The National Trails

Foreword
Route Summary Table

Introduction

Wanted: A Long Green Trail
Making Trails
Trail Theme
Waymarking
Path Associations
Maps
Guidebooks
Long-distance Laughs
Websites
Accommodation
Food and Drink
Tourist Information Centres
Preparing for a Long Walk
General Fitness
Packing
Best Time of Year
Making Time
Who’s Going?
Planning
Public Transport
Daily Routine
Emergencies

England

1 South West Coast Path
2 South Downs Way
3 North Downs Way
4 The Ridgeway
5 Thames Path
6 Cotswold Way
7 Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path
8 Yorkshire Wolds Way
9 Cleveland Way
10 Pennine Bridleway
11 Pennine Way
12 Hadrian’s Wall Path

Wales

13 Pembrokeshire Coast Path
14 Offa’s Dyke Path
15 Glyndwr’s Way

Scotland

16 Southern Upland Way
17 Speyside Way
18 West Highland Way
19 Great Glen Way

APPENDIX 1 Useful Contacts
APPENDIX 2 England Coast Path

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"A bible for serious walkers"

YHA magazine

"Paddy Dillon has walked all of Britain's National Trails at least twice and has also written five Cicerone guidebooks to six of them. so there could hardly be a more appropriate person to write this large format general book on Britain's National Trails.

This paperback book is not an actual guidebook to the National Trails (NTs) themselves, but more of a compendium, a reference book to the 19 Trails. After a 19-page general introduction. which includes some useful advice to newcomers to trail walking. the main body of the book consists of a description of the National Trails, one by one, starting with the longest. the South West Coast Path, followed by the remaining II paths in England. Then come the three National Trails in Wales and lastly the four Long Distance Routes north of the Border.

The book is attractively designed and each Trail is illustrated with a good selection of photographs. which will surely inspire both potential and seasoned NT walkers to don their boots and go. Pleasing colour sketch maps and height profiles of the routes are included. The work will appeal to National Trail Register members and others who 24 want an all·in·one reference book to the 19 NT walks. The overviews of each trail in the book should also be found useful by those walkers trying to decide which NT to choose for their next trail walking holiday. It will no doubt bring back fond memories of happy days spent walking the Trails for those readers who have already walked them."

Strider, the magazine of the Long Distance Walkers' Association