Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pennine Way stretches for some 268 miles - Paul Thuysbaert/Getty Images Britain’s most famous national trail, the Pennine Way, ...

Walkers have completed a 40-mile (64km) trek in honour of the man widely regarded as the father of the Pennine Way. Tom Stephenson, from Whalley in Lancashire, dreamt in 1935 of creating a 268-mile ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Back before helicopter parenting was a thing, my brother and I and two pals took a train to the Peak District ...

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Britain's first national trail, the Pennine Way, celebrates its 50th anniversary on 24 April. Presenter Paul Rose took a journey along the "Backbone of England" and considered the post-war social ...

Fifty years ago, the UK's first long distance trail, the Pennine Way, was officially opened, stretching from Derbyshire to the Scottish Borders. It may never have opened at all but for the hard work ...

The Pennine Way served as a catalyst for similar long-distance footpaths across Britain (nearly a dozen were inaugurated over the next two decades), and by the 1970s there were estimated to be as many ...