The Coast to Coast Walk

Location : St Bees / Cleator / Ennerdale Bridge / Honister Pass / Borrowdale / Grasmere / Patterdale / Haweswater / Shap / Orton / Kirkby Stephen

In 1972 A Wainwright devised the Coast to Coast Walk, which traversed what he described as 'the grandest territory in the north of England'. The walk starts at St Bees on the West coast of Cumbria. It travels through Cleator, Ennerdale, Honister Pass, Rosthwaite, Grasmere, Patterdale, Haweswater, Shap, Orton, Kirkby Stephen, up to Nine Standards Rigg, then out of Cumbria.

At the junction of the main coast road with the minor road from St Bees to Moor Row.

Robin Hood's Bay 184 miles, St Bees 7 miles.
Sculpture of 'a walker' by Colin Telfer

The route then travels through the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the North York Moors National Park, heading towards Robin Hood's Bay on the East Coast of North Yorkshire.

Books on the Coast to Coast Walk
A Coast to Coast Walk - A Pictorial Guide	A Wainwright
Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk	A Wainwright/D Brabbs
Coast to Coast Walk	Paul Hannon
Coast to Coast	Ronald Turnbull
A Northern Coast to Coast Walk	Terry Marsh


The route is covered by 2 Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure maps OSL 33 - St Bees Head to Keld OSL 34 - Keld to Robin Hood's Bay

It is suggested that you buy Alfred Wainwright's classic pictorial guide to give yourself a feel for the walk and experience some of the writer's unique authority; then as your day-to-day guide, choose one of the more up-to-date writers who have followed in Wainwright's footsteps and revised the essential information.

The Youth Hostels Association operates an accommodation booking service,through which the entire walk can be booked in one go, many places being Youth Hostels, but where these are not available appropriate B&B's will be used.

A video of the Coast to Coast Walk, with AW and Eric Robson, originally produced for the BBC, is available from Striding Edge, a video company based in the Wasdale valley of Cumbria.