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Maps and Guidebooks Overall route The Land's End to John O'Groats Walk The End to End Trail by Andy Robinson (Cicerone, 2007): lots of helpful guidance, with detailed maps to show routes between long distance paths. There are a few updates and corrections here. Land's End to John O'Groats by Mike Salter (Folly Publications, 2006): lighter (76 pages) and more reasonably priced than the other guides, with some interesting variations on the usual routes. Land's End to John O' Groats: A Choice of
Footpaths for Walking the Length of Britain The UK Trailwalker's Handbook Long Distance Path Chart (Harvey, 2002): now a little out of date, but useful for overall planning. For a comparison between the routes taken by the three guidebooks currently in print, see my page on planning your route. If you are interested in walking end to end by road, in the quickest possible time, this book will help you: John O' Groats to Lands End, by Brian Smailes (Challenge Publications, 2004) Detailed Guidebooks The South West Coast Path Guide (South West Coast Path Association, annually): up to date and includes details of accommodation. SWCP Reverse Guide (South West Coast Path Association, 2006): the only guide written from Land's End to Minehead. Cornwall Coast Path: Bude to Falmouth Macmillan Way West (Macmillan Way Association, 2001) and supplements: field by field guide, but written for those walking from east to west. Obtainable from http://www.macmillanway.org. Heart of England Way (Recreational Path
Guides) The Pennine Way: A Practical Guide for
Walkers by Martin Collins (Cicerone, 2003): includes OS
strip maps. I heard some moans about the National Trail Guides (Pennine Way South and Pennine Way North), its main and
less compact competitor. The new Trailblazer guide (The Pennine Way Pennine Way Companion Scottish Hill Tracks: Walking Guidebook to
Long Distance Walking Routes on Tracks and Rights of Way in Scotland Maps On grounds of cost and weight, I mostly used Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 maps, except where I already owned the relevant 1:25,000 map. For the Heart of England Way, I relied on the maps in the guidebook, because of the number of sheets needed for the full maps, but that was a nuisance when I had to leave the route to find accommodation. For the Pennine Way, it would not be wise to rely solely on the maps in the guidebooks, particularly on the higher peaks where the route is not obvious (e.g. Bleaklow, Cross Fell). I used these maps: OS 1:50,000 (Landranger) OS 1:25,000 (Explorer) Websites Long
Distance Paths Published accounts of End to End Walks From John O' Groats to Land's End There is a fuller bibliography here. A film First and Last: a 1989 TV film of a fictional LEJOG walk, written by Michael Frayn and starring Joss Ackland. Sadly not available commercially.
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by Andrew
McCloy (Cordee, 2002): the only end-to-end guidebook out there when I
walked.
, by Andrew
McCloy (Coronet Books, 1995) - sadly now out of print, but gives more
detail on alternative routes than McCloy's later book. 
(Cicerone, 2009, a revision of the Long Distance Walkers' Handbook): brief descriptions of named paths, with
details of further information available. Updated information is
available on the
by Edith
Schofield (Trailblazer, 2006): I found the detailed sketch maps very
useful, even though I was walking in the "wrong" direction. (I used the
previous edition, which only covered Padstow to Falmouth.)
by Richard
Sale (Aurum Press, 1998): includes OS strip maps. Hard to track down.
by Carter and
de la Biliere) came out too late for me to use, but seems better than
both.
by A
Wainwright (Frances Lincoln, 2004): last revised in 1994, so not
reliable for route finding. A book to reminisce and chuckle over after
the trip.
(Scottish
Rights of Way Society, 2004): indispensable for long distance walking
in Scotland.
: 203, 200,
190, 193, 183, 173, 164, 128, 80, 74, 73, 65, 58, 52, 43, 36, 35, 26,
21, 17, 12
by John and
Robert Naylor. An account of a walk in 1871, published in 1916
(republished in 2007) and also available online