Holiday Packages
All our Standard Itineraries include:
- Hand-picked accommodation in B&Bs / guest houses / inns / small hotels
- En-suite facilities where available
- Breakfast
- Daily baggage transfers from our own team of local drivers
- All booking fees
We will also endeavour to include all these in any custom itinerary you wish to build for this walk.
Day 1: Skipton to Grassington (14.4m)
Day 2: Grassington to Buckden (12.1m)
Day 3: Buckden to Hawes (17.5m)
Day 4: Hawes to Kirkby Stephen (16.5m)
Day 5: Kirkby Stephen to Appleby (15.3m)
Day 6: Appleby to Penrith (19.9m)
£865 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£775 per person (based on two sharing)
Day 1: Skipton to Kettlewell (21.8m)
Day 2: Kettlewell to Bainbridge (18.2m)
Day 3: Bainbridge to Nateby (20.2m)
Day 4: Nateby to Appleby (16.8m)
Day 5: Appleby to Penrith (19.9m)
£760 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£675 per person (based on two sharing)
Day 1: Skipton to Grassington (14.4m)
Day 2: Grassington to Buckden (12.1m)
Day 3: Buckden to Bainbridge (13.8m)
Day 4: Bainbridge to Garsdale Head (11.9m)
Day 5: Garsdale Head to Kirkby Stephen (12.2m)
Day 6: Kirkby Stephen to Appleby (15.3m)
Day 7: Appleby to Penrith (19.9m)
£1,080 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£930 per person (based on two sharing)
Day 1: Skipton to Grassington (14.4m)
Day 2: Grassington to Buckden (12.1m)
Day 3: Buckden to Hawes (17.5m)
Day 4: Hawes to Nateby (15m)
Day 5: Nateby to Sandford (12.4m)
Day 6: Sandford to Temple Sowerby (14.5m)
Day 7: Temple Sowerby to Penrith (13.1m)
£990 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£885 per person (based on two sharing)
Day 1: Skipton to Hebden (12.8m)
Day 2: Hebden to Buckden (13.6m)
Day 3: Buckden to Bainbridge (13.8m)
Day 4: Bainbridge to Garsdale (11.9m)
Day 5: Garsdale to Kirkby Stephen (12.2m)
Day 6: Kirkby Stephen to Sandford (10.7m)
Day 7: Sandford to Temple Sowerby (14.6m)
Day 8: Temple Sowerby to Penrith (13.1m)
£1,205 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£1,040 per person (based on two sharing)
Day 1: Skipton to Burnsall (11.1m)
Day 2: Burnsall to Starbotton (12.7m)
Day 3: Starbotton to Bainbridge (16.3m)
Day 4: Bainbridge to Garsdale (11.9m)
Day 5: Garsdale to Nateby (10.7m)
Day 6: Nateby to Sandford (12.4m)
Day 7: Sandford to Appleby (5.1m)
Day 8: Appleby to Temple Sowerby (9.5m)
Day 9: Temple Sowerby to Penrith (13.1m)
£1,340 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£1,160 per person (based on two sharing)
Day 1: Skipton to Burnsall (11.1m)
Day 2: Burnsall to Starbotton (12.7m)
Day 3: Starbotton to Bainbridge (leaving path at Worton) (13.7m)
Day 4: Bainbridge to Hawes (via Worton) (9.1m)
Day 5: Hawes to Garsdale Head (6.9m)
Day 6: Garsdale to Nateby (10.7m)
Day 7: Nateby to Sandford (12.4m)
Day 8: Sandford to Long Marton (9.3m), taxi to Appleby*
Day 9: Taxi to Long Marton, walk to Temple Sowerby (5.3m)
Day 10: Temple Sowerby to Penrith (13.1m)
£1,585 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£1,330 per person (based on two sharing)
*price includes taxi
Day 1: Skipton to Burnsall (11.1m)
Day 2: Burnsall to Kettlewell (10.8m)
Day 3: Kettlewell to Buckden (4.4m)
Day 4: Buckden to Bainbridge (leaving path at Worton) (11.2m)
Day 5: Bainbridge to Hawes (from Worton) (9.1m)
Day 6: Hawes to Garsdale Head (6.9m)
Day 7: Garsdale to Nateby (10.7m)
Day 8: Nateby to Sandford (12.4m)
Day 9: Sandford to Long Marton (9.3m), taxi to Appleby*
Day 10: Taxi to Long Marton, walk to Temple Sowerby (5.3m)
Day 11: Temple Sowerby to Penrith (13.1m)
£1,710 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£1,440 per person (based on two sharing)
*price includes taxi
* All headline holiday prices are shown per person, based on two people sharing.
Baggage Transfer
Baggage Transfer is automatically included in the price of all our Walking Holiday packages.
These prices are for anyone planning their own holiday and just need bags moving from one stop to the next.
Note: If you are booking accommodation in an Airbnb, you must ensure that there will either be someone available to take collection/delivery of your bags or that they have appropriate, secure storage in the event that the proprietor is absent.
13 Replies to “Lady Anne’s Way”
We’ve used Brigantes for baggage transfer on a several walks now, most recently for the first two thirds of the Lady Anne walk. Communication is good and they are always reliable. We’ve booked our own accommodation so far, nevertheless our bags arrive safely. It’s a great walk and so far we’ve had no problems with the route, using Sheila Gordon’s guide book and the OS app. Hoping to complete the walk Nateby to Penrith early next year.
We walked Lady Anne’s Way in April, after a very wet winter. The start and finish at Skipton and Penrith are both served by a good train service.
The early sections are well signposted through spectacular Dales scenery from Wharfedale into Wensleydale. After Hawes, a steep climb leads to a high level track into Mallerstang and the Eden Valley. The scenery here is gentle pastures and river banks, but very boggy underfoot. Sheila Gordon’s excellent guide book becomes invaluable here, as waymarking is poor.
Added interest on this walk is the history of Lady Anne, and being able to visit her properties along the route, and her tomb in Appleby church.
Brigantes did their usual excellent job of providing good accommodation and moving luggage.
We have just returned from walking Lady Anne’s Way in the beginning of September heatwave. We walked it over 7 days and are glad that we did as the heat was certainty challenging! I would recommend using Sheila Gordon’s excellent guidebook and using the OS Maps App for detailed route finding along the way. Brigantes organised our accommodation and baggage transfer and all went without a hitch. We stayed in some great places that we would never have found on our own and the bags were always at our next stop before us. Many thanks to Annette and the team for your outstanding service.
It is essential to use the official guide book to navigate this very poorly way-marked route and be prepared to stop many times to check the accurate detailed instructions in the book. Brigantees accommodation planning and bag carrier service was excellent.
Yet again Brigantes have come up with a perfect package (I’ve been with them several times, and would again). As for the walk; if you like high level and river scenery, there’s plenty, but after Appleby rather a lot of farm tracks, stiles and field gates and close attention to finding the right gate or the correct side of a hedge to walk on. The guide was fine and never let me down, but it did need close attention. It was a good walk, though, and the Lady Anne story with so many of her properties to look out for, made it a very satisfying trek.
I am just back from walking the Lady Anne’s Way from Skipton to Penrith and I enjoyed it very much. As I had done on previous long distance walks (Dales Way in 2018 and Coast to Coast in 2019), I used Brigantes’ services for accommodation bookings and baggage transfers and, again, everything was perfect. I stayed in a variety of very nice places, I always had a good room with all required amenities, and my luggage followed me from place to place without a glitch. Many thanks to Brigantes for the excellent service.
We booked our accommodation for a six day post-Covid trip along the Lady Anne’s Way but opted to use the Brigantes luggage transfer service to lighten our rucksacks. Very glad we did. Before we set off we were impressed by Annette’s communication and organisation skills, and during our walk we were delighted with the reliable transfers by her drivers. Good value for money.
Contrary to my expectations, Lady Anne’s Way is not clearly way-marked throughout and some stone step stiles are tricky to spot at a distance. We guided a couple of lost walkers one afternoon from Pendragon Castle to Kirkby Stephen, so I suggest that it needs a fair degree of map reading ability to travel easily along some sections of the route. We used the large-scale maps in Sheila Gordon’s guidebook extensively but I found it helpful to double-check our exact position a couple of times with the excellent OS Maps app. I had loaded onto my phone.
All in all, it was an excellent enjoyable trip and I have already recommended it to several friends.
Stephen May 2021
Thank you to you and your baggage team for helping to make Lady Anne’s Way such a fantastic experience, another excellent adventure organised by you. You even laid on the weather Really good accommodation, especially as its not always easy to find dog friendly places. Beautiful walk, recommend mid May, the spring flowers were in abundance and the Hawthorn hedges dripping with blossom.
A good reliable reasonably priced baggage transfer company
We used the Brigantes bag carrying service when we walked the Howgills and Limestone Trail in September 2014. It’s a fantastic walk, one of the best we have done, and Brigantes ‘went the extra mile’ to tailor arrangements to suit our specific requirements. Their service was second to none (and we have used others) and they were so friendly and helpful that we had no hesitation in choosing them for our Lady Anne’s Way walk this September. Again we required some non-standard arrangements which were dealt with without fuss and our bags were always waiting for us when we arrived at our overnight stops. It’s a good walk with varied scenery and terrain – though the frequent and tricky gated stiles in some sections can be a little trying! Our best accommodation was, without doubt, The Old Croft House in Kirkby Stephen where we also enjoyed the finest food at the nearby Pennine Hotel.
We used Sheila Gordon’s guidebook which was faultless other than the fact that recent alterations at Calm Slate Farm (day 1), which is a huge ice cream parlour and children’s play park, forced us to seek guidance.
Thank you Brigantes you do an excellent job.
Thank you for your lovely post, we do our best to ensure all our clients are happy, and it is good to know that the extra time and effort we put in is appreciated. There are lots more walks for you to undertake, we are adding to the list on the website all the time, so we look forward to being of assistance again!
Just had a wonderful walk, only a little rain and fabulous watering holes but the people who made all this possible were Brigantes. They were definite, reliable and a delight to deal with. Bravo Brigantes!
Thank you Brigantes for moving our bags on The Lady Anne’s way, friendly and efficient. It is a walk I would highly recommend, the scenery and history both very enjoyable. It is a varied route with river walking, grassy farmland high level walking (Hawes area to Kirkby Stephen) with fantastic views, lovely villages and of course the various Castles and Halls that Lady Anne lived in and visited (in various state of ruin). We would recommend the official Guide Book by Sheila Gordon published by Skyware Press, the route description and maps are excellent and we would not have managed without it. A very enjoyable walk we would do again.
Kathryn and Neil Sep 2016