The Pennine Way takes you to some of the highest and most remote moorland in England, where the weather can be severe. It will be best if you supplement your guide book with one of the maps available in our Bookshop. We offer a choice that will help keep you on course.

The Pennine Way is covered by nine Ordnance Survey Explorer maps, scaled 1:25,000. They are sheets OL1, OL21, OL2, OL30, OL31, OL43, OL42, OL16 and OL19. The maps are printed both sides, and this scale allows you to navigate in great detail; walls and hedges are shown, for example. The route is marked in Green Diamonds throughout. These maps are available in two editions:

Paper - they fold well, and are backed with a reasonably durable laminated cover. They will remain intact, depending on how much wind and rain you have encountered!

Lam-Fold - extra strong lamination with a 'china-graph' write-on, wipe-off surface they are also tear resistant and waterproof.

If you use the 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey Landranger maps you will nine maps; sheets 80; 86; 92; 91; 98; 103; 109; 110; 74.

1;50,000 is a good practical scale. The Pennine Way is marked and the detail is sufficient for most situations along this walk. This scale allows you a wide perspective, too, and this is especially useful for the many and varied viewpoints this walk offers.

Paper - they fold well, and are backed with a reasonably durable laminated cover. They will remain intact, depending on how much wind and rain you have encountered!

Lam-Fold - extra strong lamination with a 'china-graph' write-on, wipe-off surface they are also tear resistant and waterproof. They are however, a little bulkier than the 'wilderness' version.