Total distance:  Approx 177 Miles (KM)

 

Grade: Green with Amber sections.  (Grade Description)

 

Start/Finish: Chepstow to Prestatyn

 

Accommodation: Hotels, B & B, Farmhouse or Inns

 

Price:

 

Offa's Dyke Path - Full Route 177 miles

13 Night Walking Break. 12 walking days £975.pp

14 Night Walking Break. 13 walking days £1050.pp

15 Night Walking Break. 14 walking days £1125.pp  

16 Night Walking Break., 15 walking days £1200.pp

17 Night Walking Break. 16 walking days £1275.pp

 

 

Offa's Dyke Path - Southern Section 81 miles (130km)

Chepstow to Knighton

6 Night Walking Break. 5 walking days £450.pp

7 Night Walking Break. 6 walking days  £525.pp

8 Night Walking Break. 7 walking days  £600.pp

 

 

Offa's Dyke Path - Northern Section 96 miles (154km)

Knighton to Prestatyn

8 Night Walking Break.7 walking days  £600.pp

9 Night Walking Break.8 walking days  £675.pp  

10 Night Walking Break. 9 walking days  £750.pp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost includes Luggage transfers where required, your accommodation on bed & breakfast basis, if you need a packed lunch they can be arranged subject to accommodation providers charge.

Detailed maps and route descriptions provided as required.

 

Offa's Dyke (Welsh - Clawdd Offa) runs from the River Wye in South Wales to the estuary of the River Dee in the North. (approximately 150 miles, or 240 km).  

During the walk all you need to do is follow the Acorn LOGO

 

 

Offas Dyke is a massive linear earthwork, roughly following some of the current border between England and Wales. In places, it is up to 65 feet (20 m) wide (including its surrounding ditch) and 8 feet (2.5m) high.

In the 8th century it formed some kind of delineation between the Anglian kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys.

It has been the subject of considerable research in recent years, dispelling many of the earlier understandings.

It is still generally accepted that much of the earthwork can be attributed to Offa, King of Mercia from 757 to 796.

Its structure is that of a mutual boundary between the Mercians on the one side and the men of Powys on the other.

The earthwork has been dug with the displaced soil piled into a bank on the Mercian (eastern) side. Where the earthwork encounters hills, it goes to the west of them, constantly providing an open view into Wales.

The implication must be that this was an earthwork built by Mercia as a defence against attacks or raids from Powys.

Offa was one of the great rulers of Anglo-Saxon times, though his reign is often overlooked due to a limitation in source material.

That he was able to raise the manpower and resources to construct such an earthwork as Offa's Dyke is testament to his power.