Walks | Long Distance Paths

This page outlines the meaning and use of the term long distance paths on this site. The structure of the associated pages is also described and an update section reports progress regarding content loading.

Long Distance Path [LDP] infers that the walk may take some time and therefore more than a day. In practice LDP's come in all shapes and sizes, they are made up of stages [or segments] that will fit in a day. This notion goes back thousands of years when hunter gatherers and Neolithic people moved great distances from place to place. Some parts of our paths have their roots in those days.

On this site all walks that can be 100% completed in a day are referred to as a "Day Walk". See the Day Walks page here. These might be circular mountain or local walks.

Official or Make Your Own LDP?

The majority of the LDP reported here are officially recognised LDP either as National Trails eg Pennine Way, European Trails or defined/supported by some other body or association eg Calderdale Way. You can also "make your own LDP" and there will be more on this topic on the the Make Your Own LDP page [in future].

Occassionally some LDP are walked more than once and some stages many times. Walking a stage A to B may also be taken in the reverse direction ie B to A offering a different perspective.. Also on occassion it may be easier (or even the only possibility) to walk "out & back" due to limitations in transport arrangements.

Therefore all LDP have a "default direction" and we aim to complete a LDP using the same direction ie we walk the South West Coast Path "clockwise" from Poole to Minehead and the Pennine Way south to north.

The initial release of the site provides the basic framework of pages but little else at this stage, since the alpha release is primarily for initial testing purposes. The loading planned for 2021 is outlined in the About Page

There is a long distance path listing here. This is the only LDP material restored to date.