Three Points of the Compass does like to complete a decent multi-day trail when possible. I walked over 2500 miles on a solo linear ‘Lands End to John o’ Groats Plus‘ walk in 2018. I continue to work through the official long-distance ‘National Trails’ in England, Wales and the best of what Scotland now call their ‘Great Trails’. Will I ever knock them all off? Well that is the plan! As to those remaining two biggies- the 870 mile Wales Coast Path and 2700 mile England Coast Path, we shall have to see. Beyond home-grown trails, I’ll occasionally explore overseas and links are included below for some of those.

This is an almost complete list of longer trails I have walked in the UK and elsewhere, with links to where I have written a little more on them- including a little on trail specific gear, food and water sources etc.

United Kingdom

• Boudicca Way
• Borders Abbeys Way- A Scottish Great Trail
• Cape Wrath Trail
• Cleveland Way- National Trail
  • Days 1 to 3, Helmsley to Margrove Park
  • Days 4 to 7, Margrove Park to Filey
• Dale’s Way
• England Coast Path: nope- nowhere near! I have only completed about 1000 miles of this 2700+ mile trail (of which 630 miles was the South West Coast Path), but (very) slowly knocking it off.
• Grand Union Canal Walk– from London to Birmingham
  • London to Marsworth
  • Marsworth to Stoke Bruerne (Roade)
  • Stoke Bruerne (Roade) to Stockton
  • Stockton to Birmingham
• Great Glen Way- A Scottish Great Trail
  • Days 1 to 3, Fort William to Fort Augustus
  • Days 4 to 6, Fort Augustus to Inverness
  • Facilities on the Great Glen Way
• Gritstone Trail
• Hadrian’s Wall Path- National Trail
• Icknield Way
  • post hike look at gear
• Isle of Wight Coastal Path (twice)
• London Countryway
  • A hundred miles completed
  • Two hundred miles completed
  • End report
• London Jubilee Walkway
  • statues and public art on a c16 mile day walk
  • statues and public art on a c13 mile night walk
  • Resources for the Jubilee Walkway
• London LOOP (London Outer Orbital Path)
• North Down’s Way- both alternates completed- National Trail
• Offa’s Dyke Path- National Trail
• Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path- National Trail
  • Peddars Way
  • Norfolk Coast Path
  • A Curator Explores- Part One
  • A Curator Explores- Part Two
• Pembrokeshire Coast Path- National Trail
  • A two-week itinerary
  • post hike gear review
• Pennine Bridleway- both loops completed within this- National Trail
  • Maps and guidebooks for the Pennine Bridleway
  • Pennine Bridleway- Middleton Top to the Mary Towneley Loop
  • Pennine Bridleway- The Mary Towneley Loop
  • Pennine Bridleway- Mary Towneley Loop to Settle
  • Pennine Bridleway- The Settle Loop
  • Pennine Bridleway- Settle to The Street, Ravenstonedale
  • Dry stone walls on the Pennine Bridleway
• Pennine Way- National Trail
• The Pilgrims Way
  • The London Link
    • Southwark Cathedral to Welling
    • Welling to Dartford
    • Dartford to Otford
• The Ridgeway- National Trail
  • Short film- Grims Ditch
  • Planning
  • Food 
  • Water sources on the Ridgeway
• South Downs Way– National Trail
  • Water sources on the South Downs Way
• South West Coast Path- National Trail
• Southern Upland Way- A Scottish Great Trail
  • Portpatrick to the Glenkens
  • The Glenkens to Moffat
  • Moffat to Cocksburnspath
  • ‘Treasure’ on the Southern Upland Way
• Speyside Way– A Scottish Great Trail
• The Tabular Hills Walk
• The Thames Path- National Trail
  • The Thames Path
  • The Thames Path: Kemble to Cricklade
  • The Thames Path: Cricklade to Lechlade
  • The Thames Path: Lechlade to Tadpole Bridge
  • The Thames Path: Tadpole Bridge to Bablock Hythe
  • The Thames Path: Bablock Hythe to Osney Bridge, Oxford
  • The Thames Path: Osney Bridge, Oxford to Abingdon
  • The Thames Path: Abingdon to Shillingford/Warborough
  • The Thames Path: Shillingford/Warborough to Goring
  • The Thames Path: Goring to Sonning
  • The Thames Path: Sonning to Marlow
  • The Thames Path: Marlow to Windsor
  • The Thames Path: Windsor to Chertsey
  • The Thames Path: Chertsey to Hampton Wick/Kingston-on-Thames
  • The Thames Path: Hampton Wick/Kingston-on-Thames to Putney
  • The Thames Path: Putney to Tower Bridge
  • The Thames Path: Tower Bridge to Woolwich Foot Tunnel
• Two Moors Way
• The Wealdway
• West Highland Way (twice)- A Scottish Great Trail
• Wherryman’s Way
• Yorkshire Wolds Way– National Trail
  • A four day food carry on the Wolds Way

Kent (my home county)

• Isle of Sheppey- the birthplace of British Aviation
  • England Coast Path- circuit of the Isle of Sheppey- day one
  • England Coast Path- circuit of the Isle of Sheppey- day two
• Isle of Thanet- a daywalk looking for Vikings and Hovercraft
• Medway Valley Walk
  • Day One: Tonbridge to Maidstone
  • Day Two: Maidstone to Rochester
  • A return to this river, two years after my last visit
• The Miner’s Way
• My ‘not-so-local local walk‘
• Saxon Shore Way
  • Gravesend to Sittingbourne
  • Self isolating on the North Kent Marshes- Sittingbourne to Faversham
  • Sittingbourne to Dover
  • Dover to Hastings
• Swale Heritage Trail– medieval churches on the North Kent Marshes

Beer trails

• Birmingham
• City of London

A hike across mainland Britain

My 2018 Three Points of the Compass walk across England, Wales and Scotland totalled over 2500 miles and within this I took in the furthest mainland compass points South, South West, West, North West, North and North East, I also walked Lands End to John O’Groats within this longer hike. Some longer ‘named’ trails were included in this such as the 630 mile South West Coast Path, 177 mile Offa’s Dyke Path. 255 mile Pennine Way, 96 mile West Highland Way and 200 mile Cape Wrath Trail.

• Summary of my 2018 ‘Three Points of the Compass‘ walk across the UK.
  • Sixty days to go
  • Fifty days to go
  • Thirty five days to go
  • Thirty days to go
  • Twenty days to go
  • Six days to go
  • I’m off!
  • The first thirteen days- done
  • “what’d you think of cardiac hill?”
  • The next stage
  • I’ve done it!

• Offas Dyke Path

Beyond the UK

• Belgium:
  • Marche Européenne du Souvenir et de l’Amitié (MESA)
• Greece
  • Corfu Trail
• Iceland: Laugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls Trails.
  • Landmannalaugar to Álftavatn on the Laugavegur Trail
  • Álftavatn to Básar on the Laugavegur Trail
  • Básar to Skógar on the Fimmvörðuháls Trail
  • Gear used on the Laugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls Trails
• Italy:
  • Sicily
• Netherlands:
  • Nijmegen Vierdagse (International Four Days Marches Nijmegen)
• Spain:
  • Balearic Islands
    • Menorca– GR223- Camí de Cavalls
  • Canary Islands
    • Sketching in Fuerteventura
    • Gran Canaria campsites
• Sweden:
  • Fjällräven Classic Sweden 2023- application, logistics and stats
  • Fjällräven Classic Sweden- heading west to the Kungsleden. Nikkaluokta to Sälka
  • Fjällräven Classic Sweden- heading north on the Kungsleden. Sälka to Abisko