[2] The path continues past Askrigg to Tan Hill (where it enters the North Pennines AONB), Bowes and Tees High Force to Hexham.

[3] After Hexham it turns westwards along 21 miles (34 km) of Hadrian's Wall, before heading south at Greenhead to Alston, Appleby, Kirkby Stephen, and Garsdale.

[4] It then turns westwards through Grisedale and across the northern edge of Baugh Fell to Sedbergh, before heading south over Whernside and Ingleborough (with a dog-leg to Ingleton), and returning to Settle.

[8] Several Ordnance Survey maps are needed to complete the route (OL2: Yorkshire Dales southern and western areas, OL19: Howgill Fells & Upper Eden Valley, OL30: Yorkshire Dales northern and central areas, OL31: North Pennines, OL41: Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdal, OL43: Hadrian's Wall, and 307: Consett & Derwent Reservoir).

For he couldn't enlarge his boundaries without trampling on our friends....These then, were the days of crisis...[14] He meticulously detailed his route, which encourages the modern-day hiker to take the walk in an anticlockwise direction.