Three Points of the Compass does like to get his teeth into a decent length of trail when he can. Not all of these are the official long-distance ‘National Trails’ in England, Wales and Scotland however. But it is my aim to slowly work through as many of those over time. Fifteen of the (at present) nineteen National Trails completed to date, will I ever knock them all off?

Below are a handful of links to a few blogs I’ve written of just a few of my hikes- including a little on gear, food and water sources etc.

United Kingdom

• Cleveland Way- National Trail
  • Days 1 to 3, Helmsley to Margrove Park
  • Days 4 to 7, Margrove Park to Filey
• 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
• Icknield Way
  • post hike look at gear
• London Countryway
  • A hundred miles completed
  • Two hundred miles completed
  • End report
• London Jubilee Walkway
  • a selection of statues and public art seen on a c16 mile day walk
  • a selection of statues and public art seen on a c13 mile night walk
  • Resources for the Jubilee Walkway
• London LOOP
  • A Curator Explores- Part One
  • A Curator Explores- Part Two
• Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path- National Trail
  • Part One
  • Part Two
  • 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- 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
  • Stone buildings on the Pennine Bridleway
• The Pilgrims Way
  • The London Link
    • Day One: Southwark Cathedral to Welling
    • Day Two: Welling to Dartford
    • Day Three: Dartford to Otford
• The Ridgeway- National Trail
  • Planning
  • Food 
  • Water sources
  • Short film- Grims Ditch on The Ridgeway
• South Downs Way– National Trail
  • Water sources on the South Downs Way
• 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 Wealdway
• Yorkshire Wolds Way– National Trail
  • A four day food carry on the Wolds Way

Kent

• Isle of Sheppey- the birthplace of British Aviation
• Isle of Thanet- a daywalk looking for Vikings and Hovercraft
• Medway Valley Walk
  • Day One: Tonbridge to Maidstone
  • Day Two: Maidstone to Rochester
• 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, 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 trails were included in this- South West Coast Path, Offas Dyke Path. Pennine Way, West Highland Way and the 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

Overseas

• Canary Islands
  • Fuerteventura
  • Gran Canaria campsites
• Menorca– the GR223- Camí de Cavalls
• Nijmegen Vierdagse (International Four Days Marches Nijmegen)
• Sicily