Britain's iconic long-distance walks

188.9 mi (304 km) · 10–18 days · Moderate

Wainwright's walk across England: Irish Sea to North Sea through the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors.

256.6 mi (413 km) · 13–21 days · Hard

Edale to Kirk Yetholm along England's Pennine spine through three national parks, Hadrian's Wall, and the Cheviot Hills.

83.9 mi (135 km) · 5–10 days · Moderate

Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway coast to coast, following Hadrian's Wall past Roman forts, the Whin Sill, and Solway marshes.

101.9 mi (164 km) · 4–9 days · Moderate

An idyllic walk to the Roman city of Bath along the Cotswold edge: beech woods, honey-stone villages and long views west to the Malverns.

100.7 mi (162 km) · 5–10 days · Moderate

Winchester to Eastbourne along a chalk ridge, past Butser Hill and Devil's Dyke, to the white cliffs of the Seven Sisters.

178.3 mi (287 km) · 11–16 days · Hard

The Black Mountains, the Shropshire Hills and the Clwydian Range, walked beside a 1,200-year-old earthwork on the border of England and Wales.

108.1 mi (174 km) · 5–11 days · Moderate

Heather moor and the Cleveland Hills, then cliffs, fishing villages and Whitby Abbey on the Yorkshire coast, from Helmsley to Filey.

74.6 mi (120 km) · 3–6 days · Moderate

From the foot of Ben Nevis to Inverness Castle along Scotland's greatest geological fault, by the Caledonian Canal, Loch Oich and Loch Ness.

86.4 mi (139 km) · 6–8 days · Moderate

Known as Britain's oldest road, along the chalk downs past the White Horse to the beech woods of the Chilterns.

77.1 mi (124 km) · 5–8 days · Moderate

Hessle Haven to Filey Brigg across quiet Wolds valleys, dry chalk dales, and broad views over eastern Yorkshire.

87.0 mi (140 km) · 5–8 days · Moderate

The River Spey from the sea to the Cairngorms, through whisky country, osprey pinewoods and a steam railway, from Buckie to Newtonmore.

78.3 mi (126 km) · 5–9 days · Moderate

A week by the rivers of the Yorkshire Dales, over the moor where the Wharfe begins, to a bench above Windermere.

96.3 mi (155 km) · 6–9 days · Moderate

From Glyndŵr's Machynlleth to Edward I's castle at Conwy, through the valleys under Cadair Idris, Yr Wyddfa and Tryfan.

46.6 mi (75 km) · 3–5 days · Moderate

"The best of the beautiful White Peak": Cave Dale, the lead villages and Robin Hood's Stride, then over the Dove to Rocester.