London to Glasgow walk
Dennis Hollywood is raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support
Participants: Gemma Porter (girlfriend) Beverley Mann (mum)
Story
I have had to watch Cancer affect many family members, friends and loved ones already too many times in my short life time and Macmillan have helped many of them throught their times.
With my youth and health on my sides there has never been a more perfect time to endevour on such a challenge,so i did. The walk itself has had many ups and downs up till now and i'm not just talking about all the hills. The Pennine Way was an amazing expirence and hope to do sections of it again. Some views will be stuck in my head for years to come. The whole walk was between 6 and 7 hundred miles and some days i was walking up to 9 hours a day trying to cover as much ground as possible.
Many nights i have been exhausted and was in tremendous pain but i have finally finish and all the blisters have been worth while. I arrived in George Square, Glasgow with a crowd of over 40 people including STV (Scottish TV) with a camera who interviwed me and i was included in the news in Scotland. I have also been interviwed by a few radio stations in and around Glasgow.
The walk started on th 17th July 2009 from Centre Point, London and i arrived in George Square, Glasgow 37 days later on the 22nd August 2009.
The table below maps out the days of my journey, the majority of which are along the two long distance national trails; The Heart of England Way and The Pennine Way.
DAY
FROM TO MILES CUM. MILES 1 London (Centre Point) Slough 22 22 2 Slough High Wycombe 13 35 3 High Wycombe Thame 14 49 4 Thame Oxford 14 63 5 Oxford Charlbury 16 79 6 Charlbury Moreton-in-marsh 16 95 7 Moreton-in-marsh Mickleton 10 105 8 Mickleton Alcester 15 120 9 Alcester Chadwick end 16 136 10 Chadwick end Shustoke 11 147 11 Shustoke Drayton Bassett 16 163 12 Drayton Bassett Castle ring 16 179 13 Castle ring Uttoxter 17 196 14 Uttoxter Winkhill 14 210 15 Winkhill Congleton 16 226 16 Congleton Buxton 17 243 17 Buxton Edale 12 255 18 Edale Crowden 16 271 19 Crowden Standedge 11.5 282.5 20 Standedge Hebden Bridge 15 297.5 21 Hebden Bridge Lothersdale 19 316.5 22 Lothersdale Malham 15 331.5 23 Malham Horton in Ribbleside 14 345.5 24 Horton in Ribbleside Hawes 14 359.5 25 Hawes Keld 12.5 372 26 Keld Bowes 13 385 27 Bowes Middleton 17 402 28 Middleton Dufton 20 422 29 Dufton Alston 20 442 30 Alston Greenhead 16 458 31 Greenhead Once Brewed 7 465 32 Once Brewed Bellingham 15.5 480.5 33 Bellingham Byrness 15 495.5 34 Byrness Usway frod farm 16 511.5 35 Usway frod farm Kirk Yetholm 10 521.5 36 Kirk Yetholm Melrose 21.5 543 37 Melrose Peebles 22 565 38 Peebles Carnwarth 20.5 585.5 39 Carnwarth Motherwell 17.5 603 40 Motherwell Glasgow (George Square) 13 616Thanks for visiting our fundraising page.
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Dennis Hollywood