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THE MISSING NATIONAL TRAIL
Tens of thousands of keen walkers complete the route each year. It’s brought economic revival to many small communities along the way. It was recently voted number two in the international league table of long distance trails. Only one long walk in New Zealand outdid it. But in Britain it’s officially regarded as being in the second division. It hasn’t been given the status and investment that comes with being a National Trail. ‘It’ is, of course, Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk – 190 miles from St Bee’s Head on the Irish Sea to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea. Along the way it crosses the Lake District and the Pennines into Swaledale and ends with a traverse of the Cleveland Hills and the North York Moors. Alfred Wainwright devised it in 1972 and The Wainwright Society believes that 34 years of adventure and enjoyment and hard slog should have been quite enough time for the powers that be to realise it’s there and worthy of inclusion in the family of National Trails. So we’re asking for your support. The Wainwright Society and Striding Edge, which produces the DVD of the walk, are launching a campaign to have the Coast to Coast officially recognised. To add your name to the on-line petition visit below. If you’d prefer to register your interest by post write to: Coast to Coast Campaign We’ll be launching the campaign on September 1st and will hope to deliver the petition to Natural England (soon to absorb the work of the Countryside Agency which manages National Trails) early in January 2007. As Wainwright himself said in the introduction to his guide to the walk “One should always have a definite objective, in a walk as in life.” Together let’s make our definite objective getting the Coast to Coast the recognition it undoubtedly deserves. |
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