CoastBusters! Join our fundraising wellness campaign this Easter

Are you a CoastBuster? Join our new fundraising/wellness challenge this Easter!

 

Following their successful fundraising walk in October 2020, to Brest & back, our Worcestershire Breast Unit support group is attempting a bigger, challenge – CoastBusters – and is inviting you to join them and raise funds for our charity which supports the women & men of Worcestershire who are diagnosed with breast cancer. 

 

The new England Coastal Trail is a new route, nearly 3000 miles long and follows the entire coast of England. It is divided into 67 sections of varying length, starting at Aust in Gloucestershire, near the Welsh border, then follows the coastal margin in an anti- clockwise direction around the southern part of the country, then heads north along the eastern coastline to the Scottish border. The last sections are from Gretna to Liverpool on the west coast. 

Can you help us complete the walk between the Easter weekend & the Spring Bank Holiday 2021 and raise money for the WBUH. 

The link to the map can be found here: 

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/970117/coastal-access-england-map.pdf 

 There is more information about the 67 sections and the distances for each section are also listed here below. All distances are taken from to the Government Coastal Trail website pages. Not all sections are open. 

You can choose any section or a distance or even join with family and friends and walk, cycle or run the whole 2,795 miles between you. 

Maybe it will somewhere with happy memories of holidays or somewhere you are longing to visit once we are allowed. 

Due to Covid restrictions walks will have to be done locally & following regulations, so choose your section & walk the equivalent distance around our beautiful Worcestershire countryside. 

Donations to your walk can be made to the WBUH via www.justgiving.com/campaign/WBUCoastBusters

To find out more or to get involved, please contact  jacquie.clements@nhs.net for further details

Distance chart for the 67 sections

All distances are taken from the GOV.UK website & are the England Coastal Trail routes. The walk goes in anti-clockwise direction & is England only. Not all sections are open fully opened but the aim is for it to be open in 2021* see below or look on the GOV.UK website

 If you decide to walk any of the sections later & in reality, please check the GOV.UK website for updates & detailed information & approved routes

  SECTION km miles  
1 Aust to Brean Down 80km 50 m  
2 Brean Down to Minehead 93km 58 m  
3 Minehead to Combe Martin 56km 35m  
4 Combe Martin to Marsland Mouth 129km 80m  
5 Marsland Mouth to Newquay 128km 79.5  
6 Newquay to Penzance 128km 79.5  
7 Penzance to St. Mawes 100km 62 m  
8 St. Mawes to Cremyll 124km 77m  
9 Cremyll to Kingswear 107km 67m  
10 Kingswear to Lyme Regis 109km 68m  
11 Lyme Regis to Rufus Castle 67km 42m  
12 Rufus Castle to Lulworth Cove 32km 20m  
13 Lulworth Cove to Kimmeridge Bay* 13.5km 8.5 m  
14 Kimmeridge Bay to Highcliffe* 51km* 31m*  
15 Highcliffe to Calshot 57km 35m  
16 Calshot to Gosport 37.5km 23m  
17 IOW East Cowes to Wootton Bridge* 8km* 5 m*  
18 IOW Wootton Bridge to the Medina* 101km* 63m*  
19 Gosport to Portsmouth 46km 29m  
20 Portsmouth to South Hayling Island 30km 19m  
21 South Hayling Is to East Head 78km 48m  
22 East Head to Shoreham on Sea 69km 43m  
23 Shoreham on Sea to Eastbourne 50km 31 m  
24 Eastbourne to Camber 53km 33m  
25 Camber to Folkestone 47km 29m  
26 Folkestone to Ramsgate 59km 37 m  
27 Ramsgate to Whitstable 40km 25m  
28 Isle of Sheppey 51km 32 m  
29 Whitstable to Iwade 43km 27m  
30 Iwade to Grain 58km 36m  
31 Grain to Woolwich 78km 49 m  
32 Tilbury to Southend 70km 43m  
33 Southend to Wallasea Island 58km 36m  
34 Wallasea Island to Burnham on Crouch 58km 36m  
35 Burnham on Crouch to Maldon 62km 39m  
36 Maldon to Salcott 39km 24m  
37 Mersea Island 20km 12 m  
38 Salcott to Jaywick 81km 50 m  
39 Jaywick to Harwich 60km 38m  
40 Harwich to Shotley Gate 39km 24m  
41 Shotley Gate to Felixstowe Ferry 44km 27m  
42 Felixstowe Ferry to Bawdsey 41km 25.5m  
43 Bawdsey to Aldeburgh 62km 39m  
44 Aldeburgh to Hopton on Sea 60km 38m  
45 Hopton on Sea to Sea Palling 34km 21m  
46 Sea Palling to Weybourne 41km 25.5m  
47 Weybourne to Hunstanton 60km 38m  
48 Hunstanton to Sutton Bridge 53km 33m  
49 Sutton Bridge to Skegness 92km 57m  
50 Skegness to Mablethorpe 26km 16 m  
51 Mablethorpe to the Humber Bridge 81km 50.5  
52 The Humber Bridge to Easington 63km 39m  
53 Easington to Filey Brigg 95km 59m  
54 Filey Brigg to Newport Bridge 126km 78 m  
55 Newport Bridge to North Gare 16km 10 m  
56 North Gare to South Bents 55km 34m  
57 South Bents to Amble 71 km 44 m  
58 Amble to Bamburgh 47km 29m  
59 Bamburgh to Scottish Border 61 km 38m  
60 Gretna to Allonby, Maryport 100km 62.6m  
61 Allonby, Maryport to Whitehaven 35km 22 m  
62 Whitehaven to Silecroft 52km 32m  
63 Silecroft to Silverdale 111km 69 m  
64 Walney Island 26km 16.2  
65 Silverdale to Cleveleys 87km 54 m  
66 Cleveleys to Pier Head, Liverpool 116km 72 m  
67 Birkenhead to the Welsh Border 41km 25.5m  
         
* Not all sections open.

Approx. as information currently not available on GOV.UK website

There are coastal paths at these locations not yet formally part of the England Coastal Trail

      

England Coastal Trail Walk