Coast to Coast Walk - Definition and Overview

The Coast to Coast Walk is a long distance footpath in Northern England. It starts on the west coast, at St Bees in Cumbria, and goes 190 miles to Robin Hood's Bay on the east coast. It crosses the Lake District, the Pennines and the North York Moors.

It was described by A. Wainwright in the early 1970s and uses existing footpaths. It is an unofficial and unsignposted route, and due to legal issues with certain stretches of the path, increased traffic on some of the road sections, and erosion, the exact route followed by Wainwright is not recommended.

The Coast to Coast Walk has become one of the most popular of all the Long-distance footpaths in the UK.