Pathfinder Guides

For 25 years Pathfinder Guides have been the definitive companion to the highways, byways, hills, moors and coastline of Britain. With over 70 titles in the series they offer essential information for walkers throughout the country. We are passionate about walking and producing Britains best loved walking guides. If you have any comments or suggest... ions about our titles we would love to hear your thoughts. You can contact us at info@pathfinderwalks.co.uk Pathfinder Guides, through Crimson Publishing, is an Ordnance Survey licensed partner. The clear, large-scale route maps used in the books to illustrate each Pathfinder Walk and Short Walk are one of the core features in the guides. Since the first Pathfinder Guides were published in 1989, the OS 1:25,000-scale Explorer and Outdoor Leisure map extracts have been central to the publishing ethos behind the books. The holy trinity of fabulous walks, written by professional outdoor writers and drawn on large-scale OS map extracts continues to set the benchmark for successful walking guides. While the OS 1:25,000 sheet maps are used by an enormous variety of outdoor enthusiasts, for many years the vast majority of users have been walkers. The large-scale depiction of 1mm on the map representing 25 metres on the ground is particularly good for walking, achieving a good practical compromise between sheet size and coverage on the one hand and showing clear topographical detail on the other. Public paths, permitted paths, bridleways, byways, national trails and recognised long-distance paths, tracks and lanes, and access land are all features used to create Pathfinder Walks and shown in conjunction with contours, rivers, woodland and field boundaries, settlements and cultural and historic features, renders an extraordinarily useful image of the landscape and setting for our routes. In the books, due to constraints of layout space, it is not always possible to show the mapping at 1:25,000 but we always include a scale bar with each route map and a scale statement. We ...Read More