Editing Alfred Wainwright (section)

==Later works==
Wainwright followed the ''Pictorial Guides'' in 1968 with the ''Pennine Way Companion'', applying the same detailed approach to Britain's first long-distance footpath. This was for many years a leading guide to the [[Pennine Way]], rivalling the official guide book by [[Tom Stephenson (activist)|Tom Stephenson]]. Wainwright's book consists of a continuous strip map of the route with accompanying commentary, with an unusual quirk: because the route goes from south to north (bottom to top on a map), contrary to normal reading order, the map and commentary start at the bottom of the last page and work upwards and backwards towards the front of the book. The guide was prepared with the aid of four helpers (Harry Appleyard, Len Chadwick, Cyril Moore and Lawrence Smith) and its preparation was affected by the major outbreaks of [[foot and mouth disease]] in 1966 and 1967, which closed access to many of the moors.

In 1972 Wainwright devised the west–east [[Coast to Coast Walk]], as an alternative to the north–south Pennine Way. The Coast to Coast, he declares in his guidebook, which follows the same format as the ''Pennine Way Companion'', "puts the Pennine Way to shame" for scenic beauty, variety and interest.<ref>{{cite book |first=Alfred |last=Wainwright |title=A Coast to Coast Walk |location=London |publisher=Frances Lincoln |orig-date=1973 |date=2003 |isbn=978-0-7112-2236-6}}</ref> The {{convert|190|mi|km|abbr=off|adj=on}} route traverses the north of England from [[St. Bees]] to [[Robin Hood's Bay]], passing through the Lake District, the [[Yorkshire Dales]] and the [[North York Moors]] [[National parks of England and Wales|national parks]].

''[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]'' (an idea he had previously rejected), published in 1974, was his last major guidebook. Thereafter he concentrated on sketchbooks of larger-size line drawings until his eyesight began to fail in the mid-1980s.  His ''Ex-Fellwanderer'', an autobiographical work published in 1987, was intended to be his last written work, but he continued to lend his name and some written commentary to a series of "[[coffee table books]]" featuring the photography of [[Derry Brabbs]].