Friday
17 July 2026
Rest day
Alnmouth
“Peace begins with a smile.”
Mother Teresa
Saturday
18 July 2026
From Alnmouth to
Amble
distance: 9 mi
total ascent: 120 m
total descent: 121 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday
19 July 2026
From Amble to
Cresswell
distance: 9 mi
total ascent: 73 m
total descent: 73 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
Monday
20 July 2026
From Cresswell to
Blyth
distance: 11 mi
total ascent: 120 m
total descent: 136 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Desmond Tutu
Tuesday
21 July 2026
From Blyth to
Newcastle Upon Tyne
distance: 13 mi
total ascent: 113 m
total descent: 72 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“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: 10.5 mi
total ascent: 248 m
total descent: 236 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“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: 9 mi
total ascent: 204 m
total descent: 184 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“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
Meeting point
What3Words
“There is no way to peace — peace is the way.”
A.J. Muste
Saturday
25 July 2026
From Durham to
Fishburn
distance: 10 mi
total ascent: 229 m
total descent: 189 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“Peace is its own reward.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday
26 July 2026
From Fishburn to
Stockton
distance: 14 mi
total ascent: 107 m
total descent: 227 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Indira Gandhi
Monday
27 July 2026
From Stockton to
Kildale
distance: 13 mi
total ascent: 314 m
total descent: 194 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday
28 July 2026
From Kildale to
Lastingham
distance: 11 mi
total ascent: 344 m
total descent: 366 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“Imagine all the people living life in peace.”
John Lennon
Wednesday
29 July 2026
From Lastingham to
Beadlam
distance: 8.5 mi
total ascent: 350 m
total descent: 131 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Thursday
30 July 2026
From Beadlam to
Sherriff Hutton
distance: 15 mi
total ascent: 338 m
total descent: 108 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
Buddha
Friday
31 July 2026
From Sherriff Hutton to
York
distance: 13 mi
total ascent: 41 m
total descent: 68 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.”
Cicero
Saturday
1 August 2026
From York to
Tadcaster
distance: 12.5 mi
total ascent: 49 m
total descent: 60 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
John Lennon
Sunday
2 August 2026
From Tadcaster to
Leeds
distance: 11 mi
total ascent: 236 m
total descent: 142 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monday
3 August 2026
Rest day
Leeds
Meeting point
What3Words
“Peace is liberty in tranquility.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tuesday
4 August 2026
From Leeds to
Bradford
distance: 12 mi
total ascent: 327 m
total descent: 341 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“To reach peace, teach peace.”
Pope John Paul II
Wednesday
5 August 2026
From Bradford to
Hebden Bridge
distance: 14.5 mi
total ascent: 398 m
total descent: 445 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
Thursday
6 August 2026
From Hebden Bridge to
Rochdale
distance: 14 mi
total ascent: 203 m
total descent: 190 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“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: 14 mi
total ascent: 231 m
total descent: 332 m
Meeting point
What3Words
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
Dalai Lama
Saturday
8 August 2026
Rest day
Manchester city centre
Meeting point
What3Words
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday
9 August 2026
From Manchester to
Stockport
distance: 7.5 mi
total ascent: 99 m
total descent: 51 m
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”