Top One-Day Hikes in the UK GEOFFREY WEBBER
Top One-Day Hikes in the UK
The UK is home to countless hiking trails of all shapes and sizes. These trails offer stunning scenery and gorgeous vistas, and the country has its fair share of challenging climbs too. When it comes to short, one-day trails, hikers in the UK are almost spoiled for choice.
THE GLYDERS, SNOWDONIA The Glyders is a 7-mile trail that is
OLD HARRY ROCKS, ISLE OF PURBECK
deceptively hard, but well worth the effort.
This 10-mile route across the Jurassic
The route takes hikers up the steep Devil’s
Coastline starts at Knoll Beach before
Kitchen, and onwards to the highest summit
heading south, towards Old Harry Rocks.
of the trail that sits at 1001m. From here,
On a sunny day, the white chalk of the rocks
hikers can head to the Castle of the Winds
contrasts perfectly with the blue sea, and
rock formation, before continuing onwards
the waves can be heard as they crash into
to the Glyder Fach summit and iconic
the caves.
Cantilever stone.
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