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Independent Walking Tours - Self Guided
On a self-guided walking holiday you follow the route without a guide, staying somewhere different each night. We arrange your accommodation along the trail and transport your luggage to your next night's accommodation.
All of our self-guided walks featured are way-marked and easy to follow with the aid of the guidebooks and maps provided.
You can start a self-guided walking holiday on any date you want. If you wish, you can extend the tour by adding extra nights for rest days or sightseeing.
What's Included
- Accommodation in comfortable hotels, country inns, family-run guesthouses and farmhouse bed and breakfast's along the trail, that have been carefully chosen for their warm and friendly welcome and the quality of their accommodation. We always book en-suite rooms with private bathrooms where they are available, but some, in the remoter areas where accommodation is limited, may not have private facilities.
- A traditional cooked breakfast. In keeping with the flexible nature of these tours we do not arrange lunches or evening meals for you. Packed lunches are available each day from your accommodation, although you may prefer to stop for lunch at an inn or café along the trail. Evening meals are available at your accommodation each night or from an inn nearby. Our trail notes describe the options available for your lunch and evening meal each day.
- Luggage transfer (one suitcase per person) between each overnight stop
- A comprehensive set (one per party) of maps with the route marked on and a guidebook describing the trail.
- Trail notes with a day-to-day itinerary, information on facilities and points of interest along the trail, what to bring in the way of clothing and personal kit and a contact telephone number in case you need any assistance.
SELF GUIDED WALKING HOLIDAYS – SCOTLAND
Great Glen Way
The Great Glen Way cuts diagonally across the Highlands of Scotland from the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea through some of the finest scenery in Scotland.
Total Distance 70 miles (112km)
Start/Finish Fort William/Inverness
ITGGW1 6 nights, 5 days walking $470
ITGGW2 7 nights, 6 days walking $$530
ITGGW3 8 nights, 7 days walking $570
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $46
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season March to October
West Highland Way
From Milngavie on the outskirts of Glasgow, this superb trail heads north through spectacular scenery that becomes more rugged with every step, to the foot of Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain, at Fort William in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.
Total distance 95 miles (152km)
Start/Finish Milngavie/Fort William
ITWHW1 8 nights, 7 days walking $580
ITWHW2 9 nights, 8 days walking $650
ITWHW3 10 nights, 9 days walking $730
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $46If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $15 per night
Season March to October
St Cuthbert's Way
This delightful walk links a number of places associated with the story of a 7th century saint who travelled widely on foot through Scotland and northern England spreading the Gospel and performing healing miracles. Beginning at Melrose in the Scottish Borders where the saint started his ministry and ending at Holy Island in England where he ended his days, the trail passes through scenery of great variety and beauty.
Total distance 62 miles (99km)
Start/Finish Melrose/Holy Island
ITCUTH1 6 nights, 5 days walking $455
ITCUTH2 7 nights, 6 days walking $515
ITCUTH3 8 nights, 7 days walking $580
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $46
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $25 per night
Season March to October
Speyside Way
The Speyside Way follows Scotland’s loveliest river from the Moray Firth to the foothills of the Cairngorm Mountains through the heart of malt whisky country. Following paths and disused railway trackbeds the trail passes through a beguiling mix of scenery: the wave-battered shores of the Moray Firth, rich farmland, mixed woodland, heather-clad hills and ancient Caledonian pine forests. Along the way it visits many attractive villages and small towns as well as sites of historical interest including stone circles, standing stones, pictish relics, imposing castles and ancient kirks. This beautiful corner of Scotland is also rich in a wide variety of wildlife, from dolphins at Spey Bay to Ospreys at Loch Garten. Other highlights include the opportunity to visit some of the most famous distilleries in Scotland including Machallan, Glenfiddich, Cardhu and Glenlivet.
Total distance 65 miles (104km)
Start/Finish Buckie/Aviemore Season: March to October
ITSPW1 6 nights, 5 days walking $455
ITSPW2 7 nights, 6 days walking $520
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
Single supplement: $20 per night.
SELF GUIDED WALKING HOLIDAYS – NORTHERN ENGLAND
Northumberland's Coastal Castles
Northumberland's coast is famous for its wild, unspoilt beauty with long beaches of golden sand, quaint little fishing villages and spectacular castles perched on rocky headlands. This delightful trail offers constantly changing views, rock pools to explore, historic monasteries and castles and abundant birdlife, with cormorants, kittiwakes, oystercatchers, fulmars, terns, and guillemots on the beach, islets and headlands. You are also likely to see seals.
Total distance 61 miles (97.5km)
Start/Finish Berwick-upon-Tweed/Amble
ITCOAC1 6 nights, 5 days walking $520
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $55
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $28 per night
Season All year
Hadrian's Wall
In AD 122 Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a wall across northern England to hold back the advancing Barbarians. Despite the depredations of the centuries, it remains the largest ancient monument in northern Europe, and the best way to appreciate it and the ruggedly beautiful countryside around it is to walk it, following in the footsteps of the Legionnaires.
Total distance Wallsend to Bowness on Solway: 84-miles (135km)
Start/Finish Wallsend/Bowness on Solway
ITHWWL1 7 nights, 6 days walking $545
ITHWWL2 8 nights, 7 days walking $620
ITHWWL3 9 nights, 8 days walking $695
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $46
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $17 per night
Lake District Short Breaks - Northern Lakes
During the nineteenth century, adventurous travellers journeyed by horse-drawn carriage through Borrowdale and onto Buttermere via the Honister Pass, before returning to Keswick through the Newlands Valley. This short trail through some of the finest mountain scenery in the Lake District is based on their route.
Total distance 31 miles (50km
Start/Finish Keswick/Keswick
ITNLSB1 4 nights, 3 days walking $330
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45.
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season All year
Coast to Coast
This famous trail crosses the north of England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea. The route passes through some of the most beautiful scenery in Britain; the rugged mountains of the Lake District, the rolling hills of the Pennines, the picturesque valleys and villages of the Yorkshire Dales and the heather moorland of the North York Moors, with some dramatic coastal scenery at each end.
Total distance 190-mile (304km)
Start/Finish St Bees/Robin Hoods Bay
ITCC1 13 nights, 12 days walking $940
ITCC2 14 nights, 13 days walking $1035
ITCC3 15 nights, 14 days walking $1089
ITCC4 16 nights, 15 days walking $1155
ITCC5 17 nights, 16 days walking $1199
ITCC6 18 nights, 17 days walking $1279
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $12 per night
Season March to October
Cumbria Way
This delightful trail through the heart of the Lake District passes through some of the finest scenery of this much loved area. It follows old packhorse tracks and paths along valleys and over passes and provides breathtaking mountain views without actually going to any of the summits.
Total distance 70-mile (112km)
Start/Finish Ulverston/Carlisle
ITCAW1 6 nights, 5 days walking $495
ITCAW2 7 nights, 6 days walking $570
ITCAW3 8 nights, 7 days walking $725
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $46
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $17 per night
Season March to October
Cleveland Way
The Cleveland Way is a horseshoe-shaped route around the edge of the North York Moors National Park. Beginning in the old market town of Helmsley, the trail follows the western escarpment of the North York Moors to meet the coast at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, and then takes in the whole of the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast to finish at the Victorian seaside town of Filey.
Total distance 110 miles (176km)
Start/Finish Helmsley/Filey
ITCL1 8 nights, 7 days walking $610
ITCL2 10 nights, 8 days walking $760
ITCL3 11 nights, 10 days walking $820
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45 per person.
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $15 per night
Season March to October
Dales Way
This popular trail runs through the heart of the Yorkshire Dales to the shores of Windermere in the Lake District.
Total distance 84 miles (135km)
Start/Finish Ilkley/Windermere
ITDW1 7 nights, 6 days walking $496
ITDW2 8 nights, 7 days walking $560
ITDW3 9 nights, 8 days walking $635
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45 per person
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $13 per night
Season March to October
Three Dales Way
This 32-mile (51km) circular trail through the idyllic valleys of Wharfedale, Littondale and Malhamdale in the southern Yorkshire Dales passes through some of the finest limestone scenery in the Yorkshire Dales.
Total distance 32 miles (51km)
Start/Finish Burnsall/Burnsall
IT3DW1 4 nights, 3 days walking $325
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $15 per night
Season All year
The Herriot Way
This delightful walk around the northern Yorkshire Dales of Wensleydale and Swaledale is based on a holiday taken by James Herriot with his son, which he described in his book 'James Herriot's Yorkshire'.
Total distance 52 miles (83km)
Start/Finish Hawes/Hawes
Tour Codes, Duration and Prices
ITHW1 5 nights, 4 days walking $365
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45 per person
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $12 per night
Season All year
SELF GUIDED WALKING HOLIDAYS – SOUTH OF ENGLAND
Wild Edric's Way
Wild Edric was a Saxon who resisted the attempts of William the Conqueror to tame the borderland between lowland England and mountainous Wales. This superb walk explores the varied and beautiful scenery of Shropshire's hill country where Wild Edric fought the Normans.
Total distance 49 miles (79km)
Start/Finish Church Stretton/Ludlow
ITWEW1 5 nights, 4 days walking $375
ITWEW2 6 nights, 5 days walking $445
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season All year
Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path
The 93-mile (149km) Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail combines two contrasting paths, each of which is a superb walk in its own right.
Total distance 93 miles (149km)
Start/Finish Knettishall Heath/Cromer
ITPWNC1 7 nights, 6 days walking $580
ITPWNC2 9 nights, 8 days walking $745
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season All year
Cotswold Way
This charming walk meanders along the western edge of the Cotswold Hills from the beautiful old 'wool' town of Chipping Campden to the historic city of Bath through a landscape of upland sheep pastures, rolling cornfields, steep escarpments with far-reaching views, woodland and sheltered valleys concealing picturesque villages built from mellow honey coloured stone.
Total distance 98 miles (157km)
Start/Finish Chipping Campden/Bath
ITCW1 8 nights, 7 days walking $650
ITCW2 9 nights, 8 days walking $735
ITCW3 11 nights, 10 days walking $870
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season All year
Circular Walks in the Cotswolds
We have devised four circular walking tours in the heart of the Cotswolds. They range in length from The Cotswold Villages Trail, which is a weeklong tour that seeks out the timeless villages and towns that are among the loveliest features of the area, to the Cotswolds Short Break a delightful two day walk through some of the finest countryside the Cotswolds has to offer.
Cotswold Village Trail
Total distance 66 miles (106km)
Start/Finish Moreton-in-Marsh/Moreton-in-Marsh
ITCV1 7 nights, 6 days walking $545
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $15 per night
Season All year
Cotswold Round
Total distance 51 miles (82km)
Start/Finish Moreton-in-Marsh/Moreton-in-Marsh
ITCR1 6 nights, 5 days walking $395
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $15 per night.
Season All year
Cotswold Highlights
Total distance 43 miles (69km)
Start/Finish Chipping Campden/Chipping Campden
Season All year
ITCH1 4 nights, 3 days walking $325
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45£28
Single supplement £17 per night
Cotswold Short Break
Total distance 26 miles (41.5km)
Start/Finish Bourton-on-the-Water/Bourton-on-the-Water
Rail stations Moreton-in-Marsh
Season All year
ITCB1 3 nights, 2 days walking $265
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
Single supplement: $ 17 per night
The Ridgeway
The Ridgeway runs from Avebury in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire. The trail follows part of an ancient track established by prehistoric man that stretched across the country from Dorset to Norfolk. It passes through two distinct landscapes. The Ridgeway has a long and rich history. Stone Age man left the long barrows at West Kennet, Wayland’s Smithy, and Whiteleaf Hill as well as the extraordinary stone circle at Avebury and Silbury Hill, the largest man-made mound in Europe. The Ridgeway was the main route for the Saxons and Vikings during their advances into Wessex.
Total distance 85 miles (137km)
Start/Finish Avebury/Ivinghoe Beacon
Season All year
ITRID1 7 nights, 6 days walking $580
ITRID2 9 nights, 8 days walking $745
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $46
Single supplement: $25 per night.
Isle of Wight Coast Path
Circumnavigating an island is always a rewarding experience and the 65-mile (104km) trail around the Isle of Wight's spectacular coastline, is especially satisfying.
Total distance 65 miles (104)
Start/Finish Ryde/Ryde
ITIOW1 5 nights, 4 days walking $396
ITIOW2 6 nights, 5 days walking $465
ITIOW3 7 nights, 6 days walking $530
ITIOW4 8 nights, 7 days walking $595
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45 per person
If you are travelling on your own, there is a single room supplement of $20 per night.
Season All year
Two Moors Way
The Two Moors Way links the National Parks of Dartmoor and Exmoor. Starting at Ivybridge on the southern edge of Dartmoor and finishing at Lynmouth on the northern coast of Exmoor it also crosses some beautiful mid-Devon countryside. It is a walk of stunning contrasts.
Total distance 89 miles (143km)
Start/Finish Ivybridge/Lynmouth
ITTM1 8 nights, 7 days walking $620
ITTM2 10 nights, 9 days walking $745
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $25 per night
Season March to October
Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset - The South West Coast Path
The South West Coast path is a spectacular 613-mile (987km) trail around the south-western tip of England. Beginning at Minehead in Somerset it follows the coast through Devon and Cornwall to Poole in Dorset. We have divided the trail into 9 sections to provide a selection of walking holidays ranging in length from 4 nights to 4 weeks or more.
North Devon
Total distance 85 miles (136km)
Start/Finish Minehead/Westward Ho!
ITND1 8 nights, 7 days walking $620
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season All year
Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast – North
Total distance 78 miles (125km)
Start/Finish Westwood Ho!/Padstow
Season: All year
ITCN1 7 nights, 6 days walking $530
ITCN2 9 nights, 8 days walking $685
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45.
Single supplement: $ 17 per night.
Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast – South
Total Distance 66 miles (105km)
Start/Finish Padstow/St Ives
Season: All year
ITCS1 6 nights, 5 days walking $470
ITCS2 7 nights, 6 days walking $555
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $48.
Single supplement: $17 per night
Far West of Cornwall
Total Distance 40 miles (64km)
Start/Finish St Ives/Penzance
Season: All year
ITFW1 4 nights, 3 days walking $325
ITFW2 5 nights, 4 days walking $410
ITFW3 7 nights, 6 days walking $555
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $48
Single supplement: $17 per night.
South West Cornwall
Total Distance 60 miles (96km)
Start/Finish Penzance/Falmouth
Season: All year
ITSW1 6 nights, 5 days walking $490
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $50
Single supplement: $20 per night
South Cornwall
Total Distance 76 miles (122km)
Start/Finish Falmouth/Plymouth
Rail Stations: Falmouth/Plymouth
Season: All year
ITSC1 7 nights, 6 days walking $645
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $50
Single supplement: $17 per night
South Devon
Total Distance 67 miles (107km)
Start/Finish Plymouth/Brixham
Season: All year
ITSD1 7 nights, 6 days walking $545
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45
Single supplement: $17 per night
East Devon
Total Distance 28 miles (45km)
Start/Finish Exmouth/Lyme Regis
Season All year
ITED1 4 nights, 3 days walking $330
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $50
Single supplement: $17 per night
Dorset
Total Distance 75 miles (120km)
Start/Finish Lyme Regis/Poole
Season: All year
ITDT1 7 nights, 6 days walking $545
ITDT2 8 nights, 7 days walking $630
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $50
Single supplement: $25 per night.
SELF GUIDED WALKING HOLIDAYS - WALES
Offa's Dyke Path
During the 8th century, King Offa of Mercia built a dyke to keep the marauding Welsh in the mountains to the west. In places this impressive earthwork is still visible as a high bank with a deep ditch alongside. Offa's Dyke Path runs from Chepstow on the Severn Estuary to Prestatyn on the coast of North Wales
Total distance 177 miles (283km)
Start/Finish Chepstow/Prestaty
ITODP1 13 nights, 12 days $965
ITODP2 14 nights, 13 days $1040
ITODP3 15 nights, 14 days $1115
ITODP4 16 nights, 15 days $1190
ITODP5 17 nights, 16 days $1265
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $50
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $25 per night
Season All year
Pembrokeshire Coast Path
This magnificent trail follows the coastline of the Pembrokeshire National Park through some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in Britain. For much of the time the path keeps to the clifftops, providing superb views of the cliffs, beaches and offshore stacks and islands with their abundant birdlife. Each turn in the path reveals something different - a little harbour, an attractive village, a Neolithic cromlech, Bronze Age standing stones, Iron Age promontory forts, a church or chapel of the Celtic saints and their followers and a castle built by the Norman invaders.
Pembrokeshire Coast Path
Total distance 114 miles (182.5km)
Start/Finish St Dogmael’s/Milford Haven
Season: All year
ITPC1 11 nights, 10 days walking $1150
ITPC2 13 nights, 12 days walking $1380
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $48
Single supplement: $20 per night.
North Pembrokeshire
Total distance 66 miles (106km)
Start/Finish St Dogmael's/St Davids
ITPCN1 7 nights, 6 days walking $540
ITPCN2 8 nights, 7 days walking $610
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $48
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season All year
South Pembrokeshire
Total distance 48 miles (77km) Start/Finish St Davids/Milford Haven
ITPCC1 5 nights, 4 days $380
ITPCC2 6 nights, 5 days $460
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $46
If you travel on you own, there is an additional charge of $20 per night
Season All year
St Davids Short Break
If you’ve only got two or three days, the coast path between Porthgain and Newgale is a beautiful walk, with spectacular scenery, colourful displays of wildflowers, abundant wildlife and several attractive fishing villages to explore. These short breaks are based in a comfortable guest house in the attractive little ‘city’ of St Davids, with transport provided to/from the start/finish of each days walk.
Total distance 26 miles (42km)
Start/Finish St Davids (Porthgain to Newgale)
Season: All year
ITSDSB1 3 nights, 2 days walking $265
ITSDSB2 4 nights, 3 days walking $355
Single supplement: $ 17 per night
Three Castles Walk
For four centuries following the conquest of 1066, the Normans sought to subdue the rebellious Welsh, building castles as they pushed further west into Wales. In the borderlands of Monmouthshire they built a triangle of castles to control the routes between England and Wales on this strategically important stretch of border country. The Three Castles Walk is a short circular trail linking the ‘Trilateral’ of Skenfrith, Grosmont and White Castles. The scenery of this secluded corner of the Welsh borders is superb - a lovely patchwork of low hills, hidden valleys, fields criss-crossed with hedgerows and small belts of woodland.
Three Castles Walk
Total distance 20 miles (32km)
Start/Finish White Castle, Llanvetherine
Season: All year
IT3C1 3 nights, 2 days walking $210
IT3C2 4 nights, 3 days walking $325
For rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $45.
SELF GUIDED WALKING HOLIDAYS IN IRELAND
The Kerry Way
Described as a walkers’ Ring of Kerry, the Kerry Way is a low-level circuit of the spectacular Iveragh Peninsula, a region of wild, natural beauty steeped in history and legend. The glorious scenery of lakes, mountains and glens, ancient oak woodlands and a rugged coastline of wave-battered cliffs, coves and islands combine with the unhurried pace of life and wonderful hospitality to provide a truly memorable experience.
Total distance 132 miles (211km)
Season: All year
ITKE1 11 nights, 9 days walking, 1 rest day $899
Price includes a rest day in Glenbeigh. For additional rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $50. Single supplement: $25 per night.
The Dingle Way
The Dingle Peninsula combines everything that is legendary about Ireland: a wild and remote coastline, rugged mountains and abundant reminders of Ireland’s rich history and culture. The Dingle Way makes a circuit of this enchanting corner of Ireland
Total distance: 112 miles (179km)
Season: All year
ITDN1 10 nights, 8 days walking, 1 rest day $820
Price includes a rest day in Dingle. For additional rest days along the trail, for each extra night add $50
Single supplement: $25 per night
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