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If you are planning a coast to coast walk, what better way to plot your adventure than with a detailed escort route.
The Coast to Coast Walk can be an eye watering 192 miles, depending on the route you take. The route is not an official; rout and it remains mostly without signs along the way. This needs to be on your bucket list.
The Coast to Coast route was originally described by A.Wainwright in his 1973 book “A Coast to Coast Walk”.
Wainwright’s book describes the route in 12 stages, each of which ends at a settlement with at least some overnight accommodation nearby. If one stage is walked per day, with one or two rest days, the route makes a two-week holiday, and web logs of coast-to-coasters seem to indicate that this is the most common way of walking the route.
Coast to Coast Route Plan for the Best Escorts
We will take a look at the route from the West coast over to the East coast. The starting point should really be St Bees in Cumbria and the route ends at the North Sea in Robin Hood’s Bay.
Starting from Cumbria you can find some stunning girls near the St Bees area. From this quaint seaside town, the route follows the cliffs north for a few miles before turning inland to pass through the villages of Sandwith, Moor Row and Cleator in the West Cumberland Plain. It then climbs its first hill, and follows the Nannycatch valley before reaching Ennerdale Bridge.
The path goes up the valley of Ennerdale along the edge of Ennerdale Water and past the Black Sail Hut youth hostel.
It climbs alongside Loft Beck to the fells north of Great Gable, passes the disused slate workings and mountain tramway of Honister, and descends to Rosthwaite in Borrowdale.
To leave Borrowdale, the route passes Stonethwaite and follows the stream up to Greenup Edge, before travelling along the Helm Crag ridge and down to Grasmere village.
From Grasmere to the pass of Grisedale Hause. Here Wainwright offers a choice of three routes:
- The mountain of Helvellyn
- The mountain of St Sunday Crag
- An easier descent along Patterdale valley
The three options bring you to Patterdale village.
From Patterdale, a stiff climb leads to Angle Tarn and Kidsty Pike, the highest point on the walk. There is then a steep drop to Haweswater from where the route follows the north shore of the lake before leaving the Lake District and visiting Shap Abbey and the village of Shap itself.
From Shap the route crosses the limestone pavement of the Westmorland limestone plateau to the village of Orton, and on to Kirkby Stephen.
The route climbs to the Yorkshire border on the ridge of Nine Standards Rigg, from where moorland trails and upland streams lead down into Swaledale. To help mitigate the effects of erosion, there are alternative routes at different times of the year. At almost exactly its halfway point, the Coast to Coast crosses the Pennine Way at Keld.
After Keld, there is a choice of two routes, high (open and breezy), or low (riverside, with teashops and pubs), both of which lead to Reeth.
In lower Swaledale, the route passes Marrick Priory, through wooded hillside to the market town of Richmond.
After Richmond, the route runs close to the River Wiske (but is more direct) across the flat farming land of the Vale of Mowbray (the northern extension of the Vale of York) to the village of Danby Wiske, and on to Ingleby Cross.
The route then climbs up to the western edge of the North York Moors to join the Cleveland Way.
The route continues with the Cleveland Way and Lyke Wake Walk, crossing Urra Moor to Bloworth Crossing, where the Cleveland Way turns north and the Coast to Coast continues east on the trackbed of the dismantled Rosedale Railway (still coincident with the Lyke Wake Walk) to Blakey Ridge and the Lion Inn.
Next, the route continues around the head of Rosedale before parting ways with the Lyke Wake Walk at the Millenium Stone to skirt Great Fryup Dale before descending Glaisdale Rigg to the village of Glaisdale.
From there, a woodland path leads to Egton Bridge where the route follows an old toll road to Grosmont.
After a climb out of Grosmont, the route crosses Sleights Moor before dropping into Littlebeck Wood (with a hermitage carved out of a single boulder, and the Falling Foss waterfall). From there the route passes through Low and High Hawsker to the cliff tops of the east coast, where it rejoins the Cleveland Way.
The path then follows the coast southwards to the village of Robin Hood’s Bay.
Agencies Helping Plan Your Coast to Coast Adventure
If you have struggles to locate a suitable escort then you can get in touch with popular escort agencies in Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
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