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 | Set out from John o' Groats and skirt the east Highland coast on the A99 south to Wick, passing through the villages of Freswick, Keiss, and Reiss. Continue on the A99 southwest to Latheron passing through Thrumster, Ulbster and Lybster. Pick up the A9 and continue southwest through Dunbeath, Berriedale and Helmsdale... |
 | Continuing on the A9 over the Dornoch Firth and through Tain and Alness into INVERNESS. Pick up the A82 and head southwest along the shore of Loch Ness through Drumnadrochit and passing Urquhart Castle... |
 | Continue on the A82 along the shore of Loch Lochy through Spean Bridge and into Fort William. Continue further on the A82 along the shore of Loch Linhe, crossing the mouth of Loch Leven at Ballachulish. Stay on the A82 eastward through the village of Glencoe, then Glen Coe itself and on south briefly through Argyle & Bute and into Stirling through Tyndrum to pick up the A85 at Crianlarich heading east... |
 | Continue on the A85 to Lochearnhead and turn onto the A84 southeast through Strathyre and Callander, passing close to Rob Roy's Grave, then through Buchany to Doune. Then briefly take the A820 before turning off onto the B824 passing Doune Castle to M9 J11 where we rejoin the A9. Pass through Bridge of Allan and skirt STIRLING on the A907 and A91 passing close to the National Wallace Monument, then follow the south bank of the Firth of Forth on the A905 into Falkirk to Grangemouth. Then take the A904 to Bo'ness and on into West Lothian and to South Queensferry. Take the A90 into the City of Edinburgh and skirt EDINBURGH on the A902 and A720... |
 | Turn onto the A7 south through Midlothian and into the Borders, passing through Stow to Galashiels. Continue on the A7 south through Selkirk and Ashkirk to Hawick... |
 | Take the A698 and A6088 southeast, passing through Caldmill, Bonchester Bridge and the small hamlet of Southdean where TT and Superbike hero Steve Hislop is buried. Join the A68 at Carter Bar and the English border, crossing into Northumberland. Continue southeast on the A68, passing through Ramshope, Byrness, Rochester, Horsley and Troughend before turning south on the B6320. Continue south through Bellingham and Wark, before turning west just before Wall and following Hadrian's Wall on the B6318 to Greenhead. Join the A69 west into Cumbria... |
 | Skirt Brampton and turn back east and then south on the A689, passing through Milton, Hallbankgate and Tindale then briefly back into Northumberland and through Halton Lea Gate, Knarsdale, Slaggyford and back into Cumbria and on to Alston. Turn southwest on the A686 ("Route 686") through Melmerby and Langwathby and on into Penrith. Take the A66 and A592 southwest, skirting the shore of Ullswater, before turning south through Glenridding and Patterdale... |
 | Continue south on the A592 through Troutbeck and into Windermere. Then turn southeast on the A591, skirting Kendal, before turning off onto the A590 to pick up the A6 and head south through Leasgill, Beetham , Hale, into Lancashire and on through Carnforth, Bolton le Sands, Slyne to Lancaster... |
 | Continuing on the A6 into PRESTON, then turn southwest on the A59 through Much Hoole, Tarleton, Rufford, Burscough Bridge, Burscough Ormskirk, Aughton, Maghull into Sefton and BOOTLE. Skirt LIVERPOOL along the Mersey riverfront on the A561 passing Albert Docks, through Garston and Speke onto the A562 into Halton and on to WIDNES. Skirt RUNCORN on the A557, then take the A533 southeast, before turning south on the A49 near Whitley, into Cheshire passing through Weaverham and Cuddington and close to Oulton Park... |
 | Continue south on the A49 into Shropshire, skirting Whitchurch then through Prees and Prees Green, then skirting SHREWSBURY on the A5. Rejoin the A49 and continue south through Bayston Hill, Leebotwood, Church Stretton, Upper Affcot and Craven Arms then skirting Ludlow... |
 | Still on the A49, into Herefordshire passing through Hereford itself, then Callow, Kingsthorne, Much Birch, Harewood End and Peterstow. Just before Ross-on-Wye, turn southwest onto the A40 then shortly onto the B4229. Through Goodrich to the B4234 and on south into Gloucestershire through Lydbrook to the A4136, then east through Woodside, Mitchel and Longhope to join the A40 through Huntley and Churcham to GLOUCESTER. Turn southwest onto the A430 until it becomes the A38 and continue through Valence, Whitminster, Claypits, Cambridge (not the university city!), Gossington, Newport, Woodford, into South Gloucestershire and through Falfield, Whitfield to Alveston. Bypass BRISTOL by taking the B4461 to M40 J1, then A403 along the Severn to Avonmouth, then the A4 back inland along the Avon to rejoin the A38... |
 | Continue southwest on the A38 into North Somerset, through Bottom and Blackmoor into Somerset to M5 J22. Staying on the A38 through Highbridge, Huntspill and Powlett to Bridgwater. Turn west onto the A39 and skirt the north Somerset coast, passing through Nether Stowey, Woodlands, Holford, Williton, Washford, Bilbrook, Minehead, Porlock and on into Devon... |
 | Through Barnstaple and still on the A39, skirting Bideford then on through Fairy Cross, Horns Cross, Buck's Cross into Cornwall, through Kilkhampton, skirting Bude. Staying on the A39 through Coppathorne, Bangors, Treskinnick Cross, Trencreek, Wainhouse Corner, Camelford, Helstone and St Kew Highway to Wadebridge... |
 | Following the A39 further to Indian Queens and turning southwest onto the A30 for the last run. Through Summercourt, Mitchell, Blackwater, skirting Redruth, Camborne and Hayle, through Canonstown and into Penzance. Finally the A30 through Drift, Crows-an-Wra and Sennen, to arrive at Land's End. |