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Pathfinder Guides
Jarrold Pathfinder Guides are the ideal companion for country walks throughout the British Isles. Clear and easy to follow directions are accompanied by detailed maps from Ordnance Survey and specially commissioned photographs. With many routes to choose from, there is a walk to suit everyone. From the Highlands of Scotland to the moors of Devon, Pathfinder Guides show you the way.
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Aberdeen & Royal Deeside (PFG)
The area covered in this guide is the part of north-east Scotland that lies between the Cairngorms and the sea.
Price: £11.99
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Brecon Beacons (PFG)
Within the boundaries of the Brecon Beacons National Park there are four separate mountain ranges, including the Black Mountains as well as the Beacons themselves.
Price: £11.99
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Cairngorms (PFG)
The Cairngorms cover about 300 sq miles. The variety of countryside provides a wide range of habitats for wildlife.
The routes include explorations of the pine-tree fringed Lochan Mor, and romantic Loch Muick, which was much loved by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In scenic contrast, there is also an ascent to the summit of Carn Daimh, part of the Speyside Way, with its splendid panorama of the countryside surrounding Glenlivet.
Price: £11.99
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Cambridgeshire and the Fens (PFG)
Often dismissed as flat and featureless, the waterlands of East Anglia offer great, and largely undiscovered, opportunities for any walker.With the tranquil riverside scenery, charming towns, villages and country houses, and the mesmerising beauty of the Fens, the area is rich in heritage, wildlife and history.
Price: £10.99
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Cardiff, Swansea and Gower (PFG)
Covering the old, traditional county of Glamorgan plus the western parts of Monmouthshire. There is much more to this region than coal mines and steel works. It is a fascinating and uniquely interesting area with superb and varied walking country that comprises a mixture of open moorland, steep hillsides, wooded valleys, fertile lowlands and a magnificent coastline
Price: £10.99
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Ceredigion (PFG)
Stretching from Eglwys-fach in the north to Cardigan in the south. The coastal towns and villages provide excellent bases for exploration on foot, from Aberporth to Tresaith to the long, sandy beach at Penbryn backed by sand dunes and woodland trails and Llangrannog, where a spectacular walk along the cliffs leads to the National Trust promontory at Ynys Lochtyn, and the popular traditional resort at New Quay.
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Cheshire (PFG)
Cheshire possesses a landscape of lush pastures and rich parklands, flowing rivers and attractive villages, along with quaint market towns and sandstone churches and has a large number of clearly-waymarked long distance routes, including the Wirral Way and the Sandstone and Gritstone Trails.
Price: £10.99
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Chilterns & Thames Valley (PFG)
An area characterised by beech woods and dry valleys, and these natural features are explored in the routes.
Price: £10.99
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Cornwall (PFG)
Cornwall's coastal path gives access to many of Britain's finest marine landscapes, and a great many of the walks in this guide utilise sections of the path, which is maintained to a high standard.
Price: £10.99
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Cotswold (PFG)
Exploring a combination of idyllic stone villages and small towns in gentle, rolling countryside.
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Dartmoor (PFG)
Much of central Dartmoor is an uninhabited wilderness almost free of villages, farms, trees and roads but it is of outstanding environmental value, functioning mainly as a stock-rearing area and as a military training ground.
Price: £10.99
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Dorset (PFG)
Dominating the landscape are the chalk downs open, sweeping, grassy uplands that stretch from the former forest lands of Cranborne Chase on the Wiltshire and Hampshire borders right across the middle of the county to the coast.
Price: £10.99
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Dumfries and Galloway (PFG)
The area is part of Scotland's border country a peaceful, unspoilt region that possesses a mild climate, a great variety of scenery and a rich historic legacy. The mountains of Dumfries and Galloway offer plenty of remote and challenging walking, with over 40 peaks that exceed 2000 feet. The highest of these, Merrick (2766ft/643m), is ascended on one of the walks.
Price: £11.99
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Durham, North Pennines and Tyne & Wear (PFG)
This walking guide covers both the Cumbrian and Durham sides of the North Pennines, a designated Area of Outstanding Beauty, and also extends eastwards across Durham to the North Sea Coast.
Price: £10.99
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Edinburgh and the Lothians (PFG)
The countryside around Edinburgh is ideal for walking a superb mixture of rolling hills, expansive moorland and attractive rivers, bounded by fertile lowlands and an impressive coastline. A walk through Edinburgh city centre allows the walker to contrast the hustle and bustle of the old town with the elegant ambience of the new town.
Price: £11.99
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Essex (PFG)
Although the county suffers from the same population and traffic pressures as the other Home Counties, there is still plenty of open, unspoilt countryside.
Price: £10.99
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Exmoor & the Quantocks (PFG)
Exmoor National Park comprises 265 square miles, of which about two-thirds lie in West Somerset and the remaining third in North Devon. The Quantocks, a distinctive broad-backed ridge almost 12 miles long, constitute a separate Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Price: £10.99
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Fort William and Glen Coe (PFG)
Fort William and Glen Coe encompass one of the greatest areas of sea and mountain landscape in Scotland, backed by some of the biggest and most demanding peaks. The area covered in this guide is roughly the historical area known as Lochaber. This is Scotland's fjord land, a drowned coastland with long sea arms wending far inland, and the walks range from Fort William at sea level to Ben Nevis, the highest summit in Britain.
The whole area is steeped in history, and its story is well told at local museums and information centres such as at Ballachulish, Kinlochleven and Glencoe.
Price: £11.99
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Glasgow, the Clyde Valley (PFG)
The Glasgow area has much to tempt walkers.
Ayrshire is predominantly a region of rolling hills and expansive moorlands with wide river valleys and lush pastures. In the south, many of the slopes are clothed with the conifer plantations of Carrick Forest, and there is plenty of fine walking in the hills among the numerous forest trails and on the slopes of the Ayr, Doon, Girvan and Stinchar valleys
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Hampshire & the New Forest (PFG)
The New Forest is Hampshire's crowning glory. Its ancient woods, heathlands and bogs make it important as one of the few remaining sanctuaries for some of Britain's rare wildlife and, of course, a haven for its famous wild ponies.
Price: £10.99
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Heart of England (PFG)
The walks in this guide cover Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and the Worcestershire half of Hereford and Worcester.
Price: £10.99
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Inverness, Loch Ness and the North East Highlands (PFG)
The area covered by this guide centres on Inverness, and extends north and east along the shores of the Moray Firth, and south and west to Fort Augustus and Glen Affric, encompassing Caithness, eastern Sutherland, Easter Ross, the Black Isle, Moray and the banks of Loch Ness.
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Kent (PFG)
Walkers in Kent enjoy a number of long-distance footpaths, including the North Downs Way, Wealdway, Pilgrims' Way and Greensand Way, and sections of them are incorporated into several walks in this guide
Price: £10.99
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Kyle of Lochalsh (PFG)
This guide is centred on Kyle of Lochalsh from where a bridge now links the mainland of Scotland to the Isle of Skye. All the walks begin within about an hour's travel by road from Kyle, and they range from easy coastal walks through crofting land to the high mountains of the Cuillin on Skye and Kintail.
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Lake District (PFG)
All the essential ingredients of a mountain landscape grandeur, beauty, ruggedness can be found in the Lake District, yet on a comparatively small scale, making the region welcoming rather than forbidding.
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More Lake District (PFG)
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Lancashire (PFG)
With its fen-like lowlands, its coastal scenery, the high fells of Bowland and the lush river valleys of the Ribble and Lune. Lancashire is a county of surprising diversity from its great Industrial heritage towns to its attractive, rural villages and its numerous historic monuments.
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Lincolnshire & the Wolds (PFG)
The second largest county in England, Lincolnshire offers a surprising diversity of landscape - rolling wolds, coastal reaches, marshlands with endless skies and wide and impressive vistas, interspersed with historic market towns, magnificent churches and, of course, the ancient cathedral city of Lincoln.
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Loch Lomond and the Trossachs (PFG)
The most demanding walk in this guide features a ridge walk with a total ascent in excess of 5000 ft !
However, the Ochil Hills, Loch Lomond and the West Highland Way are also included.
Price: £11.99
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In & Around London (PFG)
The walks in this guide are all within the circumference of the M25 motorway. Many people, including Londoners themselves, may be surprised by how much open, attractive and unspoilt countryside still survives in an area that is often thought to comprise little more than sprawling suburbs and congested roads.
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Mid Wales & the Marches (PFG)
The tranquil borderland of the Marches, offers a varied landscape truncated by rivers meandering to lowland plains. Limestone to the west and north of the old red sandstone of the Hereford Plain has given rise to exceptionally attractive hilly country with delightful, narrow valleys.
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Norfolk & Suffolk (PFG)
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North Wales, Snowdonia & Offa's Dyke (PFG)
Containing walks in the national park and extending eastwards to embrace the less well-known but highly attractive countryside of north-east Wales that lies between Snowdonia and the English border: the Berwyn Mountains, Mynydd Hiraethog, the Clwydian Hills, the Dee valley and the Vale of Clwyd.
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Nothumberland (PFG)
This collection of walks explores three sections of Hadrian's wall, including the two best-preserved and most interesting Roman forts and most dramatic stretches. There are also bracing hill walks in the Cheviots, coastal walks along the cliffs and beaches of the Berwickshire and Northumberland coasts, river valley walks, and routes through countryside featuring woodland, lochs and reservoirs. The historic abbeys of Kelso and Melrose are also featured.
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Oban, Mull and Kintyre (PFG)
There are a range of routes across different terrains, including a walk around the Isle of Iona, with its wealth of ancient monuments and superb beaches; Dunstaffnage Castle, near Oban; the Black Lochs of Kilvaree, a trio of mysterious-looking lochs to the south of Loch Etive; Ardcastle Wood by Loch Fyne, a favourite haunt of otters and an ascent up Ben More, the highest peak on Mull.
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Peak District (PFG)
The landscape varies dramatically, with plenty of places of interest such as Chatsworth House near Bakewell,
This guide contains routes through the White Peak area of the south, with pastoral countryside criss-crossed by drystone walling and scattered with idyllic villages such as Ashford in the Water, and more challenging walks in the rugged Dark Peak of the north, characterised by distinctive gritstone edges
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Pembrokeshire & Carmarthenshire (PFG)
The walks in this guide concentrate on the coast, especially using the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, their characters vary considerably, ranging from the splendid cliff scenery around the peninsula of Dinas Island and to the west of Port-Eynon Bay, to the wooded stretches between Saundersfoot and Tenby, and from the wild and lonely coast near Strumble Head to the sandy expanses of Rhossili Bay and the fine beaches of the Marloes peninsula.
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Perthshire, Angus and Fife (PFG)
Approaching the eastern part of central Scotland from the A9 north of Stirling, where the Grampians dominate the horizon, it appears at first glance to be mountain country. In fact much of the area is low-lying, with flat woodland and agricultural land bordered by gentle, rounded hills and an attractive North Sea coastline. There are also coastal walks around the Fife peninsula, with its waterfront villages, sheltered harbours and sandy beaches.
Price: £11.99
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Shakespeare Country (PFG)
The walks in this guide incorporate historic highlights such as Coughton Court, connected with the Gunpowder Plot, Wroxton Abbey and Charlecote Park landscaped by 'Capability' Brown and allegedly where Shakespeare was once caught poaching.
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Sherwood Forest & the East Midlands (PFG)
This guide contains a lengthy and varied route through the forest, romantically associated with both Robin Hood and Lord Byron. Other walks focus on the region's historic legacy, from Bosworth Battlefield to Southwell Minster and Althorp, ancestral home of the Spencers.
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Skye and the North West Highlands (PFG)
This guide covers a substantial area of Scotland's western seaboard. The southernmost walks are based on Gairloch and Torridon, while Sandwood Bay, the location of the most northern route, lies 75 miles to the north-east. The walks divide simply into mountain and coastal routes.
The crags and pinnacles of the Quirang, the Flowerdale Waterfalls, the Fairy Pools of Skye and Sandwood Bay are other local highlights featured in the walks.
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Snowdonia (PFG)
The mountains of Snowdonia make up most of Gywnedd, but the area also includes the island of Anglesey to the north and the Llyn Peninsula to the west. The guide contains a route up Snowdon itself, one of the easier of several alternatives, using the Pyg Track on the outward journey and the Miners' Track on the return.
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Somerset, Wiltshire & the Mendips (PFG)
Landscapes range from the breezy heights of the Mendips to the flat, watery meadows of the Somerset Levels, and from the rolling chalk uplands of the Marlborough Downs to the mudflats and sandy expanses that fringe the Bristol Channel coast. Walkers can experience a variety of such terrains in this guide.
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South Devon & Dartmoor (PFG)
This collection of walks complements Pathfinder Guide Dartmoor, an area justifiably acclaimed as the last great wilderness in Britain. There are walks across rolling downs, thickly wooded gorges and valleys and through thatch and granite villages.
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Suffolk (PFG)
There is a choice of coastal walks, including routes through Southwold, Shingle Street and Dingle Marshes. The 'Three Churches' walk on the Icknield Way Path has long been famous and is a fine way of sampling the scenery in the west of the country. There are also opportunities to see Sutton Hoo, Orford Castle and Benacre Broad RSPB reserve.
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Surrey & Sussex (PFG)
Despite the proximity of these counties to London, the M25 and Heathrow and Gatwick airports, walkers in many parts of the region may find themselves treading some of the quietest and loneliest footpaths in southern England.
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Vale of York and the Yorkshire Wolds (PFG)
Walks including the coastal drama of Flamborough Head, the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy and Beverley, with its majestic minster.
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Wye Valley & Forest of Dean (PFG)
This guide focuses on the middle and lower sections of the Wye Valley, roughly where the river leaves its upper reaches in mid-Wales to enter Herefordshire.
Price: £10.99
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Yorkshire Dales (PFG)
The routes here cover Nidderdale, Wharfedale and Swaledale as well as lesser-known dales, and include the unique natural features around Malham, the narrow gorge of the Strid and Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey, the 'Three Peaks' of Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent, Aysgarth Falls and the historic Settle-Carlisle railway.
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North York Moors (PFG)
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