Friday

17 July 2026

Rest day

Alnmouth

“Peace begins with a smile.”

Mother Teresa

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.”

Mother Teresa