Best walks from Keighley
MapJump on a train, get off at Keighley Station and lose yourself in a beautiful hike for the day.
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
Keighley Station to Ilkley Station
great views; amazing views to the south and east. A varied route climbing from town onto open moorland: cobbled paths and stone steps through Riddlesden, field and farm paths, then a long stretch of quiet but pavement-less moorland road (partly gravel) over Ilkley Moor and descending via steep cobbled and stepped paths and the tarmac paths of Mill Ghyll. Some unmarked sections. Crossing the moors there is rich birdlife including meadow pipits, curlew, lapwings, skylarks, swifts and buzzards. Good facilities at both ends.
Tough: steep ascents. 9km.
A long stretch of road onto Ilkley Moor with no usable verge (quiet but care needed); steep, rubbly short-cuts (Spicey Gill) that can be slippery and muddy when wet; some stiles and dilapidated gates; cattle and sheep in fields.