Places to explore near Walsden StationWalsden

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

0.7 km E · spans 6 counties

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

2.4 km E · spans 8 counties

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

4.6 km NE

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

7.7 km NE · West Yorkshire

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

8.1 km NE · West Yorkshire

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

8.7 km NE

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

0.1 km E · 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.

1.2 km N · West Yorkshire

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

1.6 km NE

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

1.9 km N · West Yorkshire

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

2.8 km NE

A country park in Greater Manchester.

6.6 km S

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

7.1 km NE

A hill in Greater Manchester.

7.2 km SE

Near Littleborough, this canal-feeder reservoir became a Victorian resort, the so-called Weighver's Seaport of the Pennine mill towns.

7.3 km S