Places to explore near Hebden Bridge

Bohemian mill town in the Calder gorge, its double-decker houses stacked above the Rochdale Canal and independent shops.

0.3 km E · West Yorkshire

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

1.6 km SW · spans 6 counties

The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

1.6 km SW · spans 8 counties

Hilltop weavers' village of gritstone cottages, a ruined medieval church beside its Georgian replacement and Sylvia Plath's grave.

2 km NW · West Yorkshire

National Trust wooded gorge of the Hebden Water, threaded with paths past the old Gibson Mill.

3.2 km NW

A 121-foot peace monument of 1856 crowning the moor above the Calder Valley.

3.6 km SW

Secluded waterfall and packhorse bridge in the wooded Crimsworth Dean above Hebden Bridge.

4.1 km N

Ruined moorland farmhouse widely linked to Wuthering Heights, high on the Pennine watershed above Haworth.

8.2 km N

Moorland cascade and clapper bridge on the walk from Haworth out to Top Withens.

8.6 km N

Heritage steam line from Keighley to Oxenhope through Bronte country, star of The Railway Children.

9 km NE

The world's only surviving Georgian cloth hall, a grand colonnaded courtyard of shops and events in Halifax.

10.5 km E

Steep cobbled Main Street climbing to the parsonage where the Brontes wrote, the moors of Wuthering Heights beginning at the top.

10.8 km NE · West Yorkshire

A Pennine hamlet of old stone bridges and a ruined hall in a wooded valley on the Brontë Way near Colne

11.8 km NW

Burnley's grand 440-acre park of woodland, lawns and lakes around the Grade I hall, gallery and museum.

14.2 km W

The taproom and kitchen of Timothy Taylor's, Keighley brewers of Landlord, Britain's classic cask ale.

15.3 km NE

The longest single canal in Britain, crossing the Pennines by Bingley's Five Rise Locks and the moors above Burnley.

15.6 km W · spans 5 counties

The steepest staircase of locks in Britain — five chambers lifting the Leeds & Liverpool Canal about 60 feet in a single flight.

17.1 km NE

Britain's first national park: gritstone edges in the Dark Peak, limestone dales in the White.

17.5 km S

Britain's longest and highest canal tunnel, with boat trips beneath the Pennine moors from Marsden.

17.6 km S

Titus Salt's model mill village of 1851 on the Aire, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Salts Mill's Hockney galleries.

18.1 km NE · West Yorkshire

Titus Salt's vast 1853 mill, now home to David Hockney galleries, bookshops and a cafe in the World Heritage village.

18.3 km NE

Pennine village pub near Pendle Hill with a strong beer and food reputation.

19 km NW

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

19.4 km NW

A grand Victorian cemetery of obelisks and mausolea laid out by Bradford wool merchants.

19.4 km E

Bronze of accused Pendle witch Alice Nutter by the water at Roughlee, marking the 1612 trials.

19.8 km NW

Handsome Saddleworth conservation village of weavers' cottages around a sloping cobbled square.

20.6 km S · Greater Manchester

Woodland trail above Barley studded with carved witches, hares and goblins, telling the Pendle story.

21.3 km NW

Canal-side Uppermill museum tracing the woollen trade and Roman past of the Saddleworth villages.

21.7 km S

Restored 18th-century spa bath-house on Ilkley Moor with a plunge pool and a moorland cafe.

23.1 km NE

Heather moor of the famous song, scattered with the Twelve Apostles stone circle and prehistoric rock carvings.

23.2 km NE

Brooding whaleback of witch-trial fame.

23.4 km NW

Handsome reservoir ringed by gritstone edges and RSPB moorland where Saddleworth meets the Peak District.

23.7 km S

A quiet Yorkshire dale of reservoirs, gritstone rocks and wooded gorges, next door to the Dales but with room to breathe

23.9 km NE

Millstone-grit outcrops on the edge of Ilkley Moor, a climbers' and walkers' magnet with wide Wharfedale views.

23.9 km NE

Refined moor-edge spa town on the Wharfe, gateway to Ilkley Moor and the Cow and Calf, with a Bettys on the Grove.

23.9 km NE · West Yorkshire

Tall Victorian monument to Sir Robert Peel crowning Holcombe Hill above Ramsbottom, with wide Pennine views.

24 km SW

Huddled Holme Valley town of terraced hillsides, famous as the setting for Last of the Summer Wine.

24.2 km SE · West Yorkshire

A Grade II-listed 1935 lido with a round, mushroom-shaped pool on the grass below Ilkley Moor.

24.6 km NE

Remarkably complete medieval castle, gateway to Dales.

24.7 km N

The first canal across the Pennines — 91 broad locks between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, reopened whole in 2002.

0.2 km SW · Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire

The original recreational-route circuit of 1978 — a fifty-mile loop of Calderdale's moor edges, packhorse ways and mill towns.

0.8 km NW · West Yorkshire

Canalside pub between the water and the wooded valley wall, immortalised in a Ted Hughes poem.

1 km W

River-and-cut navigation up the Calder valley from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge, gateway to the Pennine canals.

3.7 km E · West Yorkshire

Village pub by St Mary's church where Branwell Bronte borrowed from the reading-room library upstairs.

5 km E

Huddled village of 17th-century houses around St Mary's church and the Lord Nelson, where Branwell Bronte ran the nearby station.

5.1 km E · West Yorkshire

Hillside pub above the Calder at Lumbutts with wide valley views, a favourite with walkers.

5.2 km SW

Refurbished moor-edge inn at Lumbutts looking over Calderdale, a stop on the walk to Stoodley Pike.

6.3 km SW

Pennine mill town where three valleys meet, a grand town hall on the old Yorkshire-Lancashire border below Stoodley Pike.

6.3 km SW · West Yorkshire