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1 St Bees Ennerdale Bridge 22.9 14¼ A relatively flat introduction.  However we had to walk as far as Black Sail, because all the accommodation before this had been booked up.
2 Ennerdale Bridge Rosthwaite 23.3 14½ The first bit of steepness.
3 Rosthwaite Grasmere 28.6 17¾ The Ordnance Survey map suggests walking all the way to Patterdale in one day.  This is a very long way to walk in the Lake District over several large mountains, including possibly Helvellyn.  Stopping at Grasmere is a very good idea.
4 Grasmere Patterdale
5 Patterdale Shap 25.7 16 This is 2/3 Lake District terrain, and a long slog, but then there is no where to stop en route.
6 Shap Kirkby Stephen 31.0 19¼ The limestone plateau is easy going after the Lakes.
7 Kirkby Stephen Keld 18.9 11¾ Ascent up over Nine Riggs Standard, but quite easy.
8 Keld Reeth 18.1 11¼ 2 steep ascents.  The route is very easy to loose in the midst of all the spoil heaps.
9 Reeth Richmond 16.9 10½ The easiest section of all, unless you end up trying to ford the Swale by Marrick Abbey.
10 Richmond Ingleby Cross 37.0 23 Arrgh! Long, flat, boring!  An overnight stay at Danby Wiske might be a possibility.  The pub there has a book for Coast to Coast walkers to sign.  (My name isn't there because I only found out about it afterwards) The nearest Hostel is at Osmotherly, to the South, and not on the Ordnance Survey strip map.
11 Ingleby Cross Clay Bank Top 19.7 12¼ Easy.  The nearest accommodation is at Great Broughton, which again is not on the standard map.
12 Clay Bank Top Glaisdale 30.2 18¾ Long, but quite level moorland.
13 Glaisdale Robin Hood's Bay 30.6 19 More moorland
Despite what Wainwright says about walking with the weather to your back, I think that it would be better to do the walk in 'reverse'.  If you start at Robin Hood's Bay, then you get practice on the easy Moors, so that you will be fully fit when you reach the Lake District mountains.  Of course then you would only meet most other walkers only once.

Wainwright's Coast to Coast walk

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