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 Sufficient clothing plus an emergency blanket to keep you warm, dry and safe

 Maps, guidebook, compass, torch, whistle

 A small first aid kit plus any personal medicines

 A small washing kit (not a huge soap bag and no towel if using B&B or hotel accommodation)

 Sufficient food and drink, including emergency food

Backpackers will also need a good lightweight tent, sleeping bag, insulating mat, cooking stove, utensils, fuel and a lightweight travel towel. Most other items will be superfluous. My luxuries consist only of a camera and a small exercise book to be used as a travel journal.

Maps

This guidebook contains Ordnance Survey (OS) Landranger (1:50,000) mapping of the entire SUW with the route of the Trail clearly overlaid. Provided no serious navigational errors occur en route, nor long detours from the SUW are envisaged, then in theory this is the only mapping that is required to walk the Trail. However, many walkers will want to carry some general maps of the area with them, as these are useful for a number of reasons. When you reach one of the many viewpoints along the SUW you will see other distant hills and ranges, villages and small towns, and a whole topography of land and seascape. What are those villages, those hills, that coastline? Unless you have a detailed knowledge of the area, or are walking with a local guide, then the answers to these and other similar questions can only be answered by reference to a good map. Sometimes it will be necessary to divert from the actual line of the SUW to secure a night’s accommodation. Several places of interest are varying distances from the route, from a few hundred yards to several miles, and in order to plot the shortest or most interesting route to them and back onto the Trail, a map will be invaluable. So you must make a decision whether or not to carry other maps with you when walking the SUW.