Long Distance Paths - About the Searchable Database

These LDPs pages provide detailed information for a route and its publications using the Search by Path and Search by Publication links above. They also include the LDP News Archive, comprising ongoing LDPs ‘news’ items, such as new route openings, and all the past Strider LDP News feature articles since 2002, when the Handbook was published.

For instructions on how to use these LDPs pages, find information and save and print it please see the sections below. If you are familiar with using searchable websites you can skip these instructions.

The site is structured on the basis that each LDP has one or more publications available each from its own supplier. Publications include paper publications, maps, websites and downloads. For simplicity we list only one supplier for each publication (see FAQ's - Obtaining Publications and Maps). As websites can be accessed directly online, we do not always list details of the custodians of the sites (ie, their suppliers).

Finding Detailed Information on Paths, Publications and Maps

The LDPs Information is in an online database that you can search using the Find Paths and Find Publications links above. If you know how to use searchable websites, skip these instructions. Remember to clear your search options between searches as these are remembered.

Find Paths. Specify what you want to find in the search option fields (boxes). Here are some examples to find out about:

• Pennine Way – in the ‘Path Name’ field or box type ‘Pennine’ and click ‘Search’ to return a list of routes. From these click on Pennine Way to return the route data. Maps, and publication titles (and generally any highlighted text) are all clickable to provide details in a new window as are the buttons for ‘View Map’. You can buy the route OS maps and some publications online by using the ‘Buy Online’ links and benefit the LDWA as well. Where there is a ‘Printer Friendly’ button you can use this. Use the back button on your PCs browser to return to the last screen.
• Routes ‘passing through’, say Devon. In the ‘Path Area’ area option box, use the drop down menu (down arrow) and select 'Passes Through' and ‘ Devon’ and ‘Search’ to return the list of routes and click any one for its details. ‘Passes through’ includes ‘Starts In’ and ‘Finishes In’.
• Routes for which full data is ‘Available Online’. Use the default option, ‘Available Online’ in ‘Status’ and then click ‘Search’. This drop-down menu enables other choices, eg to see all route names select the blank option.

Only new routes since the Handbook or routes that have been fully updated will show as ‘Available Online’ and full data is then visible to you.

Find Publications.  This works in a similar way to Find Paths and allows searching with many options, for example to:

• List the LDPs publications by, say, Cicerone Press (a supplier), type ‘Cicerone’ in the name field and click ‘Search’ to return the list. The items listed in highlighted text, say Cumbria Coastal Way, are each clickable for more details where these are linked to an updated route. If the item has a review available online here, eg taken from the LDWA Strider Footprint column, this will be shown or alternatively more details from the publisher may be included.
  

Find Suppliers.  As with Find Paths and Find Publications this option allows searching by Supplier (publisher).

Using the LDP News Archive (Strider)

There are two sections in this archive containing:

• News Archive - LDPs newsflashes posted on the public pages of the website.
• The cumulative Strider LDPs News articles back to when the Handbook went to press. If you are an LDWA member you can download a composite LDP News file (1 Mb) of all these News items to search from the download link below. Note that websites and email addresses are not set as clickable links in this file as they may be out of date or no longer be in use. The text here is only that published in Strider without any subsequent updates. For clickable links use the data returned from the main search screens: Search by Path, Search by Publication and Search by Supplier. These links have been checked and should work; if not please Contact Us to report the broken link. Once future news items are reflected in the online route and publications pages, you can follow any weblinks mentioned in Strider from these pages without keying the web addresses in again.