Where to stay on the Pennine Way, night by night

The planner's default split for the Pennine Way is eighteen days, from Edale to Kirk Yetholm. That makes seventeen nights on the way, and they are uneven. Hawes, Hebden Bridge and Once Brewed each have sixteen or more places listed nearby. Five nights are thin: the planner flags four of them as limited, and the fifth has only a campsite on the Trail's list. Those are the ones to book first.

Two lists are counted below. The first is the National Trail's own accommodation list, read 26 September 2026: 419 places, 384 of which we could place by postcode. For each night we count the places on it within 2.5 km of the stop. The second is OpenStreetMap, read the same day. Neither is a booking check: a place on a list is not a room on your night, and we have not phoned anyone.

Places on the Trail's list

384

placed by postcode, of 419

Thin nights

5

four flagged limited, one campsite only

The last day

24.9 mi

Byrness to Kirk Yetholm

Night by night

In the planner's eighteen-day split, with a bed and breakfast each night. The thin nights are in bold.

• Night 1 (15.3 miles from Edale). The planner names this stop after a B&B on OpenStreetMap, The Old House, 0.7 km off the path. The Trail's list has only the Camping and Caravanning Club's Crowden site, 2 km away.
• Night 2, Denshaw (16 miles). The stop is 2.1 km off the path. The list has a caravan park; OpenStreetMap adds Clough Manor at 2.7 km.
• Night 3, Hebden Bridge (10.7 miles). Seventeen on the list.
• Night 4, Stanbury (10.7 miles). Three, among them the Old Silent Inn.
• Night 5, Earby (12 miles). Four, among them Earby Hostel.
• Night 6, Malham (11.3 miles). Nine; the Buck Inn and the Lister Arms are within 0.2 km.
• Night 7, Horton in Ribblesdale (14.7 miles). Five, among them the Golden Lion and a bunkroom.
• Night 8, Hawes (13.8 miles). Eighteen, the most of any night.
• Night 9, Keld (12.6 miles). Five, among them Butt House and Park Lodge.
• Night 10, Kelton (16.3 miles). Nothing on the Trail's list within 2.5 km; OpenStreetMap has Hunter House Farm, 0.4 km away.
• Night 11, Langdon Beck (12 miles). Three: YHA Langdon Beck, a farm B&B and the Langdon Beck Hotel, all within about a kilometre.
• Night 12, Dufton (12.2 miles). Three, among them YHA Dufton, 0.2 km off the path.
• Night 13, Garrigill (15.5 miles). Four, three of them within 0.1 km.
• Night 14, Lambley (13.8 miles). Two on the list, The Old Cottage at 0.6 km and Clover Hill Cottage at 1.3 km, and nothing on OpenStreetMap.
• Night 15, Once Brewed (13.8 miles). Sixteen, the nearest Craws Nest and the Twice Brewed Inn; OpenStreetMap adds YHA The Sill at 0.6 km.
• Night 16, Bellingham (14.9 miles). Nine, among them the Cheviot Hotel.
• Night 17, Byrness (15.2 miles). Three on the list: the Forest View Inn and Spruce Cottage Bunkhouse by the path, and a caravan park 1.8 km away; nothing on OpenStreetMap.

Day 18 is 24.9 miles from Byrness to Kirk Yetholm, the longest of the walk in this split.

If one of the thin nights is full, the planner will move it: change the number of days, or open a day and pick another stop, and it shows what is listed near the new one.

Hostels and bunkhouses

The Trail's list has 55 places it calls hostels, bunkhouses or bunk barns. With the planner set to hostels, its split takes seventeen nights too, and four of them are thin: Crowden, Knarsdale, Byrness and a stop near The Schil.

What the lists will not tell you

Whether a place takes one-night stays at weekends, has single rooms, takes dogs or will take a bag from a luggage transfer: none of it is on either list, and we have not asked. Those are the questions to ask when you book. The planner's day cards count each night's places on both lists, and its booking checklist puts the thinnest nights at the top.

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