St Cuthbert Way is a waymarked path of about a hundred kilometres, and it is worth being exact that the path itself is recent even though the life it traces is ancient.
Melrose to Lindisfarne
The route runs from Melrose in the Scottish Borders, where Cuthbert entered monastic life around 651, to Lindisfarne, where he was prior and later bishop, crossing the Anglo-Scottish border in the Cheviot hills and finishing with the tidal crossing to Holy Island, which can be walked only when the sea allows. The geography is real: each end is a place genuinely associated with Cuthbert, the most venerated saint of the medieval north of England.
Devised, not inherited
The path is not medieval. It was devised, waymarked and opened in 1996 by the regional council and its partners as a modern long-distance trail laid deliberately along a real Cuthbert geography, rather than a road anyone walked in the seventh century. Bede is the source for the life it commemorates. The distinction matters because the walk belongs to the recent movement that has created heritage pilgrim routes across Europe, threading a contemporary trail through authentic historical sites without pretending to be a surviving medieval road.