Travel to and from the Pennine Way
Day 3 Standedge to Callis Bridge or Hebden Bridge
Day 4 Callis Bridge or Hebden Bridge to Ickornshaw
Day 5 Ickornshaw to Gargrave
Day 6 Gargrave to Malham
Day 7 Malham to Horton in Ribblesdale
Day 8 Horton in Ribblesdale to Hawes
Day 9 Hawes to Keld
Day 10 Keld to Baldersdale or Bowes
Day 11 Baldersdale or Bowes to Middleton-in-Teesdale
Day 12 Middleton-in-Teesdale to Langdon Beck
Day 13 Langdon Beck to Dufton
Day 14 Dufton to Alston
Day 15 Alston to Greenhead
Day 16 Greenhead to Housesteads
Day 17 Housesteads to Bellingham
Day 18 Bellingham to Byrness
Day 19 Byrness to Clennell Street
Day 20 Clennell Street to Kirk Yetholm
Appendix A Useful contacts
Appendix B Accommodation list
Appendix C Further reading
Rugged limestone pavements reach the edge of Malham Cove (Day 7)
ROUTE SUMMARY TABLE
Catrake Force is passed on the way out of Keld (Day 10)
PREFACE
Of all the many guidebooks I have written this one is the most personal. The Pennine Way is intricately bound up with my family history. I was born and raised only six miles from the Pennine Way and the route was opened when I was only seven years old. My family included some staunch walkers who used to talk about it from time to time. My Uncle Gerard walked the trail in its early years, returning with tales to inspire others. As young teenagers, a friend and I stumbled across a Pennine Way signpost on the moors and wondered how long it might take us to walk to Scotland. Soon afterwards, a chance copy of Alfred Wainwright’s Pennine Way Companion, laid it all out for me in black and white.
I could have walked the Pennine Way at the age of 16, but I chose to follow it northwards only as far as Cross Fell, then made a beeline for the Lake District, explored for a week and walked home via the Yorkshire Dales. I finally walked the whole route for the first time when I was 21,