Saturday
18 July 2026
From Alnmouth to
Amble
distance: 7.9 km
total ascent: 120 m
total descent: 121 m
Terrain: Coastal
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday
19 July 2026
From Amble to
Newbiggin
distance: 12.6 km
total ascent: 77 m
total descent: 67 m
Terrain: Coastal
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
Monday
20 July 2026
From Newbiggin to
Cramlington
distance: 9.4 km
total ascent: 99 m
total descent: 67 m
Terrain: Towns, Fields
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Desmond Tutu
Tuesday
21 July 2026
From Cramlington to
Newcastle Upon Tyne
distance: 9.4 km
total ascent: 68 m
total descent: 76 m
Terrain: Town
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein
Wednesday
22 July 2026
From Newcastle Upon Tyne to
Chester-le-Street
distance: 10.3 km
total ascent: 155 m
total descent: 173 m
Terrain: Town
“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means.”
Dalai Lama
Thursday
23 July 2026
From Chester-le-Street to
Durham
distance: 7 km
total ascent: 136 m
total descent: 107 m
Terrain: Town/Fields
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
Jimmy Carter
Friday
24 July 2026
Rest day
Durham
total ascent: 0 m
total descent: 0 m
“There is no way to peace — peace is the way.”
A.J. Muste
Saturday
25 July 2026
From Durham to
Bishop Auckland
distance: 11 km
total ascent: 211 m
total descent: 184 m
Terrain: Town, Fields
“Peace is its own reward.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday
26 July 2026
From Bishop Auckland to
Darlington
distance: 12.6 km
total ascent: 170 m
total descent: 210 m
Terrain: Town, Fields
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Indira Gandhi
Monday
27 July 2026
From Darlington to
Richmond
distance: 13.5 km
total ascent: 314 m
total descent: 194 m
Terrain: Fields
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday
28 July 2026
Rest day
Richmond
total ascent: 0 m
total descent: 0 m
“Imagine all the people living life in peace.”
John Lennon
Wednesday
29 July 2026
From Richmond to
Middleham
distance: 12 km
total ascent: 342 m
total descent: 348 m
Terrain: Towns, Fields
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Thursday
30 July 2026
From Middleham to
Horsehouse
distance: 7.4 km
total ascent: 260 m
total descent: 155 m
Terrain: Fields, Roads
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
Buddha
Friday
31 July 2026
From Horsehouse to
Kettlewell
distance: 9.3 km
total ascent: 346 m
total descent: 397 m
Terrain: Fields, Roads
“I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.”
Cicero
Saturday
1 August 2026
From Kettlewell to
Malham
distance: 9.5 km
total ascent: 377 m
total descent: 350 m
Terrain: Fields
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
John Lennon
Sunday
2 August 2026
From Malham to
Skipton
distance: 11 km
total ascent: 204 m
total descent: 270 m
Terrain: Fields
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monday
3 August 2026
Rest day
Skipton
total ascent: 0 m
total descent: 0 m
“Peace is liberty in tranquility.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tuesday
4 August 2026
From Skipton to
Keighley
distance: 10 km
total ascent: 327 m
total descent: 341 m
Terrain: Town, Roads, Fields
“To reach peace, teach peace.”
Pope John Paul II
Wednesday
5 August 2026
From Keighley to
Hebden Bridge
distance: 12.2 km
total ascent: 660 m
total descent: 645 m
Terrain: Fields
“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
Thursday
6 August 2026
From Hebden Bridge to
Rochdale
distance: 13 km
total ascent: 490 m
total descent: 478 m
Terrain: Fields
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.”
John F. Kennedy
Friday
7 August 2026
From Rochdale to
Manchester city centre
distance: 12.5 km
total ascent: 111 m
total descent: 194 m
Terrain: Town, Roads
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
Dalai Lama
Saturday
8 August 2026
From Manchester city centre to
Stockport
distance: 9 km
total ascent: 129 m
total descent: 117 m
Terrain: Town, Roads
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday
9 August 2026
From Stockport to
New Mills
distance: 8.2 km
total ascent: 377 m
total descent: 289 m
Terrain: Town, Fields
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”