Cleveland Way, 110 miles, in North Yorkshire
*Cotswold Way, 102 miles, in central England
*Coast to Coast Walk, 197 miles, in Cumbria and North Yorkshire
England Coast Path, 2,795 miles
*Glyndŵr's Way, 135 miles, in Powys, mid-Wales
*Hadrian's Wall Path, 84 miles, in Northumberland, Cumbria
North Downs Way, 153 miles, in southeastern England
Offa's Dyke Path, 177 miles, along the Wales-England border
Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path, 97 miles, in Suffolk and Norfolk
Pembrokeshire Coast Path, 186 miles, in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales
Pennine Bridleway, 205 miles, in the Pennines of northern England
*Pennine Way, 267 miles, in the Pennines and southern Scotland
The Ridgeway, 87 miles, in the Berkshire Downs of southern England
South Downs Way, 100 miles, southern England
South West Coast Path, 630 miles, through Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, and Dorset
Thames Path, 184 miles, southern England
Yorkshire Wolds Way, 79 miles, Yorkshire
Then there are the Scottish Great Trails—29 of them, ranging from 28 to 214 miles and including one I've already done, the exquisite West Highland Way (96 miles).
And the Wikipedia article on long-distance paths in the UK lists several hundred more. There is no shortage of places to walk!
In fact, it's all a bit overwhelm-ing—and so I took recourse in Google and the qualifier "best," which pointed me to an article in Travel & Leisure magazine: "10 Most Beautiful Walking Paths in the UK—with Views of the Seaside, Snowcapped Peaks, and Mystical Glens." Now we're talking. Five of the ten are National Trails (signaled with asterisks in the above list); the five others are the Quiraing, Isle of Skye, and West Highland Way, in Scotland; the Causeway Coast Way, Country Antrim, and Slieve Binnian, County Down, in Northern Ireland; and the Wales Coast Path.Or here are "10 Great Walking Trails Where You Won't See Another Soul."
At this point, I'm betting Offa wins. I'd be perfectly happy with that. We'll see what happens.
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