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. Thirteen completed to date, however I doubt I’ll 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
• 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
• Speyside Way– A Scottish Great Trail
• The Tabular Hills Walk
• 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