This website has been designed to complement and support the Herriot Way guidebook “Walking the Herriot Way” by Stuart W. Greig. These pages provide a host of supplementary information that is just not possible to store and maintain in a printed guidebook, but is nevertheless very important to anyone considering walking the Herriot Way.
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The Walk
The guide book provides detailed walking descriptions for the 55 mile, circular trail in both directions (clockwise and anti-clockwise). It also includes 20 hand-drawn maps to help you navigate the route. Every stile, every gate, every change of direction is described so that you can be sure of walking the route with ease and confidence. …
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Printed Guide Book This traditional bound and printed guide book, is for clockwise walkers only. It contains all the information needed to plan and walk the route, including all the maps and route descriptions. Most baggage courier companies support a clockwise walk. The printed edition of the book is 126 pages, weighs approx. 120g and is …
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The walk, unlike most multi-day walks, is circular; the traditional start and end point being in Aysgarth in the heart of Wensleydale – possibly the most famous of all Yorkshire Dales. Location View The Herriot Way in a larger map Overview Map Clockwise If using the traditional starting location of Aysgarth, the route heads north …
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This page contains a number of different files that walkers may find useful when planning their Herriot Way walk. The page is divided into Clockwise files and Anti-clockwise files depending on which way round you will be walking. It is recommended that you right click the file icon and select “Save As…” (or whatever equivalent …
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9 comments
Bob dixon
18 April, 2013 at 4:03 pm (UTC 0)
Hi Stuart
I bought your book last year but have still to do the walk.I was interested in what you say about IPads as I have now bought the mini.Do I need to purchase something else off you to put it on the iPad .Also I was thinking about using it as a GPS I believe you can buy the attachment from companies like Bad Elf then download a mapping programme.Not that I would have a clue how to do it.
Bob
admin
18 April, 2013 at 4:38 pm (UTC 0)
Bob
The PDF files that I sent will work on an iPad or any other mobile device. You need to look at the relevant instructions manual / Google it to find out how to load them on to it.
The device will probably also provide GPS functionality, but like you said you will need a third party app to view maps on. Something like ViewRanger or RouteBuddy will do this for you. Both these products have iOS apps that will work on iPad / iPhone etc.
Hope that helps
Stuart
Noel Thomas
26 August, 2012 at 10:29 pm (UTC 0)
This book gave me the confidence to do my first multi day walk, it was so detailed i did’nt use
my maps at all. Just bought the second book By Stuart The Tributaries Walk, hoping to do it in October.
Chris
28 May, 2012 at 12:03 pm (UTC 0)
This book is fantastic and is a’ must have’ for this walk. The book was so easy to follow, keeping us on the right path. While I have no doubt we would have got between the four main points, your book took us along some paths that I don’t think we would have found. At times it felt you were the 5th member of our team!
For anyone thinking of doing the Herriot way – take this book!
Many thanks, Chris
Martha Higgins
8 May, 2012 at 11:04 am (UTC 0)
Stuart, your book is just fabulous!
I found it so detailed and with the maps I always felt confident and safe on the Herriot way, especially around those grouse butts where it can be really hard to see any path. I look forward to using it again another time.
Well done.
Emma
16 August, 2011 at 8:45 am (UTC 0)
We found the route description in particular really accurate, detailed and helpful. It would be really hard to get lost with it! The narrative also had some really interesting information about the area we were walking through.
Maren
5 July, 2011 at 9:01 pm (UTC 0)
I have to pay you a big compliment for your nice book. There’s a lot of work standing behind it and it shows from every page how much you care about the Herriot Way.
Gerard
19 October, 2010 at 1:15 pm (UTC 0)
Your book is so incredibly detailed, down to the last blade of grass and yet with the maps, you get a complete overview of the walk and only need to look at the text intermittently.
Susan
12 May, 2010 at 3:30 pm (UTC 0)
I wanted to say how good we found the book – it really is excellent. The accompanying maps are great and ensured we found our way through the grouse butts on Greets Hill! I cannot speak highly enough of your book. The narrative was excellent with many hidden gems of ‘inside information’. The attention to detail made it an invaluable guide
Thank you!