National Trails

We are blessed in the United Kingdom to have such a range of National Walking Trails, you can walk in the hills, along the coast, by rivers and in the mountains. You can choose to do parts of these trails and in my time I've walked chunks of the Cotswold Way, Offa's Dyke Path, the South West Coast Path and the South Downs to name just a few.

At the moment I'm close to completing the Thames Path with the East End Girls - http://www.walkerscoach.com/east_end_girls.htm and if you look at the page you'll see some of the photos taken on our Thames path journey. It's been great to be on a National Trail and we have a long list of others we want to complete, perhaps we'll just decide to do a full set!

Two very different view of the Thames from the Thames Path

If you were to choose which trail would you opt for? My top two at present are the Hadrian's wall Path and the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path.

Before setting out, you don't have to know the paths, there are official National Trail Guides and they are wonderful, mine for the Thames Path is well thumbed through. These books are all currently being revised and the entire set of 20 are due to be completed within the year. So far
the Cotswold Way, Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path, Hadrian's Wall Path and Cleveland Way are now in the shops and the South West Coast Path ( Falmouth to Exmouth), Offa's Dyke Path, Pembrokeshire Coast Path, South Downs Way, North Downs Way, Thames Path and Pennine Way North will be completed soon. If you are up for any of these trails, make sure you get the new books and make sure that your information is the best that it can be.