Aktobe Regional University named after zhubanov
Faculty of philology
Department of English and German
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Coast to Coast (Inside Out)
Group: AO 202
Prepared By: Murat Meruert
Accepted By:Nurmanova Shynar
Aqtobe 2022
Coast to Coast
The Coast to Coast Walk is a 182-mile (293 km) unofficial and mostly
unsignposted long-distance footpath between the west and east coasts of Northern
England. Devised by Alfred Wainwright,[2] it passes through three
contrasting national parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire
Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park.
Wainwright recommends that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St
Bees and, at the end of the walk, in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay.
The Coast to Coast was originally described by Alfred Wainwright in his 1973
book A Coast to Coast Walk. Wainwright's book has since been revised a number
of times in recent years (most recently in 2003) with updates to the recommended
route.
Wainwright's book describes the route in 12 stages, each of which ends at a
settlement with at least some overnight accommodation nearby. If one stage is
walked per day, with one or two rest days, the route makes a two-week holiday,
and web logs of coast-to-coasters seem to indicate that this is the most common
way of walking the route. However, Wainwright explicitly states that he did not
intend people to necessarily stick to these daily stages, or even to his route. For
instance, the majority of Wainwright's stages start and end at low level with a
single up-down during the day: many walkers split the Borrowdale–Patterdale
stage at Grasmere in order to maintain this pattern and avoid having two major
uphill sections in one day. Splitting two or three more of the longer stages, and
adding a further one or two rest days, reduces the average day-length to 10 or 12
miles and makes the walk a much easier three-week trip with time to "stand and
stare", an activity much approved of by Wainwright.
Although unofficial, the Coast to Coast Walk uses public rights of way (public
footpaths, tracks, and minor roads), permissive paths and access land; it is one of
the most popular of all the long-distance footpaths in the UK. Despite this it does
not have National Trail status. In 2004 the walk was named as the second-best
walk in the world according to a survey of experts.[3] Harveys publish two
dedicated strip maps at 1:40,000 scale.
Tradition dictates that walkers should start the route on St Bees beach by getting
ones feet wet and collecting a pebble. The walk should end in a similar fashion,
wetting feet and depositing the pebble on the beach at Robin Hood's Bay.