INTRODUCTION - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 5

day, with expansive views across rolling moorland to cheer the spirit and
prepare for the final stage of the journey.
The concluding stage is as fitting as the first, and finds its way along
old toll roads, by way of ancient burial mounds, across tracts of heather
moorland, through ancient, time-worn villages, delightful woodland, until,
at the very end, the walker is faced, as he or she was in the beginning,
with an exhilarating clifftop walk to the beauty that is Robin Hood's Bay.
The Coast to Coast Walk is, as Keats observed:
'A thing of beauty…
A joy for ever…'
Make sure you experience it.
DISTANCES AND HEIGHT GAIN
To ensure accuracy when giving distances and height gain, detailed meas-
urements have been made using OS Explorer Maps, at a scale of 1:25,000,
where necessary measuring distances at 100-metre intervals, and calcu-
lating vertical heights to within five metres. Any lack of precision resulting
from this is unlikely to cause distress to walkers accustomed to regular
outings over mountain and moorland terrain.
USING THE GUIDE
Following this introduction, the guide is divided into three main sections.
The first gives the route description, from west to east, annotated as ap-
propriate with notes of geological, historical, industrial, sociological and
natural history interest. The second section gives the route description
only in an east-to-west direction, cross-referenced to the west-east de-
scription for explanations of points of interest or comment. The final sec-
tion comprises the appendices, bibliography and index.