Cleveland Way

The late Gordon Simm was a guidebook author and an award-winning photographer. He lived in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park from the early 1980s until his sudden death in 2012 just after this guidebook was first published. He had been walking parts of the Cleveland Way repeatedly since his first completion in 1989. In 2011 he won the title "Photographer of the Year" in a Panasonic competition and his photos were showcased at the NEC.Jacquetta Megarry is a professional author who became interested in long-distance walking and trekking, and turned publisher in 2000. After completing the West Highland Way, her first long walk, in 1998, she progressed to Mount Kilimanjaro, which she summited four times by different routes. In 2000 she devised the rainproof Rucksack Reader format with built-in mapping for walking guidebooks. She has since written or co-authored 27 of its guidebooks, several of them award-winning.

Fantastic guide, cannot fault: I waked the Cleveland Way with the help of this book and maps on my phone, and found it very easy to follow. And it's packed with useful information on history and geography too.I read it extensively before my walk but barely needed to refer to it during the actual hike, but I'm so glad I had it to hand just in case.