UK Walking Holidays from Sherpa Expeditions

Sherpa Expeditions are the walking holidays experts. Founded 35 years ago they have continually adapted and adjusted to the needs of their clients - providing walking and cycling holidays to over 25 countries. They are proud to present their seventeenth year of walking holidays in Britain.

Their walks offer an eclectic mix of rocky coastline, rolling hillsides and/or craggy mountains. Their aim is to include all the elements that make up this green and pleasant isle, including perhaps the opportunity to visit a castle, some gardens, have a cream tea, a great pint of ale or even an armful of fish and chips wrapped in paper!

They design independent walks that enable the visitor to sample the countryside and the history of Britain. Their routes bring alive the descriptions of writers like William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Boswell and Johnson. You may visit places where Roman legions marched and fierce battles were waged, perhaps walking on an ancient cattle drover's route over the hills to market. On every tour there is at least in part, great historical interest as well as natural beauty. Most but not all of the walks, follow at least in part, sections of the reasonably well maintained long distance paths or National Trails whose concept and history has origins in the Great Trespass Movement of the 1930s.

Dramatic scenery, castles, historic churches nestled amongst wild flowers, sleepy villages, sunshine and rain: these are all integral parts of walking in Britain.

• Coast to Coast Across England Walking Holiday with Sherpa Expeditions
• Dorset & Wessex Trails Walking Holiday with Sherpa Expeditions
• Cornish Coastal Path, England Walking Holiday with Sherpa Expeditions
• The West Highland Way Walking Holiday in Scotland with Sherpa Expeditions
• Dales Way Walking Holiday - Yorkshire, England with Sherpa Expeditions
• St Cuthbert's Way Walking Holiday - Scotland to England
• Hadrians Wall Walking Holiday, England with Sherpa Expeditions
• The South Downs Way Walking Holiday - England with Sherpa Expeditions
• The Cleveland Way Walking Holiday - England with Sherpa Expeditions
• The Cotswolds Walking Holiday - Heart of England with Sherpa Expeditions
• Offa's Dyke Walking Holiday in England & Wales with Sherpa Expeditions
• Walking Holiday in the Heart of Scotland - The Great Glen Way

Self-guided Flexibility
There are no fixed departure dates - you can travel any day, walking for as long as you choose. You walk unescorted from inn to inn, with the freedom to set your own pace. Build in extra days for sightseeing/relaxing!

British Weather...
...Is unpredictable to say the least although if you study the forecasts and the way that depressions move in the UK, it becomes more predictable!! Generally between April and October it is more dry than wet, with temperatures (again generally) 16-28 degrees Celsius (60-80 degrees Fahrenheit) at sea level. However, Britain has frontal weather and you can have spells of rain lasting a day or so. Mountains generate their own weather, and with wind-chill mild temperatures at sea level can be bitterly cold at 2000 ft.

Mountain walks and those in the western and northern parts of Britain receive much more rain than walks to the south and east, though strangely often when the weather in Scotland is good, it is bad in England! However it is more often the reverse.

The important thing is to come prepared and carry a reasonable ensemble of waterproofs, warm clothing and rugged footwear, even if it unlikely that you need it.

If the weather is bad on some tours it may be possible for you to prearrange travel to the next night stop with your baggage where you can enjoy non-walking activities. If this is not possible you will need to rely either on public transport or a taxi.