The Route
Each day averages 37 miles, though some may be marginally shorter or longer depending on terrain and end of day supplies or b&b location. The aim is to start each day at 7am and complete the section by 9pm.
Day Mi Climb Start
1 37 1,280 JoG
2 42 1,920 Dunbeath
3 39 800 Dornoch
4 41 1,280 Inverness (GT GLEN)
5 40 1,450 Aberchalder
6 39 5,472 Kinlochleven (WHW)
7 40 1,580 Inverarnan
8 38 1,568 Lennoxtown (John Muir Way)
9 41 2,760 Broxburn (Union Canal)
10 41 3,300 Innerleithen
11 39 3,712 Edgerston
12 27 3,436 Twice Brewed
13 41 6,332 Garrigill
14 39 5,536 Baldersdale
15 36 5,888 Horton in Ribblesdale
16 38 6,160 Ponden Hall
17 42 5,136 nr Glossop
18 34 2,544 Thorpe
19 41 3,364 Penkridge
20 40 5,944 Easthorpe
21 39 5,444 Newchurch
22 26 3,680 Monmouth
23 40 3,446 Pill
24 41 4,152 Woolavington
25 39 5,442 Exford
26 32 8,742 Fairy Cross
27 31 8,352 Bude
28 30 4,096 Port Isaac "Easy" days
29 32 6,808 Newquay
30 25 2,200 Portreath
End Land's End
Starting at John O'Groats we'll follow the road and short trails down to Inverness, then the Great Glen way following General Wade's Military Road to Fort William to complete the Highlands section.
From Fort William at the foot of Ben Nevis (option to climb it if we're feeling sprightly) skirting Rannoch Moor and then on to the West Hightland Way past Loch Lomond. A section of disused railway track to Glasgow, then more canal following the Forth and Clyde to Falkirk and the Union Canal to Edinburgh. Crossing the Southern Uplands theough West Linton, Peebles and Melrose and on to the Roman road to Jedburgh and the start of the Pennine Way bordering Lancashire and Yorkshire down to Hebden Bridge.
Through the Calder Valley and crossing the Peak District along limestone valleys and gritstones edges on the line of the Alternative Pennine Way, then across Cannock Chase and on to the Staffordshire Way into Staffordshire. Crossing the Severn for the first time at Ironbridge we head South West through the Shropshire hills to join Offa's Dyke Path at Knighton. Throught the Wye Valley down to Chepstow and over the Severn Bridge, we skirt Bristol and hit the Mendips, Quantocks and finally Exmoor before joining the South West Coast Path at Barnstaple. From there it's the hilly but spectacular northwest coast of Devon and Cornwall all the way to a finish at Land's end after 30 days, 1203 miles and a hell of a lot of hills.
