A Canon at Coventry Cathedral has raised more than £26,000 for Christian organisation Feed The Hungry after completing the 13-day trek across England.

Building work is now underway on new classrooms for orphans in Zambia thanks to Gavin Kibble’s mammoth fundraising challenge of walking 200 miles coast to coast.

Canon Kibble was accompanied on parts of the route, which traverses three national parks between St Bees Head in Lancashire and Robin Hood Bay in Yorkshire.

Canon Gavin Kibble said: “The Coast-to-Coast is the biggest challenge I’ve undertaken in my entire life. By any stretch of the imagination, this is a really tough walk. The last day especially was quite brutal as there is a one-in-three hill out of the last village which goes on for about a mile rising up 750 feet.

“There’s nothing really which can adequately prepare you for how brutal this particular walk is. You just have to go through the pain barrier and come out of the other side. It doesn’t get any easier as you go on but the brain somehow switches into a different mode.

“It asks questions of you as an individual all the way through but I learned I am a whole lot more resilient than I thought I was.”

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