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Celtic
Trails Walking Holidays
Independent
self-guided and guided walking holidays with luggage transfer
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Celtic
Trails want to give you the best walking holiday in Britain you
can have.
Your
walking holiday will take you along the very best of National
Trails and Long-Distance Paths through Wales, Scotland, England
and Ireland.
Walking
ancient Celtic trails and old drovers routes you can choose from
spectacular Coastal paths, Coast- to-Coast walks, Island circuits,
and easy hill and mountain routes, where you will meet few other
people.
We make no apologies if you won't find every
walking route in Britain here. We know our walking routes intimately,
and have avoided walks with unacceptably high levels of road walking,
viewless conifer-lined trails, or featureless routes with little
to stimulate the senses.
You
are offered a selection of walking holidays which will give you
the most rewarding walking experience.
Walk
at your own pace, guided by our detailed route notes and maps,
and enjoy the sense of freedom travelling on foot through peaceful
landscapes, your senses re-awakened by the scenery and sounds
of the countryside around you
We
only use the very best accommodation, of it’s type, available
in each of the areas you will walk through. Nothing is left to
chance, we plan in intricate detail - so you don’t need to.
Celtic Trails . . . . . . . .
. . . . . That little bit more
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Walking
Holiday Breaks
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Three Castles Walk
Walking from Castle to Castle is
the perfect walking break and antidote for modern day pressures.
Here you will escape into the tranquility of this quiet
and little known corner of Monmouthshire, where rural life
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Dee Valley Walk This
excellent walking holiday break follows the course
of the River Dee, a beautiful salmon river snaking
through pastoral riverside and hillside landscape,
in Wales’s quiet rural Borderlands.
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The
Coleridge Way
A
walking holiday break on the Coleridge Way takes you
through the stunning Somerset countryside of the Quantock
Hills, the Brendon Hills of Exmoor, a landscape that
inspired the poet Coleridge to produce some of his
best known work.
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Wales
is part of the United Kingdom but separate from England. It is an ancient Celtic country, a people, a culture, a language, a little known part of a Britain that has remained different and unspoilt.
Known in its own language as Cymru, ‘the Land of Comrades’, towards a million of its people speak Cymraeg, Welsh, the language of the Celts and one of the world’s
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Cornwall This
spectacular guided walking holiday leads you around Cornwall,
and the southernmost edge of the British Isles. The beautiful
land was one of the first areas settled in by the Celts and
shares its unique ancient culture and language 'kernew' with
that of Celtic Wales and Brittany.
For
romantics, Cornwall historically has a long tradition of smugglers,
shipwrecks, and pirates.
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Anglesey,
Ynys Môn Coastal Path
falls within a designated Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty (AONB) which covers 95% of the
coast. It passes through landscape that includes
a mixture of farmland, coastal heath, dunes,
salt-marsh, foreshore, cliffs and a few small
pockets of woodland. This includes a National
Nature Reserve(NNR).
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Cambrian
Way Walking Holidays The Cambrian
way is the classic High Route across Wales, a challenging
274 mile (440 km) Coast-to-Coast walk from Cardiff
on the south coast to Conwy on the north. The route
crosses areas of mainly remote mountains, hills and
valleys, mile upon mile of unspoilt nature from the
Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons, through the Cambrian
Mountains to the spectacular mountain ranges of the
Snowdonia National Park.
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Carreg
Trust Christian Retreats
on Bardsey Island. Carreg Trust formed by a
group of Christians who believe that God is
calling us to preserve and develop it as a place
of contemplation and prayer. A place for both
guided and individual retreats and above all
a place set apart for peace and development
of the inner life.
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Bardsey
Island - Ynys Enlli "Gateway to
Heaven"
The aims of the Bardsey Island Trust are:
* to protect the wildlife and delicate ecosystem
of the island
* to encourage people to visit the island as
a place of natural beauty and pilgrimage
* to undertake scientific study and educational
programmes
* to protect the buildings and archaeological
sites
* to promote the artistic and cultural life
of the island
* to engage in farming to benefit the island’s
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Glyndwrs
Way Walking Holidays is an outstanding
132 mile (212km) walking route that runs through some
of the finest unspoilt scenery in Mid-Wales. The trail
is named after Owain Glyndwr, the legendary Welsh
leader who led a successful revolt against English
domination in 1400.
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North
Wales Path winds
for 60 miles along the coast from Bangor to Prestatyn,
mostly along public
footpaths. It takes you to traditional seaside resorts
which you can reach from the path, and also gives
you stunning mountain and coastal views. Near Prestatyn
the route follows the Prestatyn Dyserth Way, a 2
2/3
mile former railway. Between the Prestatyn Dyserth
and the Offas Dyke Path National Trail, Bishopswood
is an SSSi, and the limestone hill Graig Fawr is
owned
by the National Trust. Some of the most stunning
views on the path come from Little Ormes Head, where
you
can look over Snowdonia, and the top of the cliffs
of Great Ormes Head – 680 feet high and popular
with climbers.
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Offas
Dyke Path Walking Holidays One of the
earliest of the National Trails this renowned long
distance footpath must rate as the best walk in Britain.
The 177 mile (285km) route extends from the top to
the bottom coast of Wales and follows an 8C earthwork
built by King Offa sometime between 756 and 796 to
contain marauding Welsh tribes.
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Pembrokeshire
Coast Path Walking Holidays The Path
twists and turns its way around this dramatic coast
following the entire Pembrokeshire coastline for 143
miles/ 299 km. It is an unforgettable experience walking
along cliff tops, enjoying the wild and spectacular
coastal scenery ~ spring flowers carpeting the cliffs,
beaches, fishing villages and offshore islands with
their wealth of marine and bird life.
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Wye
Valley Walk Walking Holidays is an
easy grade continuous walking trail that follows the
river valley from Chepstow to Rhayader and continuing
to its source near Pumlumon in the hills above Aberystwyth.
The 136 mile (218km) route criss-crosses the lower
border between Wales and England through a wonderful
variety of scenery.
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Isle
of Arran Coastal Way,
is a walking holiday around the Isle of Arran, the most
southerly of
the collection of Scotland’s beautiful Western Isles.
Only 12 miles from the mainland across the Firth of the
Clyde, within easy reach of Glasgow, a Walking Holiday
on
the Arran Coastal Way on the beautiful Isle of Arran is
a world away from the busy Scottish mainland.
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Great
Glen Way The Great Glen Way leads from
the popular hiking centre of Fort William, near the foot
of Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, diagonally northwards
to the self-proclaimed 'capital of the Highlands', Inverness,
linking the Atlantic Ocean on the north coast of Scotland
and the North Sea on the east coast.
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Rob
Roy Way Scotland’s
most infamous outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor, roamed the Southern
Highlands
of Scotland during the latter part of the 17th and early
part of the 18th Centuries. Now you can trace the legend
of this famed Scot and his clansmen on the Rob Roy Way,
a walk of some 80 or 90 miles from Drymen to Pitlochry,
depending on your personal route of choice.
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St
Cuthberts Way Walking Holidays St
Cuthbert’s
Way provides an immensley enjoyable walking holiday through
the beautiful Scottish border countryside. Walking St Cuthberts
Way traces the footsteps of the 7th century saint who spread
the Gospel through Scotland and northern England, performing
many healing miracles along his way.
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Speyside
Way is one of four official Long Distance
Routes in Scotland (the others are the West
Highland Way, the Southern Upland Way and
the Great Glen Way). It was first opened
in 1981, to run from Spey Bay to Ballindalloch,
with a spur to Tomintoul being added in 1990.
A northern extension from Spey Bay to Buckie
followed in 1999, with the route finally
being completed between Ballindalloch and
Aviemore in April 2000.
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Southern
Upland Way Opened in 1984, the Southern
Upland Way is Scotland's longest walk and Britain's first
official coast to coast long distance footpath , beating
a trail of some 212 miles (340 kms) from Portpatrick on
the south west coast of Scotland, to Cockburnspath's North
Sea coastline in the east.
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West
Highland Way Scotland’s most popular
trail, the West Highland Way is a challenging 95 mile (152
km) walk from Milngavie, near Glasgow, Scotland's largest
city, leading northwards to Fort William, beneath Ben Nevis,
Britain’s highest mountain.
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Coleridge
Way A walking holiday break on the Coleridge Way takes you through the stunning Somerset countryside of the Quantock Hills, the Brendon Hills of Exmoor, a landscape that inspired the poet Coleridge to produce some of his best known work.
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Cotswold
Way Walking Holidays A
walking holiday in the Cotswolds conjures up a vision of
honey coloured
stone, unspoilt pretty villages, rolling green hills and
cultivated upland landscape of the “wolds” the
old English word for rolling hills |
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Cumbria
Way Walking Holidays A
walking holiday along the Cumbria Way in our opinion rates
as the best inn-to-inn walking holiday in England, a trail
we never tire of. The Cumbria Way goes from Ulveston on
the edge of Morecambe Bay on England’s northwest coast,
to Carlisle near the borders of Scotland. The 75 mile route
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Way Walking Holidays The Dales Way leads
across some of the most splendid countryside in the Yorkshire
Dales National Park and ends on the shores of Britain's
largest lake, Windermere, at Bowness in the romantic Lake
District. |
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Wall Path Walking Holidays Walking Hadrian's
Wall, you follow the route of 2nd century Roman legions,
on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian to build a 73 mile,
coast-to-coast barrier across England at its narrowest point
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of Man Coastal Path - Raad ny Foillan Walking Holidays.
Your walking holiday follows the Raad ny Foillan,
a 95 miles trail around the beautiful and dramatic
Manx coast. Largely following the coastline it also
takes you through a variety of different Manx terrain
which from shingle beaches at the Ayres, over 600
foot hills and cliffs above the Sloc, and the coastal
sward at Scarlett.
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Isle
of Wight Coast Path A
60 mile route tracing the spectacular coastline of
the largest island
off mainland Britain, the Isle of Wight Coastal Path
takes in a variety of stunning scenery, including
the island's landmark white chalk and sandstone cliffs,
the famed chalk stacks of ‘The Needles’, beautiful
beaches, sheltered estuaries, marshlands and various
'chines', a name unique to Isle of Wight and Dorset
given to wooded or dry ravines.
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Jersey ‘Around
Island Walk’ The
Landscape is very diverse, heather covered
cliff paths with fantastic
views of the other Channel Islands in the north to sloping
sandy bays in the south, the wilder west
coast which is
a surfer’s paradise to green country lanes and the
rockier marine environment on the island’s east coast.
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Peddars
Way and Norfolk Coast Path Although two
separate paths, the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path form
one National Trail, combining centuries of history with
some of the finest and varied scenery in the East Anglia
region of England.
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Saints
Way Walking Holidays A Walking holiday
on the Saints Way has everything that Cornwall has to offer.
It is the region's premier mid-distance footpath across
the south west peninsula from coast to coast..
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South
West Coast Path Britain's longest and,
arguably most spectacular National Trail, the South West
Coast Path is a 630-mile (1,008km) trail rounding the south-western
tip of England from Minehead in Somerset through Devon and
Cornwall to Poole in Dorset.
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St
Cuthberts Way Walking Holidays St
Cuthbert’s
Way provides an immensley enjoyable walking holiday through
the beautiful Scottish border countryside. Walking St Cuthberts
Way traces the footsteps of the 7th century saint who spread
the Gospel through Scotland and northern England, performing
many healing miracles along his way.
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Tarka
Trail Walking Holidays The Tarka Trail
is a looping figure of eight footpath of over 180 miles/280
km in length through the beautiful North and Mid Devon countryside,
tracing the travels of Henry Williamson's much loved `Tarka
the Otter' depicted in his best-selling 1927 novel.
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Moors Way Walking Holidays Walking the
Two Moors Way you follow the oldest regional footpath in
Devon, linking the two beautiful National Parks of Dartmoor
and Exmoor.
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Dingle
Way Walking Holidays ~ The Dingle Way, Sli Chorca Dhuibhne.
Is a diverse and beautiful Celtic walking trail, A
walking
holiday over the Dingle Way is full of surprises for
those who wander its paths - you'll encounter panoramic
vistas of sea, mountain and islands, a profusion of
unique birds, plants and unspoiled landscape, and an
astonishing array of ancient sites spanning 6000 years.
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Kerry
Way Walking Holidays ~
The Kerry Way is a walking holiday which meanders through beautiful Irelands largest peninsula, Iveragh and has been called Irelands's finest walking route.
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Jersey ‘Around
Island Walk’ The
Landscape is very diverse, heather covered
cliff paths with fantastic
views of the other Channel Islands in the north to sloping
sandy bays in the south, the wilder west
coast which is
a surfer’s paradise to green country lanes and the
rockier marine environment on the island’s east coast.
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Trails - that little bit more
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