Places to explore near Hebden Bridge StationHebden Bridge

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

0.5 km N · 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 W · spans 8 counties

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

2.5 km NW · West Yorkshire

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

3.4 km SW

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

3.7 km NW

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

4.6 km N

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

8.7 km N

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

9 km N

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

9.4 km NE

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

0.2 km NE · Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire

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

1.3 km W

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

1.4 km NW · West Yorkshire

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

3.3 km E · West Yorkshire

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

4.6 km E

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

4.8 km E · West Yorkshire

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

5 km SW

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

6.2 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