Walking Britain South Pennines Walks,Walking Routes & Hiking Trails
The South Pennines walks listed below include easy low-level walks to harder routes across the wild moors. All walks are free to download and print and all routes have GPS files. The walks cover all the major valleys and areas of high moorland from the Brontë moors in the north to Bleaklow in the south. The Pennine Way crosses this area and walks including sections of this long distance footpath area also included in the list below.
| Walk | Description | Grade | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1243★ | Haworth Moor and Bronte Bridge | easy | 3.50 |
| 3159★ | March Haigh Reservoir & Eastergate Bridge from Marsden | easy/mod | 5.00 |
| 1793★ | Lothersdale from Cowling | easy/mod | 6.00 |
| 3719★ | Ramsden Wood & Hades Hill from Walsden | easy/mod | 6.10 |
| 1411★ | Walsden to Warland Reservoir | easy/mod | 6.50 |
| 2634★ | Broadstone Hill & the Cotton Famine Road | moderate | 7.00 |
| 1336★ | Sowerby Bridge and Norland Moor | easy/mod | 7.00 |
| 1458★ | Greave and The Rossendale Way | easy/mod | 7.00 |
| 2121★ | Crimsworth Dean, Lumb Bridge & Hardcastle Crags | moderate | 7.50 |
| 1135★ | Top Withins and the Bronte Bridge from Haworth | moderate | 8.00 |
| 1307★ | A circuit of Ovenden Moor from Oxenhope | moderate | 8.00 |
| 1849★ | Blackstone Edge and the Pennine Way without a car | moderate | 8.00 |
| 2553★ | Greenfield Reservoir & Raven Stones from Dovestone | moderate | 8.00 |
| 2946★ | Buckstones and Linsgreave Head from Marsden | moderate | 8.75 |
| 1829★ | Holme & Marsden Clough from Ramsden Reservoir | moderate | 9.00 |
| 3015★ | Lobb Mill, Stoodley Pike & Withens Clough Reservoir | moderate | 9.00 |
| 1900★ | Standedge Trail from Marsden | moderate | 9.00 |
| 2630★ | Upper Holme Valley & Ramsden Clough | moderate | 9.00 |
| 3380★ | Blackstone Edge from Hollingworth Lake | moderate | 9.00 |
| 2561★ | Digley & Ramsden Reservoirs from Wessenden Head | moderate | 9.50 |
| 2661★ | Keighley Moor Reservoir & Hitching Stone from Cowling | moderate | 9.50 |
| 2518★ | Black Hill & Four Reservoirs | moderate | 10.00 |
| 2705★ | Oxenhope to Hebden Bridge without a car | moderate | 11.00 |
| 2644★ | Marsden and the Standedge Trail | moderate | 11.00 |
| 1291★ | Stoodley Pike from Hebden Bridge | moderate | 11.00 |
| 2606★ | Hoof Stones Height, Noah Dale and Colden Water | moderate | 11.50 |
| 2613★ | Boundary Walk from Marsden to Holmfirth | moderate | 13.00 |
| 2926★ | Cupwith & Shooter's Nab from Marsden | moderate | 13.00 |
| 2600★ | Chew Reservoir & the Pennine Way | mod/hard | 14.00 |
| 2359★ | Cuckoo Walk & Bacon Butties from Marsden | hard | 19.50 |
| 1697★ | Marsden to Edale challenge | very hard | 22.00 |
★ GPS file ☩ Route profile
