Walks you can reach from Gargrave by train
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Settle Circular via Malham Cove (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Gargrave.
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).
Horton-in-Ribblesdale Circular via Pen-y-Ghent (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Gargrave.
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).
Ribblehead Circular via Whernside (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Gargrave.
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).
Garsdale Circular via Baugh Fell (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Gargrave.
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).
Giggleswick to Long Preston (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Gargrave.
Ribble Way riverside through the market town of Settle, Runley Mill, Turnpike House and a viewpoint towards Pendle Hill.
Time: 3h
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Settle (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Gargrave.
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).
Clapham to Giggleswick (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Gargrave.
Limestone hill country of caves, cairns and crags, dropping to the hamlet of Feizor and rising again with views to Pendle Hill and Giggleswick School Chapel before a steep descent. One of the finest of the Bentham Line walks.
Time: 4h30
Warnings: Strenuous full day over limestone hill country; sturdy footwear and a map recommended.
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Clapham to Bentham (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Gargrave.
Dales farmland and open hillside between Clapham and High Bentham, with the bulk of Ingleborough rising alongside.
Ingleborough: One of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, a flat-topped fell dominating the skyline above Clapham.
Time: 2h30
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Dent to Ribblehead (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Gargrave.
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).
Garsdale to Kirkby Stephen (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Gargrave.
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).
Wennington to Carnforth (Lancashire)
45 minutes direct from Gargrave.
Fields, lanes and canal towpath through the Lune valley, past Loyn Bridge near Gressingham, then over Kellet along the Lancaster Canal into Carnforth.
Time: 5h30
Warnings: Strenuous full-day walk; can be split into shorter legs.
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Carnforth to Silverdale (Lancashire)
1 hour direct from Gargrave.
Limestone scenery of the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape: lanes, woodland and outcrops, climbing Warton Crag for sweeping views over Morecambe Bay. Rare butterflies, moths and lizards on the crag.
Time: 2h30
Walk details: Discover Bowland (PDF).