Talk:List of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom

message: Where's the Coast to Coast? ( http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/coasttocoast.html ).
Has it just been forgotten, or is it purposely not on the list because it's unofficial?
--David Edgar 07:47, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Added it. --David Edgar 10:33, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Coast to Coast?

message: Shouldn't this be included?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xjks (talk • contribs) 13:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Harcamlow Way?

message: Most entries also mention the county, others mention the start and end place names.  Is there a policy to be consistent and if so which is preferred? Nick1nildram 14:37, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Location info?

message: I would find information about which routes are waymarked very useful.  Any ideas about how to incorporate this into the existing article ? PeterGrecian 14:13, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Waymarked/Unwaymarked Routes 

message: This was an interesting exercise. I started with the restricted icon set, and just created the icons as I needed them. It is basically North South. I started putting in the towns/villages and immediately saw that paths avoid big settlements on principal eg Tunbridge Wells. But these can go into comment. Also, most settlements also have notable roads going through them- icon needed and created. The Canals red circle 'Feature to left or right' could be used but the green diamond seemed better for 'country features', and could be used to links to other paths. Using the code u uu d dd for the chevrons was not too bright as up can mean up hill or up the map. Water was a problem- straight lines are OK for canals and navigations but for small brooks and streams I just lifted an icon from BRÜCKE and Ctrl-D and Flipped. Many symbols converge at the nodes- towns, roads, rivers and crossing footpaths- so some must be artificially offset. There is a need for an altitude column but direction is superfluous. The header can be an infobox.
And now I am open to comments.
ClemRutter 19:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good. How about v vv n nn for chevrons, since they're not being used for anything else that I'm aware of? Here is the same thing with colour-neutral icons: User:Vagary/Footpath Icons. (Which are defined using arbitrary compositions at . My rivers could use some work...) Vagary 00:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rivers fine- they will combine nicely with Canals/UBahn symbols for any artist that wants to to do lacework with rivers. I don't like v vv n nn the n is too obtuse. I think that it needs to reflect the concept of ascending descending, as you noticed at Cuckmere I got them the wrong way round (now changed). As the editor is working from top to bottom of the sheet, he will know that if he is at a peak and must descent or a river and must ascend. I think that is easier than trying to remember that the pointed end of the n is the high point. (This also retains a German explanation- Aufsteigen to climb and darunter  meaning below. I know this may sound weird but as a German speaker, when I am typing in the Icon abbreviations such as KRZ and STR- it flips my thinking into German- and it is easier to mentally stay there!) So we can have a aa d dd. ClemRutter 19:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Multiple columns and expanding/contracting are both generalized to the templates shared between all WP:RDT subprojects, so it's up to individual footpath diagram editors to take them or leave them. The problem with initializing Aufsteigen for the chevrons is that 'a' is also used for Anfang; but I agree that semantic naming is preferable to syntactic naming (based on chevron shape). Doing compression like this is destined to be a pain in the ass, maybe we should just go with STRascend, STRdescend, STRstart, and STRend and be done with it. :( Vagary 20:10, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Footpath Icons

message: I've just been tweaking an article called Great Eastern Pingo Trail in Norfolk.  The 'official' website of the council calls it a long distance footpath -its 8 miles long. To me that's far too short  and I suspect others here may agree - but are we out of touch with the modern definition of a long walk?
As a second issue, there seems to be not UK category for walks other than long ones, so this articulate resides in Category:Hiking trails in Europe.  Do we need a category for day walks?--JBellis 12:43, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 50km is mentioned in a couple of places including Long-distance_footpaths_in_the_UK#Other_UK_long-distance_pathsas a cutoff for "long-distance".  See below for further reply.  PamD 14:52, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just how short can long be? 

message: Just to let you know that Leeds Country Way has been passed as a Good Article.  Are there any other paths which are GA, or even FA?  I had problems finding where to put it in the WP:GAC nominations page, would have used "Geography/Miscellaneous" if it had existed, went eventually for "Everyday life/Recreation/Miscellaneous".  PamD 09:30, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA long-distance path 

message: This began as a reply to the second point under "How long is long" above, but grew rather and seemed to merit a new heading as a topic for discussion:
Perhaps we need a category for recreational walking in the UK in general (of which long-distance paths could be a subcat).   Looking at :category:walking I wonder whether we should create :category:Walking in the UK, with a category note which points out that this is not about the sport of racewalking.  Subcats would include our own LDPs, and also the existing :category:Walking in London, and members of the category would be various short paths (such as Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, the first notable short walk which came to mind), UK walking organisations (eg Ramblers Association), and Hillwalking (which is exclusively UK in scope!) etc. This cat would be a subcat of :category:walking, and also of :Category:Visitor attractions in the United Kingdom (and anything on sport/recreation/leisure in UK, though I can't find such categories on a quick flip round). Any thoughts?  PamD 14:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New category "Walking in the UK" needed? 

message: Most paths in the UK are in :Category:Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom (or its sub-categories), which is a sub-category of :Category:Hiking trails in Europe.  But some are not, mostly because they are too short to be called long-distance.  They are scattered around in :Category:Recreational walks in England, :Category:Walking in London and :Category:Footpaths, none of which is in the hierarchy of categories below :Category:Hiking trails in Europe.  I suggest one of two things:
# Rename :Category:Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom :Category:Footpaths in the United Kingdom (with similar renaming of the sub-cats) and put everything in there (or its sub-cats)
# Create a new category :Category:Footpaths in the United Kingdom between :Category:Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom and :Category:Hiking trails in Europe, with sub-cats for England, Wales and Scotland, and put in there the categories for footpaths in individual counties, the recreational path pages, a new :Category:Footpaths in London and some of the pages now in :Category:Footpaths.  This would be analogous to the hierachy for categorization of US trails, and would be my preference.  This raises again the question raised above of what is "long-distance".  My thought is that the principle should be that long-distance paths are those used for multi-day walks.
Any views? --Mhockey (talk) 13:45, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Now done (option 2)--Mhockey (talk) 20:40, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorisation of footpaths 

message: Would there be any objections if I redrew the icons       & to match the watercourse on , which is consistent with the rest of the water icons set? Useddenim (talk) 22:05, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've the same thoughts so, like the famous sport clothing brand say; Just do it. --Civilspanaren (talk) 06:42, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Useddenim (talk) 21:54, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icons with water 

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message: Hi , please see this article Pennine Journey. The walk is annotated on OS Maps and I think the article is reasonably cited. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 22:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @The joy of all things Sorry: I was going on my knowledge of AW's book, and didn't even follow the link to check and discover its current status. Have self-reverted. Comes of looking at watchlist on a phone. Apologies. PamD 23:00, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  No worries, thanks for the revert. Happy editing. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 23:03, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pennine Journey