Tracks and Trails

Walking in Yorkshire

Favourite Walks in the Yorkshire Pennines

Walks on the Yorkshire Pennies

1. Wadsworth Moor and High Brown Knoll

Start and Finish: National Trust Car Park at Hardcastle Crags at Bridge End
Approximate time for the walk: 4 hours
Distance: 6 and a half miles
Landscape: Moorland, rivers and forest.
Map: O/S Outdoor Leisure South Pennines
Description of the walk:

This walk starts at the National Trust Car Park at Bridge End. From the car park, go left down the road over the bridge, passing the toilet blocks. Just after the toilet block, turn left up a walled path. Carry on straight ahead, taking the 2nd left hand path (a bridleway sign for Pecket Wall). Continue straight ahead and cross over a beck. Climb up the other side of the beck and turn left by a way mark sign. Continue on this path which leads to a road. Cross over the road and take the path opposite. Reach the next road and turn right down the road for 200 yards.

1. Immediately turn left at the Calderdale Way. Walk up to the cottage and go left to meet a green lane. Continue straight ahead, you will reach a folk in the path. Turn right on the right-hand branch and continue straight ahead to reach an unmade road. Now take the walled path opposite Old Town Slack Farm. When this vehicle track swings right of the farm, go straight ahead, passing over the stile and to open moor. Now turn right round a wall corner. In a few yards, the track bears left with Moor side Farm to your right. Carry on to reach a track junction. At this junction, take left-hand (blue arrow) path and continue along this path.
2. This track leads to an old house comes into view in 50 yards. Just past the house, the path forks. We take left-hand path which leads onto Wadsworth Moors. Continue straight ahead for 600 yards. You will now reach marker posts. Carry straight ahead on this track (take no diversions) off the main path.
3. This track leads to a wall end. Immediately, take a sharp turn left. Follow this path for 500 yards until the wire fence turns right to cross a beck. Continue straight ahead on this path. This leads to a stone bridge. Do not go over cross the bridge but turn left, with the white channel on your right. Follow this path for a few hundred yards which leads to another blue marker post. Turn sharply left here to walk to another blue marker post after another few hundred of walking. Continue walking on the path, passing a few posts. This path leads to High Brown Knoll. This leads to a cross path. Just beyond the cross track is another blue marker. Continue straight ahead pass the blue marker over the moor to get a wide cross track. Turn left along the wide track and go straight ahead to descend off the moor.
4. Continue to reach the road. At the road, turn left for just 100 yards and then turn right over a stile, next to a gate. Continue down the path straight-down taking no diversions to reach the road. Once you reach the road, turn right. Walk straight ahead for just about 200 yards and turn left over a bridleway sign. Follow the path down hill and turn right over Lumb Bridge. Continue up the path to where the path swings left. Follow the path to the left with it. Continue straight ahead along the path.
5. This path reaches a walled track. Turn left along this track. Follow this track all the way back (take no diversions) all the way back to National Trust Car Park overflow car park. Turn left down a path, to reach lower car park. This where the walk finishes and concludes.

2.Langfield Edge to Stoodley Pike

Start and Finish: Todmorden
Approximate time for the walk: 4 hours
Distance: 7 miles
Landscape: Open Moorland
Map: O/S Outdoor Leisure 21 South Pennines
Description of the walk:

1. Start in the centre of Todmorden. Make you way to the Todmorden Town Hall. From here, turn left down the left-hand side of A6033 (Rochdale road) to pass over a bridge over a canal, to meet the Golden Lion pub. Just after the pub, turn left up the road. This first section is very steep as you wind your way out of Todmorden. Continue up the road on its left-hand side and take the first road on your left. Continue up this very steep road which leads eventually leads to Longfield Terrace. At Longfield Terrace, turn left on track and continue straight along this track up hill. When this path folks, take the left-hand branch track and continue past the farm and continue up the track, up-hill, to meet an road. Turn left along the road and continue along the road to reach the Shepherd’s Rest pub.
2. At the pub, look opposite and you see a track leading up hill. Turn right and follow this track up hill(no diversions) to reach the top of Langfield Edge. You reach some quarry working, turn left up the path. Continue straight ahead till the path again folks. Keep right as the path continue up-hill passing the summit of Langfield Edge. Continue straight ahead on this path (take no diversions).
3. This path eventually meets another path by a waymarker stone. Continue straight ahead on this path and take no diversion paths as you slowly head towards to impressive monument of Stoodley Pike in the distance. Continue straight ahead, with the last section on the flat to arrive finally at the monument of Stoodley Pike.
4. At the monument of Stoodley Pike, go past it and right and continue straight down a downhill path to meet a stile in a wall. Continue over the stile and continue on for about 40 yards, to meet another ladder stile. Now, turn left over this stile and continue down downhill along this path. This path leads down another wide track called London Road and leave your existing.
5. Turn left on this track as it descends down to the small hamlet of Mankinholes. Follow this track taking no diversions to arrive at this small hamlet of Mankinholes. W hen you reach this small hamlet, turn right and straight along the road for about 120 yards.
6. After about 120 yards after the last house, take a path on your left signposted ‘Calderdale Way.’ Continue straight ahead on this path to emerge at the Top Brink Pub at another small hamlet called Lumbutts. At the pub, go right on path between houses and continue straight along the path between a fence and wall, to reach a gap stile. Continue straight ahead over the wall and turn right across the field to another gap stile in the wall. Continue over the wall down the steep sided valley to meet a farm track. Continue down the farm track to meet a minor road at some cottages. Continue down this minor road and over a bridge over of the Rochdale Canal.
7. Now turn left down by canal, to reach the path on the canal. Walk up the canal as you slowly head take towards the centre of Todmorden. Continue straight ahead to reach the bridge you passed over at the start of walk. Take path up to regain the street path and turn right to finish and conclude this walk.

3. Haworth’s Bronte Moor

Start and Finish: Haworth
Approximate time for the walk: 4 hours
Distance: 7 and a half miles
Landscape: Moorland
Map: O/S Outdoor Leisure 21 South Pennines
Description of the walk:

1. This walk starts in the main car park at top end of Haworth. From the car park, turn left up the cobbed lane, passing a Haworth Moor sign. This path becomes a paved field that leads to the Haworth-Stanbury road. Turn left and go along this road for about 100 yards. After 100 yards you will meet another road. Turn left on this road with sign of Penistone Hill. Continue straight ahead on this road to meet another road.
2. Cross over this road with care and go the track opposite. This track is signed to Bronte Way and Top Withins. Continue straight ahead on this path (no diversions) to reach the Bronte seat bridge. At Bronte seat bridge, cross the bridge and carry straight up to meet an three-way signpost.
3. Turn left at this sign post, sign-posted ‘Top Withins’. Follow this path up-hill taking no diversions to emerge at a beck. Cross over the beck by stepping stones and carry straight-ahead up hill to emerge a way marker signpost by a old ruined building.
4. Turn right at the sign-post for Stanbury and Haworth to follow this path down-hill. This path is the Pennine Way. Carry straight ahead on this path, as you follow this track down-hill (take no diversiosn) to emerge at a white farmhouse
5. Continue straight ahead passing a white farmhouse and then turn left at folk in the paths. Continue to reach another building, Lower Heights Farm. Pass by this farm for another 500 yards to arrive another folk of paths to chose. Here take the left-hand folk and continue straight-ahead down the path, sign-posted ‘Stanbury and Haworth.’ Continue along this path track to meet a road.
6. Turn right along the road to go through Stanbury. Turn right on road to Oxenhope. Continue straight ahead, go over the dam of Lower Laithe Reservoir dam. When you emerge at the far-end of the reservoir dam, turn left on a road. Follow this road up hill to meet another road by Haworth cemetery.
7. Turn left down the road and continue down the road into Haworth. This is where the walk finishes and concludes.

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