Best walks from Bingley

Keighley Station to Bingley Station

A lovely, fairly well-used route with a delightful wooded section, excellent views from the fields, a riverside path beside the River Aire at Bingley. A fair climb at either end, with steps, narrow sections, kissing gates and stiles and footpaths that are muddy after rain. A shop at Long Lee towards Keighley, with benches at Long Lee Crick Club.

6km.

Steps, narrow sections and stiles.

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route

Bingley Station to Shipley Station

An easy, mostly flat walk almost entirely along the wide, well-compacted Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath, popular with cyclists, dog-walkers and buggy-pushers. The towpath switches sides at Dowley Gap locks and the canal crosses an aqueduct over the River Aire. The main route-finding is locating footbridges at each end and which have flights of steps. Follows the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Passes through the World Heritage village of Saltaire (Salts Mill), well worth a visit.

Easy: 5km, moderate ascents.

Busy roads to cross at each end (footbridges have flights of steps); be alert for cyclists on the towpath.

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route

Bingley Station to Baildon Station

Via the Shipley Glen Tramway.

Easy: 6km, moderate ascents.

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route