Walks you can reach from Appleby by train
Westmorland · North of England
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Garsdale Circular via Baugh Fell (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Appleby.
Wild moorland, pathless plateau, rough pasture, lonely valleys, tarns, infant river fords and a waterfall.
Time: 6h
Warnings: Pathless, rough ground.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ribblehead Circular via Whernside (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Appleby.
Moorland, mosses, heather, cotton grass, high plateau with tarns, elevated scarp path, steep descent on engineered path, farm tracks, limestone country with pavements, shake holes, sink holes and dry streambeds.
Time: 5h30
Warnings: Can be boggy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Horton-in-Ribblesdale Circular via Pen-y-Ghent (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Appleby.
Open moorland, remote valleys, engineered hill paths, ancient trading routes, rocky scrambles, boggy plateau and sweeping Dales views.
Time: 4h30
Warnings: Can be boggy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Settle Circular via Malham Cove (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Appleby.
Limestone outcrops, crags, pavements, caves, dry valleys, steep pastures, gravel farm tracks, stony ground, moorland and panoramic upland views.
Time: 6h
Warnings: Hard on feet/knees.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Garsdale to Kirkby Stephen (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Appleby.
Remote moorland ridge, lonely dales, upland fells, scarp edges, river pastures, commons and bucolic valley farmland.
Time: 6h
Warnings: Can be boggy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Dent to Ribblehead (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Appleby.
Grassy moorland, high fells, quiet roads, good tracks, open views, railway viaducts, becks and pastures.
Time: 5h
Warnings: Can be boggy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Settle (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Appleby.
Wild remote fell, moorland plateau, Pennine Way paths, lonely pastures, limestone country, waterfall, elevated bridleways above valley and views of green dales and tarn.
Time: 3h–6h
Warnings: Can be boggy/rough.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Kirkby Stephen Circular via Eden River gorge (Westmorland)
15 minutes direct from Appleby.
Upland fell, exposed moorland, peat bog, limestone country with shake holes and swallow holes, river gorge, narrow woodland path, scenic valley, heathery commons and pastures.
Time: 5h
Warnings: Can be boggy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Settle to Hellifield (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Appleby.
Recommended: The views are great - especially from the top of the hill. Climbs steadily out of Settle, the first kilometres uphill and quite steep but on tarmac and good tracks, then becomes a wide track over open moorland before descending towards Long Preston, finishing across lanes and fields. A few gates, no stiles and a lot of it is on old tarmacked tracks. Long Preston, about two thirds of the way, has pubs and a station, so the walk can be split there.
Hilly: a third on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.
Time: 2h30–5h30
Lunch: A couple of pubs at Long Preston, roughly two thirds of the way.
1 end-of-walk reward: the Black Horse
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Ribblehead to Horton-in-Ribblesdale (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Appleby.
Both natural beauty and historical interest abound; the view back to Pen-y-ghent was really impressive. A valley walk that weaves from one side of the railway to the other, with enough height gained for good views. Field paths and limestone pavement and a stretch of B-road; a National Nature Reserve path that is stony and rough at times with stone paving across boggier sections. Gates including one with steps. Crosses a level crossing. Passes through the Wild Ingleborough National Nature Reserve, with wild flowers and moorland birds. Weaves across the Settle-Carlisle Railway and passes railway cottages, an old limekiln and a 17th-century farmhouse. An optional diversion via Alum Pot crosses private land with a suggested honesty-box donation.
The Ribblehead Viaduct: A 24-arch Victorian railway viaduct built 1870-1875 carrying the Settle-Carlisle line across Batty Moss beneath Whernside.
Time: 3h–6h
Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Care needed on the busy B-road from Ribblehead towards Selside, with several stretches lacking verges or shoulders.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Reverse direction: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Garsdale (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Appleby.
Bentham to Settle (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Appleby.