Walking The Wales Coast Path

This practical, pocket-sized guidebook is to the 870-mile Wales Coast Path. Describing the route in 57 daily stages from Chester to Chepstow, which can be adapted by walkers to suit their own abilities and preferred pace.

The coast path covers the entire Welsh coastline, linking historic castles, passing holiday resorts and traversing wild cliffs, and includes sections through two national parks, numerous AONBs and several areas of Heritage Coast.

There are notes of where accommodation and food and drink can be found, as well as details of public transport, local museums and visitor centres. The walking is mostly easy, but can be occasionally rugged and feature the odd short, steep ascent and descent as well as some remote stretches.

Paddy Dillon

Paddy Dillon is a prolific outdoor writer with over 60 guidebooks to his name, as well as more than a dozen booklets and brochures. He writes for a number of outdoor magazines and other publications, and produces material for tourism groups and other organisations. He lives near the Lake District and has walked in every county in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; writing about walks in every one of them. He has led guided walks and walked extensively in Europe, as well as in Nepal, Tibet, Africa and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US.