The final stretch: Immingham to London - 611 MILES

Join us as we recount the concluding 611 miles of this epic 7,000-mile journey, from the industrial landscapes of Immingham back to the historic heart of London. Discover the unique challenges and profound reflections of walking the English coastline's final leg.

BASIC ROUTE -

239.    Immingham Dock — Sea Wall —Grimsby Docks — Clectnorpes — Humberston Fitties — Tetney Haven — Northcoates Point — Horse Shoe Point — Pye’s Hall — Donna Nook — Samphire Bed —Saltfleet  ................ 30 miles  (6,043 miles).

240.   Saltfleet — Coastline — Mablethorpe — Trusthorpe —Sutton on Sea — Sandilands — Anderby Creek — Chapel Point —
Ingoldmells Point — Seathorne — Skegness................... 25 miles  (6,068 miles).

241.   Skegness — Gibraltar Point — Clough Farm — Wainfleet Sand — Sea Wall — The Horseshoe — Wrangle Flats — The Delph —
Clay Hole —'The Haven —Skirbeck — Boston .............. 31 miles  (6,099 miles).

242.    Boston — The Haven — Sea Wall — Frampton Marsh — Fosdyke Wash — Sea Wall — Fleet Haven — Sea Wall — Old Lighthouses  - Nene Outlall Cut—Sutton Bridge Hotel ...................33 miles  (6,132 miles).

243.  Sutton Bridge — River Nene — Old Lighthouses — Breast Sand — Admiralty.Point— Lynn Channel — River Great Ouse — West Lynn — King’s Lynn ........................ 21 miles  (6,153 miles).

244.    King’s Lynn — South Wootton — North Wootton — Sea Wall — Snettisham Scalp — Stubborn Sand — Hunstanton — Gore
Point — Broad Water — Thornham — ‘Titchwell — Brancaster — —Burnham Deepdale — Burnham Market — Burnham Overy —
Overy Staithe — Holkham ....................39 miles (6,192 miles).

245.   Holkham — West Sands — Wells-next-the-Sea - Warham Greens — Suffkey Greens — Agar Creek — Blakeney — Clev next the Sea—Cley Eve—Salthouse Broads — Weybourne Hope  - Sheringham Youth Hostel  ............ 26 miles  (6,218 miles).

246.  Sheringham — East Runton Gap — Cromer = Overstrand — Marl Point — Mundesley — Bacton — Walcott ................................ 20 miles (6,238 miles).

247.   Walcott — Happisburgh — Eccles Beach — Sea Palling — Marram Hills — Winterton Ness — Winterton-on-Sea — Newport — Califorma — Caister-on-Sea — Britannia Pier - Great Yarmouth ................ 25 miles (6,263 miles).

248.   Great Yarmouth — Southtown — Gorleston on Sea — Corton Cliffs — Corton — Lowestoft — Pakefield Cliffs — Kessingland ...................20 miles  (6,283 miles).

249.   Kessingland — Benacre Ness — Covehithe — Easton Clills - Southwold — ‘Vinker’s Marshes — Walberswick — Reedland Marshes — Dunwich — Minsmere Haven — Sizewell Power Station — Thorpeness — The Haven — Aldeburgh ..................... 26 miles  (6,309 miles).

250.     Aldeburgh — South Warren — Black Heath Wood — Shape Street — Ikencliff — ‘Tunstall Forest — Chillestord — Butle Abbey — Ely Hill — Oak Hill — Oxley Marshes — Shingle Street — Martello ‘Tower — Bawdsey Manor — Bawdsey — Alderton — Shottisham — Sutton — B1083 — Wilford Bridge (Melton) .................. 32 miles  (6,341 miles).

251.   Wilford Bridge — Martlesham Creek —Waldringfield —Hemley Kirton Creek — Deben River Wall = Felixstowe Ferry — Sea
Wall — Felixstowe — Waltonferry — Levington — Nacton — Ipswich (centre) ................. 34 miles  (6,375 miles).

252.      Ipswich — A137 — B1456— Woolverstone — Holbrook —Stutton — Seafield Bay — Cattawade — Manningtree — Mistley -
Bradfield — Wrabness — Ramsey — Harwich ...................... 29 miles  (6,404 miles).

253.   Harwich — Sea Wall = Little Oakley Hall —- Great Oakley —Beaumont-Cum-Moze — Kirby le Soken— Walton on the Naze
— Frinton-on-Sea — Holland-on-Sea — Clacton-on-Sea  .............25 miles (6,429 miles).

254.  Clacton-on-Sea —_Jaywick Sands — St Osyth Beach — Lee-over -Sands — Point Clear — St Osyth — Hollybush Hill — Brightlingsea — Alresford Creek — Wivenhoe — River Colne — Colchester Youth Hostel ,,,,,,,,,,, 25 miles   (6,454 miles).

255.   Colchester — B1025 — Blackheath — Abberton — Peldon — Great Wigborough - Salcott -— Tolleshunt D'Arcy — Goldhanger — Maldon.................24 miles  (6,478 miles).

266.     Maldon — Sea Wall — Limbourne Creek — Southey Creek — Maylandsea— Steeple —St Lawrence Bay—Bradwell Waterside
— Sea Wall — St Peter's Chapel — Sandbeach Outfall — Sandbeach Farm ................ 25 miles  (6,503 miles).

267.   Sandbeach Farm — Howe Outfall — Grange Outfall — Sea Wall - Coate Outfall — Holliwell Point — Sea Wall — Burnham-on-Crouch — Althorne — Uleham’s Farm — Great Hayes — South Woodham Ferrers  ...................26 miles  (6,529 miles).

268,.  South Woodham Ferrers — River Crouch ford — Hullbridge — The Dome — Fambridge — Sea Wall — Black Point— Lion Wharf — Ballards Gore — Great Stambridge — Rochford Mill — Sutton Hall— Barling—Great Wakering —Shocburyness— Thorpe Bay — Southend-on-Sea ....................... 31 miles  (6,560  miles).

269.     Southend-on-Sea — Leigh-on-Sea — Hadleigh Marsh — Benfleet Greek — St Margaret’s Church — Pitsea — Vange — Fobbing — Stanford le Hope .................20 miles  (6,580 miles).

270.  Stanford le Hope — Mucking — East Tilbury — Sea Wall — Tilbury — Little Thurrock — Grays — Sea Wall — Purfleet —
Wennington — Rainham —A13 — Dagenham — Al3 — Barking Creek — South Bromley — Poplar ............34 miles (6,614 miles)

271.   Poplar — City of London —5t Paul’s Cathedral ..........................10 miles  (6,624 miles.)

Malfunction of pedometer on north-west coast of Scotland: estimated additional mileage -- 200 miles.

Total Mileage - 6,824 miles.

Notes 

Basically I averaged 26 miles a day, many days walking more than 30 miles a day. At 3,000 miles I unkowningly suffered a stress fracture  in a my right foot. I walked on and did 300 miles before it got to painfull. I had no option but to have my right leg in plaster, to immoblise me. I stated at the beginning if anything happened I would stay where I was and recover. This is what I did. Contary to doctors advice, once out of plaster climbed a munroe a day for a week. On the 7th day I say the doctor/specialist and told him I was setting off again the next morning. He had advised that maybe I could walk 3 miles a day and maybe set off again in two months! I admits, as my daily mileage shows, I did 10 or more miles a day for 6 weeks before doing more than 20 miles a day and soon back to 30 plus a day. I simply walked my foot back into walking order! Overall I walked a marathon a day! with 50lbs on my back, in all weathers - wind, rain, snow and hot sun and no rest days!

Back in London and about to go to a press conference after the walk.