Three Shires Way
Waymarked Way · East Anglia
1,500
XP
a 3-day route
49 mile route liking the Swan's Way to the Grafham Water circular walk, which it now incorporates, made up largely of bridleways.
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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
Rolling walk
Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.
Climb
432 m
Drop
388 m
Highest
116 m
Lowest
20 m
Walking time
about 16 h 26 min
A 3-day route, walked in stages. 1,500 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.
Which way round
Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.
Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.
No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.
Main climb: km 59.7–60.5, from 55 m to 85 m.
How the 78.6 km splits
Flat
69.0 km
Climbing
4.7 km
Descending
5.0 km
Mike Mellor Way
Shares 2.5 km of path · meets at km 50.6, 51.4, 51.915.42 km
Ouse Valley Way
Shares 2.2 km of path · meets at km 48.4, 52.3, 52.7…241.01 km
Milton Keynes Boundary Walk
Shares 1.1 km of path · meets at km 42.7103.52 km
Hanslope Circular Ride
Crosses at km 62.431.75 km
Swan's Way
Crosses at km 62.4105.53 km