St. Akelda's Way
38 mile walk between Giggleswick and Middleham, in the Dales

St Alkelda’s Way wends through the beautiful, exhilarating and sometimes challenging scenery of the Yorkshire Dales National Park – a landscape of “hollow mountains”, caves, ‘shake’ and ‘swallow’ holes, and appearing and disappearing rivers. The Way follows a Roman pathway that St Alkelda must have taken on her journeys between the villages of Middleham (Wensleydale) and Giggleswick (Ribbesdale) around 900AD.

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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.

Itin A:   3D / 4N       £470 pp *

Day 1: Giggleswick to Kilnsey (15.6m), taxi to Kettlewell *
Day 2: Taxi to Kilnsey walk to Woodale (14.4m) *
Day 3: Woodale to Middleham (12.5m)

£565 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£470 per person (based on two sharing)
£445 per person (based on group of 3)
£430 per person (based on group of 4 or more)

* price includes taxi

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Itin B:   2D / 3N       £330 pp *

Day 1: Giggleswick to Kettlewell (20.6m)
Day 2: Kettlewell to Middleham (17.3m)

£385 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£330 per person (based on two sharing)
£315 per person (based on group of 3)
£305 per person (based on group of 4 or more)

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Itin C:   4D / 5N       £565 pp *

Day 1: Giggleswick to Malham (7.8m)
Day 2: Malham to Kilnsey (7.8m), taxi to Kettlewell *
Day 3: Taxi to Kilnsey walk to Woodale (14.4m) *
Day 4: Woodale to Middleham (12.5m)

£660 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£565 per person (based on two sharing)
£540 per person (based on group of 3)
£525 per person (based on group of 4 or more)

* price includes taxi

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* 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.

Itin A

£165 per person (single)
£85 per person (based on two people)
£60 per person (based on group of 3)
£45 per person (based on group of 4 or more)

Max 17kg per bag

Itin B

£110 per person (single)
£55 per person (based on two people)
£40 per person (based on group of 3)
£30 per person (based on group of 4 or more)

Max 17kg per bag

Itin C

£165 per person (single)
£85 per person (based on two people)
£45 per person (based on group of 3 or more)

Max 17kg per bag

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.

Walk Information

Rest Days
Rest days can be incorporated into any walking holiday package at an additional £65.00 per person per night

Solo Travellers
Solo travellers please contact us or use the booking form to send your proposed itinerary including dates, and we will price accordingly. Where possible, we take advantage of existing bookings from other clients to ensure you receive a cost effective service.

Alternative Itineraries
For alternative itineraries to those provided for this route, please contact us, or use the Booking Form to submit your proposed itinerary and number of participants and we will quote accordingly.

Walking Season Dates
Prices are based on the walk starting after 1st April and ending before 30th September.

Walk Information

“Walk through the spectacular Yorkshire Dales National Park amongst the Swaledale sheep, following a Roman pathway that St Alkelda must have taken on her journeys between the villages of Middleham (Wensleydale) and Giggleswick (Ribbesdale) around 900AD, both of which she is now the patron saint. Alkelda is remembered in these two localities as a saintly lady famous for her use of nearby holy wells for baptism and for her martyrdom at the hands of Danish women.

St Alkelda’s Way wends through the beautiful, exhilarating and sometimes challenging scenery of the Yorkshire Dales National Park – a landscape of “hollow mountains”, caves, ‘shake’ and ‘swallow’ holes, and appearing and disappearing rivers. The Dales are full of the contrasts of limestone and millstone thrown together by the upthrusts of the Craven Fault – a scenery fashioned by the dynamism of water and long-gone glaciers creating intriguing land formations and different plant life, trees, forests and vegetation. There is deep history both within the human-fashioned stone churches and their enigmatic ‘cross shafts’, and, of course, the rocks of the Dales. Stone crosses line the route, at which pilgrims of old would have prayed for safe passage, maybe even Alkelda herself.” The British Pilgrimage Trust.

www.stalkeldasway.info/welcome-to-st-alkeldas-way/

 

OS Explorer Maps
OL2 – Yorkshire Dales – Southern & Western areas
OL30 – Yorkshire Dales – Northern & Central areas

Mobile Digital Mapping
Digital maps can be viewed on most modern smartphones using an appropriate app, downloaded from the app store associated with your device. Brigantes recommend that whichever app you use, it should support Ordnance Survey 1:25k or 1:50k scale maps. There are many apps to choose from, but the two main providers are Ordnance Survey and Memory Map.

Each provider’s app has its own benefits, but both provide all-important offline navigation, meaning your device does not need a mobile signal to work effectively on the trail.

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  1. A fine traverse off the Dales expertly handled by Brigantes. Guide book on sale in Saint Alkeldas Giggleswick a great 4 day walk. Well done everybody.

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