5 Reasons to Chose This Trail Guide
Hiking the Coast to Coast
If you’re planning to walk the Coast to Coast path — in sunshine or storms — this guidebook will show you what the journey is really like. Alongside detailed route directions and hundreds of colour photographs, it features in-depth research articles and a full travelogue of the author’s first walk across England with his wife Carol. Honest, immersive, and grounded in real experience, it captures both the terrain and the emotion of the trail. Here are five good reasons to make it your walking companion
Carol resting by the monumental cairn on Thornthwaite Crag — a quiet moment during our fourth walk across England.
5 Reasons to Choose This Trail Guide
Sweat, Smile, Summit - High Crag View
A sun-drenched moment on the High Stile ridge: the author smiles from the shoulder of High Crag, overlooking Ennerdale Water with Crag Fell and Grike shrouded in mist behind. His soaked green-and-white striped shirt says it all — walking the Coast to Coast is an adventure that gets under the skin.
Reason 1: Descriptive Routes
Where Route-Finding Matters Most
A signpost rises from a vast blanket bog, marking three seasonal options on the Coast to Coast path. A flagged stone trail runs through deep mire, where the only certainty is the need for clear direction — the kind a good guidebook provides.
Reason 2: Step by Step
One Lake, One Day, One Step at a Time
Looking across Ennerdale Water on day 2 of the Coast to Coast walk. This early stretch marks the first of many step-by-step stages, each carefully mapped and described in the guidebook — from the Lakes to the North York Moors.
Reason 3: Research Articles
Echoes on the Heather Moor
A solitary High Bride Stone rises from the heathered moor — one of many ancient monuments passed by the Coast to Coast path. The guidebook includes research articles that uncover the hidden history of such standing stones, cairns, henges, mines, and natural reserves scattered along the route.
Reason 4: Mapping Galleries
Every Step, Mapped Clearly
The guidebook includes large-scale Google mapping for every stage of the Coast to Coast walk — clear, zoomable, and easy to follow. Each chapter is linked to an interactive version on our support website, giving you a detailed visual reference before and during your journey.
Reason 5: Support Website
The Walk, Mapped and Magnified
A view of the interactive Coast to Coast route on Google MyMaps, custom-built for readers of the guidebook. The support website hosts this detailed mapping tool alongside hundreds of research articles and in-house photography — offering readers practical help, background knowledge, and inspiration before, during, and after their walk.
The Book That Walks With You
“Hiking the Coast to Coast” is a digitally enhanced eBook, available exclusively from Apple Books for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Designed to accompany you on your walk, it includes interactive Google mapping, step-by-step directions, hundreds of high-resolution photographs, and detailed research notes covering the landmarks, landscapes, and history of the Coast to Coast path.
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