Hadrians wall walking tours

A Pennine Journey

In September 1938, A. Wainwright made a solitary walk through the Pennines. The following year he wrote up an account of this walk, which was eventually published in 1986 as ‘A Pennine Journey: the Story of a Long Walk’. The current walking route ‘A Pennine Journey’ is a recreation of Wainwright’s walk adapted for today’s roads and rights-of-way, taking a route that he might have chosen if he was planning it today. The route has been devised and a guide written by members of the Wainwright Society with maps and illustrations inspired by the work of the great AW. The route is 247 miles long and divided into 18 stages.

The Pennine Journey begins and ends at Settle in North Yorkshire, providing a challenging circular walk passing through the wonderful variety of terrain and scenery the north of England offers whilst touching on all the major rivers in the region. The route heads up the eastern side of the Pennines through the deli