Luddenden

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

4.9 km W · West Yorkshire

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

5.4 km E

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

5.9 km W · spans 6 counties

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

6.1 km W · spans 8 counties

Winding stone village on the Ryburn, home to the medieval Old Bridge Inn, one of Yorkshire's oldest pubs.

6.6 km S · West Yorkshire

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

7 km W · West Yorkshire