Cream cloth binding with black title and mountain trail image.

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A mistakenly forgotten book, which really should be at the top of your reading list. All in all a great guide. 

Guidebook to Britain’s National Trails – 19 long-distance walking routes through England, Wales and Scotland. Together, the National Trails cover well over 5000km (3100 miles), exploring the rich, scenic, historic countryside of Britain. Some trails are short and easy, while others are long and challenging. Some have a strong theme, following rugged coastlines or meandering rivers. Others use ancient cross-country routes or follow the courses of ancient boundaries. Packed with information, this guide will help you get out and walk the finest long-distance routes in the country. Outline schedules for each Trail allows you to compare the routes and organise your own walking itinerary. Basic day-by-day route descriptions for each Trail are illustrated with maps and profiles. For each Trail information is provided on access to and from the route, maps, public transport, guidebooks, TICs, accommodation and useful websites.

Reviews:

• Every year I/we undertake a long distance walk and have discovered this book. For purely research into all of the National Trails this book would seem indispensable. Yes you can get all the information you need from WWW but for indoors on cold nights in front of the fire there is nothing better than a book such as this. Anybody who has read any of Paddy’s guides will know his nonsense descriptive style and here he does enough to get you wanting to walk all of the trails. This book gives you enough to enjoy reading up on the walk or use it as a basic guide on the walk.
• ‘This book covers the 15 national trails of England, Wales plus four long-distance routes in Scotland. Paddy looks at each of them all in turn, unravelling their themes, what makes them special and to help us plan our next long walk.This is the book to savour as you start thinking about your next walk and where to go. I have to say that having had the book for over a week now, I find it a great wish to walk them all, that is, those not yet done. This is the book you should have when you start considering your next adventure or for those days when the weather is foul and you are feeling low. It will remind you what a wonderful land we live in and what delightful walks we have. –South West Coast Path Association / Autumn 2007

Paddy Dillon is a prolific outdoor writer with over 90 guidebooks to his name, and contributions to 40 other publications. He has written for a variety of outdoor magazines, as well as many booklets and brochures for tourism organisations. Paddy lives near the Lake District and has walked in every county in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; writing about walks in every one of them. He enjoys simple day walks, challenging long-distance walks, and is a dedicated island-hopper. He has led guided walks and walked extensively in Europe, as well as in Nepal, Tibet, Korea, Africa and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the United States. While researching routes, Paddy works directly onto a tablet, so that his descriptions are precise, having been written at the very point at which the reader uses them. He takes his own photographs, has appeared on radio and TV, and is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild.