pennine way

The Pennine Way is a long-distance footpath in England. The trail runs 268 miles (431 km) from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District, north through the Yorkshire Dales and the Northumberland National Park, to end at Kirk Yetholm, just inside the Scottish border. The path was the 1935 idea of the journalist and rambler Tom Stephenson, inspired by similar trails in the United States, particularly the Appalachian Trail. The path runs along the Pennine hills, sometimes described as the "backbone of England". Although not the United Kingdom's longest trail, it is the most well-known and has long been very popular with walkers, some of whom use the many Youth Hostels along the route to break up a trek along the entire path. It is also easy to undertake just a short section of the trail. It passes close to or through the following places:

Edale
Kinder Scout
Glossop
Bleaklow
Black Hill
Saddleworth moor
Littleborough
Stoodley Pike
Todmorden (for the Caldervale line)
Hebden Bridge (for the Caldervale line)
Wadsworth Moor
Keighley Moor
Elslack Moor
Settle
Malham
Fountains Fell
Pen-y-ghent
Horton in Ribblesdale (On the Settle-Carlisle Railway)
Dodd Fell Hill
Hawes (for the Wensleydale railway)
Great Shunner Fell
Keld
Tan Hill
Crosses the A66
Great Dun Fell
Cross Fell
Alston
Haltwhistle
Hadrian's Wall (near the B6318)
Windy Gyle
The Cheviot
Kirk Yetholm

Pennine Way

See also