JOGLPJOGLP, LEJOG or the End to End Trail?
If you want to walk the length of Great Britain, you soon come across three terms. Here is how our route fits in – honestly: we have not walked Cicerone's End to End Trail. The figures for it come from the publisher.
Patrick read the Cicerone guide while planning – it is a good book. In the end, though, we wanted to plan more ourselves: we assessed each trail on its own and worked out our own links between them. That is how the route on this site came about.
The terms
- LEJOG
- Land's End to John o' Groats: the classic from south-west to north-east. Not a fixed path but a goal – walked, cycled or driven on many different routes. As the crow flies it is about 986 km.
- JOGLE
- The same in reverse, from John o' Groats to Land's End.
- End to End Trail
- A specific walking route for LEJOG, devised by Andy Robinson and published as a Cicerone guide. It links existing long-distance paths and stays off-road wherever it can.
- JOGLP
- Our name for our variant: from John o' Groats to Lizard Point, the southern tip of Cornwall, instead of Land's End. Why Lizard Point?
Side by side
| JOGLP (our route) | End to End Trail (Cicerone) | |
|---|---|---|
| Start → finish | John o' Groats → Lizard Point | Land's End → John o' Groats |
| Direction | north → south | south → north |
| Distance | 1,766 km | 1,956 km |
| Ascent | approx. 31,400 m | no figure found |
| Structure | 9 trails; stages at your own pace in the day planner | 61 daily stages, averaging just under 32 km |
| Duration | us: 49 walking days + 3 rest days (30 June – 20 August 2025) | 2–3 months (two- and three-month schedules) |
| Season | we walked in summer | recommended: April to June, northbound |
| Character | established long-distance trails linked by lowland sections; we recommend the train for two stretches (Glasgow, Chepstow → Bristol) | as high as possible and away from roads; aimed at experienced hill walkers, says the publisher |
| Accommodation | we wild camped almost every night | campsites, hostels, B&Bs; wild camping mentioned |
| What you get | this website, free: GPX, day planner, shops, water, trains & buses, costs, packing list | a book (416 pages, 2023, £19.95) with stage descriptions |
Both routes pass through the same regions: the West Highland Way, the Southern Uplands, the Cheviots, the Pennines, the Peak District and the Welsh borders. In detail they differ.
Which suits you?
- You want to go north in spring, as high as possible, with a printed description of every stage: the End to End Trail with the Cicerone guide is made for that.
- You want to go south in summer, with a tent, planning as you go: that is what we built this site for – with GPX, a day planner and what we learned on the way.
- You only want to walk part of it: each of our 9 trails has its own page with trains and buses at the start and end.
The guide: Walking the End to End Trail (Andy Robinson, Cicerone 2023) –from the publisher ↗
Sources
End to End Trail details: Cicerone – Walking the End to End Trail, Cicerone – An intro to the LEJOG. As of 11/2026.