Pennine Way

The Pennine Way was Britain's first national trail, 411 km up the country's backbone from the Peak District to the Scottish border. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The preview on screen is the finished poster, and it ships straight away.

Make it yours: 17 art styles, 19 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

Giclée-printed at 300 dpi on 200 gsm matte art paper. Framed posters come in black, white or natural timber, ready to hang.

The preview is the finished poster. What you approve on screen is exactly what we print, with no proof to wait on.

The route

A rambler and journalist named Tom Stephenson first called for a long green trail up the spine of England in a 1935 newspaper article, and it took thirty years of campaigning before the path he imagined opened officially on Malham Moor in April 1965, the first of Britain's National Trails. The route crosses Kinder Scout, where several hundred walkers staged a mass trespass in 1932 to demand access to moorland closed off for grouse shooting; the organisers went to prison for it, and the protest helped push Parliament toward the national parks legislation that followed.

Most walkers cover the whole route in a little over two weeks, crossing peat bog and open fell in one push from the Peak District to the Scottish border, with limestone country breaking up the middle stretch. The trespassers never got to walk the trail their protest helped create; it opened more than three decades after they were sentenced.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Camino de Santiago, Coast to Coast and GR20 Corsica.

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