End-to End (LEJOG) Itinerary
Our End-to-End (LEJOG) Itinerary outlines our route. These are the various places where we intend staying overnight:
Day 0 – Journey to Land’s End
Travel down to Cornwall – fly from Manchester to Exeter, taxi from airport to rail station, then a train to Penzance.
Collect our bikes and panniers from the cycle shop, then cycle over to Land’s End Youth Hostel.
We will be joined by Ian, another member of SCCC, who will travel with us as far as Cheddar.
Day 1 – Land’s End to Perranporth
Cycle to Lands End and then begin End-to-End (LEJOG) by cycling to Perranporth Youth Hostel, approx 47 miles.
Day 2 Perranporth to Boscastle
Cycle to Boscastle Youth Hostel, approx 43 miles.
Day 3 – Boscastle to Exford
Cycle to Exford Youth Hostel, approx 66 miles.
Day 4 – Exford to Cheddar
Cycle to Cheddar Youth Hostel, approx 50 miles
Day 5 – Rest Day
Rest day.
Day 6 – Cheddar to St Briavels
Cycle to St Briavels Youth Hostel, approx 49 miles.
Day 7 – St Briavels to Leominster
Cycle Leominster Youth Hostel, approx 42 miles.
Day 8 -Leominster to Shrewsbury Battlefields
Cycle to Shrewsbury Battlefield Travelodge, approx 44 miles.
Day 9 – Shrewsbury Battlefields to Widnes
Cycle to Widnes Travelodge, approx 58 miles.
Since we are reasonably close to home, we plan on inviting family and friends to come and join us for a meal at the Toby Carvery, just over the road from the Travelodge.
Day 10 – Widnes to Lancaster
Cycle to Lancaster Central Travelodge, approx 65 miles.
Day 11 – Lancaster to Windermere
Cycle to Windermere Youth Hostel, approx 36 miles.
Day 12 – Rest Day
Rest day.
Day 13 – Windermere to Carlisle
Cycle to Carlisle (M6 Jct44) Premier Inn, approx 43 miles.
Day 14 – Carlisle to Sanquhar
Cycle to Newark Farm in Sanquhar, approx 61 miles.
Day 15 – Sanquhar to Lochranza
Cycle to Lochranza Youth Hostel on the Isle of Arran, approx 65 miles.
Day 16 – Rest Day
Rest day. We will be joined today by five other members of SCCC who will cycle with us to Inverness.
Day 17 – Lochranza to Oban
Cycle to Oban Youth Hostel, approx 53 miles.
Day 18 – Oban to Glen Nevis
Cycle to Glen Nevis Youth Hostel, approx 39 miles.
Day 19 – Glen Nevis to Loch Ness
Cycle to Loch Ness Youth Hostel, approx 44 miles.
Day 20 – Loch Ness to Inverness
Cycle to Inverness Youth Hostel, approx 26 miles.
Day 21 – Inverness to Helmsdale
Cycle to Helmsdale Youth Hostel, approx 72 miles.
Day 22 – Helmsdale to John o’Groats and Wick
Cycle to John o’Groats and complete End-to-End (LEJOG).
Then cycle to Wick, approx 68 miles.
Stay at Bredalbane House Hotel and Nethercliffe Hotel.
Complete tour with an evening celebration.
Day 23 – Post tour
Drop bicycles and panniers off at the cycle shop (for packing and shipping home). Then fly from Wick to Edinburgh and on to Manchester. Finally, make our way home.
