Water and lunch on the Pennine Way, mile by mile

The Pennine Way is 255 miles long, and the map has 27 food shops within a kilometre of it: fewer for its length than any of the southern trails. From Malham to Hawes there are taps and shops on most days. At both ends there are not, and both ends are worth planning before you set off.

Everything below is counted from OpenStreetMap, read 26 September 2026: every food shop, café and pub within a kilometre of the path, and every drinking-water tap within 400 metres. A place on the map is not a promise it is open, and anything further off the path is not counted.

Food shops within 1 km

27

with 38 cafés and 37 pubs

Taps within 400 m

16

none in the first 67 miles

No food at all

40 mi

Bellingham to Kirk Yetholm

Water

OpenStreetMap has sixteen drinking-water taps within 400 metres of the Way, twelve of them on the path itself. The first is at East Marton, at mile 67; from Edale to there the map has none.

The longest gap between two taps is 41 miles, from Horton in Ribblesdale, at mile 91, to the next at mile 132. The next longest is 25 miles, from Dufton, at mile 157, over Cross Fell to Slaggyford. After the last tap, at mile 228, there are 27 miles to Kirk Yetholm with none.

Fill up in the villages where you stop, and carry enough for the stretches between; on this trail they are long.

Food

Three stretches have no food shop on the map:

• Edale to Slack Top, 45 miles. Edale's shop is the last until then. The path passes pubs, but no shop.
• Alston to Bellingham, 36 miles.
• Bellingham to Kirk Yetholm, 40 miles, and this one has no café or pub within a kilometre of the path either. Byrness, the last night in the planner's split, has the Forest View Inn on the National Trail's accommodation list, but OpenStreetMap does not have it as a pub or café.

Day by day

In the planner's eighteen-day split, the days to plan for:

• Days 1 to 5, Edale to Earby. No tap on any of them. Day 2, from the first night's stop to Denshaw, has no shop, café or pub within a kilometre either, and day 3, to Hebden Bridge, only two pubs.
• Day 9, Hawes to Keld. No tap; six shops, the last 2.1 miles before Keld.
• Day 10, Keld to Kelton. No shop; two cafés and a pub.
• Day 12, Langdon Beck to Dufton, and day 15, Lambley to Once Brewed. No shop on either; a café and two pubs, and two cafés and three pubs.
• Day 17, Bellingham to Byrness. Two shops, both in Bellingham at the start.
• Day 18, Byrness to Kirk Yetholm. 24.9 miles with no tap and nothing to buy until Kirk Yetholm.

So the food for the last two days, 40 miles, is bought in Bellingham. The planner's day cards give the last shop before each night for any split you choose.

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