilkieran GALWAY on, cross bridge, carry on past a’Bhathaich andRush go down steep Ormskirk Standish Bolton Bury Cleethorpes Athlone Formby GREATER MANCHESTER Grimsby Swords Barnsley Brigg Wigan Oldham SOUTH Galway NTS RangerMoate Centre, then white spur. ContinueMalahide long, gradual Penistone Doncaster Caistor Athenry Ballinasloe Crosby Salford YORKSHIRE Clara Maynooth DUBLIN MERSEYSIDE MANCHESTER Oranmore Lucan Carmel Head Bootle Stocksbridge Edenderry St Helens Sale Stockport Glossop cottage, to cross another burn. Celbridgedescent Dublinfor 2.5km along top of Wallasey Rotherham Bawtry OFFALY Tullamore Clondalkin Great Liverpool Warrington Gainsborough Market Inishmore Loughrea Moelfre Orme Birkenhead Cheadle Louth Dun Laoghaire Gogarth Prestatyn 0 Widnes Altrincham She eld Rasen Mablethorpe Take narrow path on R, which broadTallaght spur, Sron Aonaich. Colwyn 0 KILDARE Holyhead Anglesey Llandudno Wilmslow Whaley Worksop Retford
Ballyvaughan Bay km
Kilcormac 200 400 600 Banagher 800 Inisheer Newbridge Naas Beaumaris Rhylmetres Runcorn Knutsford Bridge Dron eld leaves WHW, andPortarlington go up through 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 Nenagh Abbeyleix Stoke-on-Trent Belper Hucknall Blaenau Ffestiniog Ruabon Newcastle- Sleaford Market Sheringham Rathdrum under-Lyme Ashbourne Ilkeston Boston Porthmadog Llangollen WREXHAM 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 STAFFORDSHIRE Burton upon Aylsham CARLOW Trent Holbeach Thurles Spalding Bardsey Sta ord Loughborough King's Lynn Bagenalstown Island SHROPSHIRE Ballybunion Kilkenny Gorey Dolgellau Ashby-de-la-Zouch Bourne TIPPERARY Barmouth Rugeley Melton Mowbray NORFOLK Rathkeale LIMERICK Newport Crowland KILKENNY Borris WEXFORD Mallwyd Shrewsbury East Caister-on-Sea Listowel Cannock Lich eld Coalville Oakham Swa ham Cashel Callan Welshpool Telford LEICESTERSHIRE Stamford Dereham Norwich Newcastle West Tipperary Graiguenamanagh Tamworth RUTLAND Wisbech Great Thomastown Leicester Abbeyfeale Tywyn Walsall Downham Watton Wymondham Yarmouth Enniscorthy Machynlleth Wolverhampton Oadby Kilmallock Aberdy Montgomery Hinckley Blaby Uppingham Market Charleville Cahir Blackwater 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 POWYS Birmingham Corby Chatteris Llanidloes Stourbridge Bedworth Littleport Brandon Thetford Mitchelstown Aberystwyth WEST MIDLANDS Rothwell Sawtry Diss Dingle Wexford Llangurig Clun Kidderminster Kettering Ely KERRY Ludlow Solihull COVENTRY CAMBRIDGESHIRE Halesworth Kanturk Waterford Huntingdon Mildenhall Southwold Killorglin WALES Stourport- Bromsgrove NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Eye Knighton Rugby Brampton Mallow WATERFORD Rosslare on-Severn Leamington Spa Killarney Fermoy CEREDIGION Rhayader Redditch 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 WORCESTERSHIRE SUFFOLK Aldeburgh Kington Bromyard Stratford Cambridge CORK Worcester upon Avon Bedford Stradishall Woodbridge Kenmare Builth Wells HEREFORDSHIRE Pershore Towcester Macroom Youghal Strumble Cardigan Lampeter Shipston- Newport Pagnell Cork Great Malvern Biggleswade Ipswich Midleton Head on-Stour BEDFORDSHIRE Sudbury Newcastle Hay-on-Wye Evesham Milton Keynes Royston Caherdaniel Fishguard Hereford Ledbury Banbury Brackley Sa ron Cobh Cloyne Emlyn Llandovery Felixstowe Mathry Tewkesbury Moreton-in-Marsh Letchworth Baldock Walden Buckingham Leighton Halstead Manningtree Harwich Brecon Hitchin Dunmanway St David's CARMARTHENSHIRE Stow-on-the-Wold Chipping Norton Buzzard Stevenage Bantry Bandon Ramsey PEMBROKESHIRE Ross-on-Wye Colchester Kinsale Carmarthen Llandeilo Bicester Braintree Dursey Island Bear Island Island Newgale Cheltenham Dunstable Luton Stansted ESSEX Crickhowell Abergavenny Gloucester BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE Clonakilty Haverfordwest St Clears Kidlington Ware Witham Brightlingsea Clacton-on-Sea Narberth Ammanford Monmouth GLOUCESTERSHIRE Witney Aylesbury Tring Skomer Milford Ebbw Brynmawr St Albans Skibbereen Island Merthyr Harlow Haven Tyd l Vale Blaenavon Carterton Oxford Wendover Chelmsford Neyland Kidwelly NEATH MERTHYR BLAENAU GWENT MONMOUTHSHIRE Stroud Hemel Hat eld Skokholm PORT TALBOT Aberdare TYDFIL Pontypool Lydney Cirencester OXFORDSHIRE Thame Hempstead Maldon Island Pembroke Tenby Llanelli Southminster Glyncorrwg TORFAEN Nailsworth Amersham RHONDDA Bargoed Abingdon Watford Barnet Clear Island Neath CYNON TAFF Chepstow Faringdon En eld Brentwood Swansea CAERPHILLY Cwmbran Rayleigh St Govan's Maesteg Tetbury Cricklade Didcot High Wycombe Chigwell SWANSEA Port Pontypridd Risca Newport Wantage Harrow Head Caldicot Wallingford Marlow Basildon Port Eynon Talbot Malmesbury Uxbridge GREATER LONDON Southend-on-Sea Caerphilly NEWPORT Henley BRIDGEND Swindon Maidenhead Canvey Island CARDIFF Avonmouth Slough LONDON Porthcawl Bridgend Woolwich Tilbury Cardi BRISTOL BERKSHIRE Windsor Dartford Sheerness Cowbridge Chippenham Reading Richmond Gravesend Margate VALE OF GLAMORGAN Bristol Staines Clevedon Corsham Avebury Hungerford Rochester Barry Marlborough Newbury Bracknell Kingston Congresbury Bath Melksham Sutton Chatham Ramsgate Croydon Sittingbourne Weston-super-Mare Devizes Woking Epsom Kingsclere Faversham Sandwich Trowbridge WILTSHIRE Camberley Caterham Maidstone Cheddar Leatherhead Basingstoke Aldershot Reigate Sevenoaks KENT Canterbury Deal Lynton Burnham-on-Sea Westbury Dorking Oxted Ilfracombe Lynmouth Frome Andover Whitchurch Guildford Redhill Tonbridge Lundy Minehead Wells Warminster Farnham SURREY East Ashford Dover Watchet Pilton HAMPSHIRE Godalming Glastonbury Amesbury Alton Grinstead Braunton Crawley Cranbrook Folkestone Bridgwater Street New Alresford Tunbridge Wells Barnstaple Mere Haslemere Tenterden Hythe Wilton Winchester Liphook Horsham Crowborough Wincanton New Romney Bideford South Molton Taunton SOMERSET Salisbury Billingshurst Haywards Heath Hartland Shaftesbury Peters eld Wellington Romsey Heath eld Rye Great Torrington Eastleigh Midhurst Pulborough Uck eld Ilminster Yeovil Sherborne EAST SUSSEX Battle Dungeness Southampton WEST SUSSEX Hurstpierpoint Tiverton Crewkerne Lyndhurst Havant Arundel Chard Blandford Forum Fareham Chichester Lewes Hailsham Hastings Bude Ringwood Hythe Worthing Hove Bexhill Holsworthy Brockenhurst Gosport Newhaven Crediton Honiton Axminster Wimborne Minster Bognor Brighton Lymington Regis Littlehampton Eastbourne Okehampton Bridport DORSET New Milton Portsmouth Seaford Exeter Seaton Dorchester Cowes Boscastle Poole Newport Ryde Selsey Lyme Bournemouth Tintagel DEVON Sidmouth Regis Wareham ISLE Launceston Freshwater OF WIGHT Exmouth Weymouth Swanage Shanklin Dawlish Ventnor Padstow Wadebridge Tavistock Teignmouth Fortuneswell Ashburton Newton Abbot Bodmin Buckfastleigh Portland Bill Liskeard Torquay Newquay CORNWALL Saltash Totnes Paignton Plymouth St Austell Looe Torpoint Brixham Plympton Dartmouth St Agnes Fowey Truro Kingsbridge Redruth St Ives Salcombe Camborne St Mawes St Just Falmouth Penzance Sennen Helston Land's End Lizard Scilly Isles BEN LOMOND STIRLING
Ordnance Survey mapping ©Crown Copyright in association with Memory-Map/Bauer Media’s Media Licence number AM86/09 Start 2 1 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapshop 3 4 Buy maps at trees tocarpark. woodland. Continuethrough conifers give way tooak ride. Finallygradient easesand follow steeppathdown forest through anothergate,then forest. CrossArdessBurn,go through gateandontoedgeof south-west, comesdown Eventually pathcurves © Country Walking October2009 4 8km/5miles www.memory-map.co.uk Contact 08707409043 Scotland –OS1:50,000 Memory-Map V5 Southern Route createdusing
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