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 |
| 1336★ | Sowerby Bridge and Norland Moor | easy/mod | 7.00 |
| 1458★ | Greave and The Rossendale Way | easy/mod | 7.00 |
| 2634★ | Broadstone Hill & the Cotton Famine Road | moderate | 7.00 |
| 2121★ | Crimsworth Dean, Lumb Bridge & Hardcastle Crags | moderate | 7.50 |
| 1307★ | A circuit of Ovenden Moor from Oxenhope | moderate | 8.00 |
| 1135★ | Top Withins and the Bronte Bridge from Haworth | moderate | 8.00 |
| 2553★ | Greenfield Reservoir & Raven Stones from Dovestone | moderate | 8.00 |
| 1849★ | Blackstone Edge and the Pennine Way without a car | moderate | 8.00 |
| 2946★ | Buckstones and Linsgreave Head from Marsden | moderate | 8.75 |
| 2630★ | Upper Holme Valley & Ramsden Clough | moderate | 9.00 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2644★ | Marsden and the Standedge Trail | moderate | 11.00 |
| 1291★ | Stoodley Pike from Hebden Bridge | moderate | 11.00 |
| 2705★ | Oxenhope to Hebden Bridge without a car | 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
