List of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom
The following long-distance footpaths can be found in the United Kingdom:
England and Wales: National Trails
National Trails are distinguished by being maintained by the National Trails organization [1]. As of April 2005, there were fifteen such trails, mostly in England.
- Cleveland Way round the edge of the North York Moors National Park in England
- Cotswold Way in England
- Glyndŵr's Way in Wales
- Hadrian's Wall Path in England
- North Downs Way in England
- Offa's Dyke Path in Wales and England
- Peddar's Way in England
- Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales
- Pennine Bridleway in England
- Pennine Way in England and Scotland
- The Ridgeway in England
- South Downs Way in England
- South West Coast Path (South West Way) in England - the UK's longest
- Thames Path in England
- Yorkshire Wolds Way in England
Other UK long-distance paths
England
- 1066 Country Walk, East Sussex - 50 kilometers Pevensey Castle to Rye
- Abbeys Amble, North Yorkshire
- Abbot's Way (or Jobber's Path or sometimes Jobber's Cawse), an ancient path across Dartmoor
- Abbott's Hike, Cumbria
- Ainsty Bounds Walk, North Yorkshire, cicular from Tadcaster, 71 kilometers
- Angles Way, 123 kilometers - Norfolk
- Avon Valley Path, 54.5 kilometers Christchurch to Salisbury (Hampshire and Wiltshire)
- Avon Valley Walk, Stratford to Marlcliff
- Basingstoke Canal
- Beacon Way, 40 kilometers from West Bromwich to Gentleshaw (West Midlands/ Staffordshire [2])
- Bishop Bennet Way, 55 kilometers Beeston to Wirswall (Cheshire, Staffordhsire)
- Bournemouth Coast Path, Dorset and Hampshire
- Calderdale Way, West Yorkshire, circular from Greetland 80km
- Capital Ring, 115 kilometers, circular through inner London crossing the Thames at Richmond and Woolwich
- Celtic Way - runs from the west of Wales to Stonehenge and then heads south-west to Cornwall, a total of 1162 kilometers
- Centenary Way, Warwickshire - covers 158 kilometers from Kingsbury to Upper Quinton.
- Channel to Channel Path, Seaton to Watchet, 80 km
- Chiltern Way, 200 kilometer circular walk from Hemel Hempstead (275 kilometers with extensions).
- Cistercian Way, Grange-over-Sands to Roa Island (Cumbria) - 53km
- Clarendon Way, 38.5 kilometers from Salisbury to Winchester
- Coast to Coast, Devon, Wembury to Lynmouth 186km
- Coast to Coast Walk, 309 kilometers from St. Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire
- Coleridge Way, Nether Stowey to Porlock 58km (Somerset)
- Coventry Way - circumnavigates Coventry from a start point in Meriden - 64 kilometers
- Cumbria Coastal Way 241 kilometers from Silverdale in Lancashire to Gretna Green in southern Scotland.
- Cumbria Way, 112 kilometers from Ulverston to Carlisle
- D'Arcy Dalton Way, Wormleighton - Waylands Smithy 106km (Warwickshire, Oxfordshire)
- Dales Way, runs 126 kilometers from Bowness-on-Windermere to Ilkley with extensions to Leeds, Shipley and Harrogate
- Dartmoor Way, 139.5 kilometers around Dartmoor
- Devonshire Heartland Way - 69 kilometers from the Exe Valley to Okehampton
- Downs Link Path from the North Downs Way at Guildford to the South Downs Way at Steyning
- East Devon Way, 61 kilometers Exmouth to Lyme Regis
- Ebor Way, 112 kilometers from Ilkley to Helmsley (connecting the Dales Way to the Cleveland Way)
- Essex Way, Epping to Harwich, 130 kilometers
- Exe Valley Way, Devon - runs 72.5 kilometers from the River Exe extuary to Exmoor
- Fen Rivers Way, runs 98.5 kilometers Cambridge to King's Lynn
- Gloucestershire Way, 161 kilometers Chepstow to Twekesbury
- The Greater Ridgeway. This is the name used for the combined route of 583 kilometers crossing from Lyme Regis to the Hunstanton on The Wash following the Wessex Ridgeway, The Ridgeway National Trail, the Icknield Way and the Peddars Way National Trail.
- Greensand Way, Haslemere - Hamstreet 169km
- Hardy Way, Dorset and Wiltshire, 342 kilometers Higher Brockhampton - Stinsford
- Heart of England Way, Midlands - Milford to Bourton-on-the-Water 161km
- Hereward Way, Cambridgeshire
- High Weald Landscape Trail, running 145 kilometers from Horsham to Rye (West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent)
- Icknield Way, Bledlow to Knettishall Heath (206 kilometers)
- Isle of Wight Coastal Path, circular from Ryde 105km
- Itchen Way, Hampshire
- Jubilee Trail, Forde Abbey - Bokerley Dyke, 145 km
- Jurassic Way. 142 kilometers Banbury to Stamford
- King's Way, Winchester to Portchester
- Lancashire Coastal Way, Silverdale to Freckleton, 220.5 km
- Land's End Trail
- Lea Valley Walk, 80 kilometers from Leagrave to East India Dock in London.
- Leland Trail, Stourhead to Ham Hill
- Liberty Trail, 45 kilometers Ham Hill to Lyme Regis (Somerset, Dorset)
- Limestone Way, Derbyshire
- London Outer Orbital Path, 241 kilometers Erith to Rainham
- Lyke Wake Walk across the North York Moors
- Macmillan Way, Abbotsbury - Boston 464km (Dorset to Lincolnshire)
- Manifold Way, Staffordshire
- Marriott's Way, Norfolk
- Mendip Way, Uphill - Frome 80km
- Mercian Way
- Midshires Way, Princes Risborough - Stockport, 363 kilometers
- Monarch's Way, Worcester - Shoreham-by-Sea 984km
- Nar Valley Way, Norfolk - 54 kilometers King's Lynn to Gressenhall
- Nene Way, Badby to Sutton Bridge 177km
- North Norfolk Coastal Path, Norfolk
- Ouse Valley Way, Cambridgeshire
- Oxfordshire Way, Bourton-on-the-Water - Henley 105km
- Pappoos 1, from London to Cambridge and The Wash
- Pilgrims' Trail, Winchester to Portsmouth
- Pilgrims' Way, Winchester to Canterbury
- Quantock Greenway, a figure of 8 centred on Triscombe, northern loop is 31 km, southern loop 29 km
- Ribble Way, follows the River Ribble for 112.5 km
- River Parrett Trail, Somerset
- Sabrina Way, Hartington to Great Barrington
- Saints Way, Padstow - Fowey 42km
- Sandlings Walk, Ipswich to Southwold 96km
- Sarum Way, Wiltshire
- Saxon Shore Way, Gravesend - Hastings 261km
- Severn Way, Plynlimon - Bristol 360km
- Six Shires Circuit
- Soberton and Newtown Millennium Walk 2000, Hampshire
- Solent Way, Christchurch - Emsworth 112km
- Staffordshire Way, runs between Mow Cop and Kinver Edge
- Staunton Way, Hampshire
- Stour Valley Path, East Anglia, Newmarket to Manningtree 96km
- Stour Valley Walk, Kent
- Stour Valley Way, Dorset
- Strawberry Trail, Hampshire
- St. Cuthbert's Way, Melrose to Lindisfarne
- St. Swithuns Way, Winchester to Fareham
- Suffolk Coast and Heaths Path, Manningtree - Lowestoft 106km
- Sussex Border Path, Sussex
- Sussex Ouse Valley Way, 67.5 kilomteres Lower Beeding to Seaford
- Swans Way, Salcey Forest - Bledlow 104km through Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury Vale and Milton Keynes (borough))
- Tarka Trail, Devon - 2 separate circles from Barnstaple totalling 288km
- Tas Valley Way, Norfolk
- Test Way, Inkpen Beacon - Totton 70.5km through Hampshire and Wiltshire
- Three Castles Path, Windsor to Winchester, 96 kilometers (unwaymarked)
- Three Forests Way, 96 kilometers through Epping, Hainault and Hatfield forests on the borders of Essex and Greater London.
- Three Shires Way, East Anglia, Grafham Water to Salcey Forest 59.5 kilometers
- Trans Pennine Trail
- Two Moors Way, Devon - Ivybridge to Lynmouth 166km
- Vanguard Way, 107 kilometers Croydon to Newhaven
- Viking Way, Lincolnshire
- Wayfarers Walk, Hampshire
- Wealdway, Gravesend to Eastbourne 129km
- Weardale Way
- Weavers Way, Cromer - Great Yarmouth 90km
- Wessex Ridgeway, runs 219 kilometers from Marlborough to Lyme Regis.
- West Deane Way in the Vale of Taunton Deane, circular 72.5 kilometers
- West Devon Way - Okehampton to Plymouth, 58 km
- Wey South Path
- Wychavon Way, Droitwich Spa to Winchcombe 67km
- Wychwood Way, Oxfordshire, a circular route of 59.5 kilometers in the Royal Forest of Wychwood
Wales
- Anglesey Coast Path
- Cambrian Way, an unwaymarked 440 kilometer route from Cardiff to Conwy
- Cambrian & Lleyn Coast Path
- Ceredigion Coast Path - currently still being developped, so not all waymarked - 101 kilometers from Ynyslas to Cardigan
- Cistercian Way - circumnavigates Wales via its Cistercian Abbeys.
- Clwydian Way, 243 kilometers, circular from Prestatyn via Llangollen, Corwen and Denbigh
- North Wales Path
- Wye Valley Walk, Chepstow - Plynlimon 218km
Scotland
- Cape Wrath Trail
- The Cateran Trail, a circular 101 kilometer walk centred on Blairgowrie
- Central Scottish Way
- Cowal Way, runs 75 kilometers on the Cowal Peninsula from Portavadie to Ardgartan
- Fife Coastal Path, St. Andrews to Newport-on-Tay
- Reiver's Way
- St. Cuthbert's Way
- Water of Leith Walkway