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.”