Books for Long Distance Trails

In Tales from the Big Trails, author Martyn Howe describes his forty-year quest to walk the iconic long-distance trails of England, Scotland and Wa...

Are you ready to start planning your next trail adventure? Big Trails: Great Britain & Ireland (Volume 1) is an inspirational guide to the most...

Yet more Big Trails from Vertebrate Publishing! Big Trails: Great Britain and Ireland Volume 2 is the second volume of this inspirational guide to ...

The Borders Abbeys Way is one of Scotland’s Great Trails, a fascinating circuit that takes in the historic ruined abbeys of Melrose, Dryburgh, Kels...

The Cumbria Way links the market town of Ulverston, situated on the Furness peninsula in South Cumbria to the historic city of Carlisle in the nort...

Easy to use guidebook, published in 2020, describing each stage of the world-famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. It includes maps and route...

This is the official guidebook to the Cleveland Way National Trail. This comprehensive, fully updated official guide is the only companion you need...

The Cleveland Way is one of England’s oldest and best-loved National Trails. Rucksack Readers' new second edition has larger-scale mapping, several...

Trailblazer's guide to the Cleveland Way written by Henry Stedman. Includes 48 detailed walking maps: the largest-scale maps available – At just u...

A walking guidebook to the Cleveland Way and Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trails, plus the Tabular Hills Walk. Crossing the North York Moors Nation...

Published in 2018 Rucksack Readers expanded and fully revised second edition of this guidebook covers the challenging coast-to-coast walk from St B...

9th edition of Trailblazer's guide to the Coast to Coast, from St Bees on the Irish Sea across the width of Northern England to the North Sea at Ro...

A best-selling guide to the UK's premier long-distance, coast-to-coast cycle route - around 140 miles of superb scenery, from the Irish Sea to the ...

Guidebook by Terry Marsh to the Coast to Coast long distance walking route from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire. This guid...

This guide covers from Bude to Plymouth (288¼ miles/460km) of the South West Coast Path. Includes 142 detailed walking maps: the largest-scale map...

The official guide for the Cotswold Way National Trail by Anthony Burton. This excellent book provides full and detailed route information, describ...

Includes 44 detailed walking maps: the largest-scale maps available – at just under 1:20,000 (8cm or 3 1/8 inches to one mile) these are bigger th...

An excellent, up-to-date guidebook to the ever-popular Cotswold Way National Trail, including 1:25,000 scale Ordnance Survey maps for the entire tr...

A Guidebook to walking the Cotswold Way National Trail. Described in both directions over 13 stages.  The stage-by-stage route description is acco...

This guidebook describes over 200km of the Bridleway, from Summit, near Rochdale, up to Ravenstonedale, through the rugged landscape of the Yorkshi...

This guide by Trailblazer covers the section of the South West Coast Path, from Plymouth to Poole Harbour (217 miles). This beautiful route include...

This guidebook from Trailblazer covers the first 124.5 miles of the South West Coast Path, from Minehead to Bude. The section takes approximately 1...

The Fife Coastal Path runs around the coastline of eastern Scotland for 117 miles (187 km) from Kincardine on the Forth to Newburgh on the Tay. Sta...

A complete guide to walking Glyndŵr's Way National Trail by Paddy Dillon. This guidebook divides the 135 mile trail into nine day stages, starting ...

Fully revised in 2019-20 after extensive fieldwork this guidebook includes new large-scale mapping (1:38,000) with mileage markers and a kilometre ...

Trailblazer's guidebook to the Great Glen Way, a relatively easy week-long walk amongst beautiful Highland scenery including a high level option be...

A guidebook to walking the Great Glen Way, a 79-mile trail along the Caledonia Canal from Fort William to Inverness. The route is described in both...

This full-colour guidebook contains a wealth of information on the history of the Wall, and a range of practical information for walkers, from acco...

The official guidebook by Anthony Burton includes colour extracts from the Ordnance Survey's Explorer series at 1:25,000 showing points along the r...

Revised in 2016 this guidebook from Rucksack Readers contains all you need to plan and enjoy Hadrian’s Wall Path: detailed route description for t...

An excellent, up-to-date guidebook to the ever-popular Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail, including 1:25,000 scale Ordnance Survey maps for the en...

New two-way guide re-researched in both directions: Bowness to Newcastle and Newcastle to Bowness. Route descriptions included for both directions ...

The Cicerone Press Hadrian’s Wall Path Guidebook includes a Hadrian’s Wall Walk route map and contains an abundance of information for walkers, hel...

Rucksack Reader's guidebook, updated in 2018, contains all you need to plan and enjoy the John Muir Way. The route is as suitable for cyclists as f...

This 80 page guide by Robert Peel and Peter Smith covers the first section of the England Coast Path to be opened in Kent, the 66 miles between Cam...

This selected Cornish section of the South West Coast Path runs for 42 miles from St Ives to Penzance. It provides a superb week’s-worth of walking...

Guide to walking the Cleveland Way by Stephen I. Robinson. The Trail is split into nine sections and the book includes useful information on what t...

Trailblazer's guidebook to the London Loop (the London Outer Orbital Path). The London Loop is a 150 mile circuit of the capital, starting at Erith...

This is the definitive guide to the best long distance trails in Britain, leading you through landscapes rich in history, wildlife and views. OS re...

The Nidderdale Way is a delightful 54-mile circuit in the Yorkshire Dales, much of it beside the River Nidd. The route starts and ends in the marke...

This official guide by Bruce Robinson is the only Trail companion you need. With colour extracts from the Ordnance Survey's Explorer series at 1:25...

Guidebook to the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail from Knettishall Heath to Hopton-on-Sea, described in sections over 12 days. Inc...

This guidebook to the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail describes the Trail in 11 stages between Knettishall Heath and Hopton-on-Se...

The official guide for the North Downs Way written by Colin Saunders. This new edition has been re-written and re-designed from beginning to end, t...

16 towns plans and 84 large-scale walking maps – at just under 1:20,000 – showing route times, places to stay, points of interest and much more It...

This guidebook to the North Downs Way by Kev Reynolds describes the trail in 11 day stages from west to east with an optional detour via Canterbury...

The tidal waters of Northumberland stretch from Newcastle up to the Scottish border at Berwick-upon-Tweed. This guide maps out the walker's route a...