Route

The following is a rough plan. Timings and even destinations are at the mercy of many variables; weather, season (ferry availability), health, life events (Wedding invitations) as well as safety factors (extreme weather etc.).

David will also be taking rest days as and when he needs them and will also be arranging shifts in branch which is going to extend the ending of the walk. We expect the whole walk to take about two years…but it isn’t a race!

Branch number	miles	days (estimated)
1) Doncaster to Scunthorpe	23.1	2
2) Scunthorpe to Grimsby	27.7	2
3) Grimsby to Hull	28.7	2
4) Hull to Barnsley	57.8	4
5) Barnsley to Wakefield	10.2	1
6) Wakefield to Huddersfield	14	1
7) Huddersfield to Halifax	7.4	1
8) Halifax to Bradford	9	1
9) Bradford to Leeds	9.5	1
10) Leeds to Harrogate	15.6	1
11) Harrogate to York	20	2
12) York to Bridlington	41	3
13) Bridlington to Scarborough	16.6	1
14) Scarborough to Northallerton	49.4	3
15) Northallerton to Darlington	16.4	1
16) Darlington to Middlesborough	15	1
17) Middlesborough to Durham	23.2	2
18) Durham to Sunderland	12.7	1
19) Sunderland to Newcastle	12.9	1
20) Newcastle to Ashington	16.4	1
21) Ashington to Selkirk	68.2	4
22) Selkirk to Edinburgh	38.6	3
23) Edinburgh to Falkirk	24.8	2
24) Falkirk to Dunfermline	17.4	1
25) Dunfermline to Kirkcaldy	13.9	1
26) Kirkcaldy to Perth	25.8	2
27) Perth to Dundee	21.7	2
28) Dundee to Aberdeen	64.3	4
29) Aberdeen to Elgin	64.8	4
30) Elgin to Inverness	38.2	3
31) Inverness to Caithness	108	7
32) Caithness to Orkney	48	3
33) Orkney to Shetland	120	2
34) Shetland to Stornoway	333	13
35) Stornoway to Greenock	255	15
36) Greenock to Glasgow	21.9	2
37) Glasgow to Hamilton	11.6	1
38) Hamilton to Ayrshire	24.6	2
39) Ayrshire to Dumfries	57.8	4
40) Dumfries to Carlisle	33.2	2
41) Carlisle to Whitehaven	37.9	3
42) Whitehaven to Barrow	42.5	3
43) Barrow to Lancaster	43.6	3
44) Lancaster to Blackpool	22.9	2
45) Blackpool to Preston	16.4	1
46) Preston to Blackburn	9.5	1
47) Blackburn to Nelson	14.2	1
48) Nelson to Rochdale	18.8	1
49) Rochdale to Bury	6.9	1
50) Bury to Bolton	5.8	1
51) Bolton to Wigan	10.3	1
52) Wigan to Southport	19.7	2
53) Southport to Liverpool	19.6	2
54) Liverpool to Isle of Man	83.5	1
55) Isle of Man to Belfast	97.8	1
56) Belfast to Ballymena	27	2
57) Ballymena to Coleraine	25.3	2
58) Coleraine to Derry	30.5	2
59) Derry to Omagh	33.6	2
60) Omagh to Sligo	62.9	4
61) Sligo to Athlone	69.6	5
62) Athlone to Galway	53	4
63) Galway to Ennis	41.5	3
64) Ennis to Limerick	22.8	2
65) Limerick to Tralee	59.3	4
66) Tralee to Cork	62.8	4
67) Cork to Waterford	74	5
68) Waterford to Kilkenny	30.5	2
69) Kilkenny to Newbridge	45.2	3
70) Newbridge to Dublin	27.4	2
71) Dublin to Drogheda	29.3	2
72) Drogheda to Newry	34.2	3
73) Newry to Portadown	19.4	2
74) Portadown to Bangor	39.3	3
75) Bangor to Warrington	203	3
76) Warrington to Manchester	18	1
77) Manchester to Stockport	5.1	1
78) Stockport to Buxton	17.8	1
79) Buxton to Macclesfield	10.6	1
80) Macclesfield to Leek	12.9	1
81) Leek to Stoke	9.6	1
82) Stoke to Crewe	12.9	1
83) Crewe to Northwich	13.2	1
84) Northwich to Chester	18.6	1
85) Chester to Rhyl	29.5	2
86) Rhyl to Bangor	34.1	2
87) Bangor to Aberystwyth	76.6	5
88) Aberystwyth to Llandrindod Wells	39.2	3
89) Llandrindod Wells to Haverfordwest	84.4	6
90) Haverfordwest to Swansea	54.2	4
91) Swansea to Bridgend	22.7	2
92) Bridgend to Cardiff	18.9	1
93) Cardiff to Newport	12	1
94) Newport to Gloucester	44.6	3
95) Gloucester to Cheltenham	9.2	1
96) Cheltenham to Hereford	36.1	3
97) Hereford to Worcester	26.2	2
98) Worcester to Shrewsbury	47.8	3
99) Shrewsbury to Telford	11.3	1
100) Telford to Stafford	20.9	1
101) Stafford to Tamworth	23.9	2
102) Tamworth to Walsall	13.7	1
103) Walsall to Wolverhampton	8.2	1
104) Wolverhampton to Brierley Hill	9.5	1
105) Brierley Hill to Birmingham	10.7	1
106) Birmingham to Solihull	7.2	1
107) Solihull to Coventry	12.6	1
108) Coventry to Stratford	18	1
109) Stratford to Banbury	20.4	1
110) Banbury to Oxford	24.2	2
111) Oxford to Reading	25.9	2
112) Reading to Bracknell	10.7	1
113) Bracknell to Farnborough	10.2	1
114) Farnborough to Guildford	9.9	1
115) Guildford to Basingstoke	25	2
116) Basingstoke to Newbury	16.4	1
117) Newbury to Swindon	25.2	2
118) Swindon to Bath	32.9	2
119) Bath to Bristol	10.9	1
120) Bristol to Weston-super-mare	20.9	2
121) Weston-super-mare to Yeovil	37.6	3
122) Yeovil to Taunton	25	2
123) Taunton to Barnstable	45.4	3
124) Barnstable to Truro	81.9	5
125) Truro to Plymouth	57.1	4
126) Plymouth to Torquay	30.8	2
127) Torquay to Exeter	22.7	2
128) Exeter to Weymouth	56	4
129) Weymouth to Guernsey	89.9	1
130) Guernsey to Jersey	35	1
131) Jersey to Bournemouth	125	1
132) Bournemouth to Isle of Wight	32.2	2
133) Isle of Wight to Southampton	17.3	1
134) Southampton to Salisbury	22.5	2
135) Salisbury to Winchester	23.3	2
136) Winchester to Portsmouth	24.2	2
137) Portsmouth to Bognor Regis	21	2
138) Bognor Regis to Worthing	15.7	1
139) Worthing to Hove	9.7	1
140) Hove to Horsham	20.1	1
141) Horsham to Tunbridge Wells	29.3	2
142) Tunbridge Wells to Eastbourne	28.7	2
143) Eastbourne to Hastings	16.8	1
144) Hastings to Ashford	27.9	2
145) Ashford to Folkstone	16.3	1
146) Folkstone to Canterbury	16.7	1
147) Canterbury to Maidstone	27.1	2
148) Maidstone to Medway	9.2	1
149) Medway to Bexleyheath	17.8	1
150) Bexleyheath to Bromley	7.2	1
151) Bromley to Croydon	9.5	1
152) Croydon to Reigate	12.4	1
153) Reigate to Leatherhead	8.3	1
154) Leatherhead to Kingston	7.6	1
155) Kingston to Weybridge	10.3	1
156) Weybridge to Slough	13.1	1
157) Slough to Uxbridge	6	1
158) Uxbridge to Amersham	11.5	1
159) Amersham to Watford	10.7	1
160) Watford to Harrow	6.4	1
161) Harrow to Brent	5.7	1
162) Brent to Ealing	4.9	1
163) Ealing to Putney	5.1	1
164) Putney to London Branch	5.4	1
165) London Branch to Lewisham	5.7	1
166) Lewisham to Enfield	11.6	1
167) Enfield to Leyton	6.8	1
168) Leyton to Ilford	4.9	1
169) Ilford to Romford	5.1	1
170) Romford to Basildon	13	1
171) Basildon to Southend	13.6	1
172) Southend to Chelmsford	20.8	2
173) Chelmsford to Ware	24.9	2
174) Ware to Hitchin	16.7	1
175) Hitchin to Luton	8.4	1
176) Luton to Milton Keynes	19.7	1
177) Milton Keynes to Bedford	16.9	1
178) Bedford to Northampton	21	2
179) Northampton to Kettering	14.1	1
180) Kettering to Leicester	25.3	2
181) Leicester to Peterborough	40.4	3
182) Peterborough to Cambridge	36.2	3
183) Cambridge to Bury St. Edmunds	28	2
184) Bury St. Edmunds to Colchester	29.4	2
185) Colchester to Ipswich	19.3	1
186) Ipswich to Lowestoft	42.4	3
187) Lowestoft to Great Yarmouth	10.2	1
188) Great Yarmouth to Norwich	20.3	1
189) Norwich to Kings Lynn	41.5	3
190) Kings Lynn to Boston	32.1	2
191) Boston to Lincoln	32.4	2
192) Lincoln to Grantham	24.9	2
193) Grantham to Nottingham	24.2	2
194) Nottingham to Derby	15.4	1
195) Derby to Mansfield	22.6	2
196) Mansfield to Chesterfield	13	1
197) Chesterfield to Sheffield	10.9	1
198) Sheffield to Rotherham	7	1
199) Rotherham to Doncaster	12.2	1
200) Festival Branch
201) Correspondence Branch
TOTAL	6077.4	392