Wondrous long-distance walks

Escape the crowds and discover 15 of the UK’s most spectacular multi-day hikes, from adventures through mountains and moors to beginner-friendly rambles along rivers and coasts

The Pennine Way was dreamed up by activist Tom Stephenson, who imagined that the route would be “a faint line on the Ordnance Maps, which the feet of grateful pilgrims would, with the passing years, engrave on the face of the land”