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

“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

“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

“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

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