UK LONG DISTANCE FOOTPATHS

Photo diaries of the UK's great walking trails

Daily walks

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Drumnadrochit to Inverness

Great Glen Way - Day 4 - 19.7 miles - 'Fairytale' There was a moment on today's walk when I was sitting in the sun drinking tea in a...

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Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit

Great Glen Way - Day 3 - 14.3 miles - 'Nessie' The driver of the No. 919 Citylink bus from Inverness to Fort William was in a strop....

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Laggan Locks to Invermoriston

Great Glen Way - Day 2 - 21.4 miles - 'Commute' A usual LeJog day starts with me pulling on the boots and walking into the great unknown....

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Fort William to Laggan Locks.

Great Glen Way - Day 1 - 23 Miles - 'Caledonia.' [Note that I walked the Great Glen Way as part of a longer walk from Land's End to John...

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COTSWOLD WAY

Bath to Chipping Campden, 102 miles

Honeystone villages, hidden valleys and a big-vista woodland escarpment in the quintessentially English walk-in-the-countryside.

DALES WAY

Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere, 80 miles

A charming introduction to the Yorkshire and Westmorland Dales, weaving a magic riverside way from urban West Yorkshire to the shores of Windermere.

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GREAT GLEN WAY

Fort William to Inverness, 78 miles

Charmed lochs, pine forests, heather moors and the Caledonian Canal in this popular traverse of the Great Glen Fault.

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JOHN O'GROATS TRAIL

Inverness to John o'Groats, 147 miles

A walk on the wild side, steeped in history, adventure and wildlife, and visiting barely-visited beaches, dramatic cliffs and secluded fishing villages.

PENNINE JOURNEY

Settle to Settle, 247 miles

Endlessly engaging North Pennines circular following the 1938 'campaign' of Lakeland fell wanderer Alfred Wainwright.

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PENNINE WAY

Edale to Kirk Yetholm, 268 miles

Tom Stephenson's long green trail; England's finest National Trail.

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WEST HIGHLAND WAY

Milngavie to Fort William, 96 miles

Joining the crowds on the UK's busiest trail, featuring loch-side trails, ancient woodland and upland passes backed by some of Scotland's most impressive mountains.