A pictorial guide to a walk over rights of way and areas of open access betweeen the Irish sea and the North Sea. The route passes through three national parks including the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York moors and provides a wide and varied range of superb scenery over a distance of 190 miles. The author describes the walk from west to east, the direction usually followed in order to have the prevailing weather coming from behind, although some walkers prefer to reverse the route and have the lake district as an exciting climax.