First devised by Alfred Wainwright, the Coast to Coast Walk has emerged as a favourite among long-distance walkers. The route stretches some 185 miles (296km) from St Bees, an historic seaside village on Cumbria's west coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire. It is suitable for most fit walkers and can be comfortably walked in around a fortnight.

 

This guidebook presents the full route from west to east in 13 stages of 10½-20¾ miles (16.8-33.2km), with summaries covering the opposite direction. Alongside step-by-step route description, 1:100,000 mapping and fascinating notes about points of interest along the way, a comprehensive trek planner offers a helpful overview of facilities on route, and full accommodation listings and useful contacts can be found in the appendices. There is also a wealth of background information covering geology, history, wildlife and plants, and a list of further reading.

 

In addition, the guide INCLUDES a pocket-sized map booklet containing all the OS 1:25,000 mapping needed to complete the route, saving the need to carry numerous bulky maps. 

 

The Coast to Coast Walk crosses three national parks – the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors – and is characterised by fantastic scenery, varied landscapes and great camaraderie among walkers. This guide is an ideal companion to discovering this captivating route, which was named by Country Walking magazine as the second best walk in the world!


The Coast to Coast Walk

Across Lakeland

Stage 1 St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge

Stage 2 Ennerdale Bridge to Borrowdale

Stage 3 Borrowdale to Patterdale

Stage 4 Patterdale to Shap

Into the Dales

Stage 5 Shap to Kirkby Stephen

Stage 6 Kirkby Stephen to Keld

Stage 7A Keld to Reeth (high-level route)

Stage 7B Keld to Reeth (low-level route)

Stage 8 Reeth to Richmond

Stage 9 Richmond to Danby Wiske

Stage 10 Danby Wiske to Osmotherley

The North York Moors

Stage 11 Osmotherley to Blakey Ridge

Stage 12 Blakey Ridge to Grosmont

Stage 13 Grosmont to Robin Hood’s Bay

Reviews

Terry Marsh's Cicerone guide really does provide everything you need to know to plan and undertake it's 188 miles. Possibly the best thing about this guide is the fact you get two for one. There is a separate map book using OS maps, covering the entire route in a scale of 1:25k, which provides all the mapping you will need unless you go seriously off route!

Trail magazine

Why would anybody want any other guidebook than the founder's own? Terry Marsh's Cicerone guide first appeared twenty years after Wainwright's, is now into its fourth edition and it gets better every time. Packed with colourful photography identifying it immediately as a very different beast to AW's - and fascinating details of features along the route, it's an excellent planning tool as well as a guide, with itineraries, gradient profiles and appendices stuffed with accommodation providers, useful contacts and further reading.

Lakeland Walker Magazine