Best walks from Lockwood

Lockwood Station to Huddersfield Station

The final section takes the walker through urban and residential streets and well-trodden footpaths once used by generations of mill workers, concluding in the magnificent setting of St George's Square. From Lockwood station the route climbs Park Road and follows ginnels and footpaths to Mill Street and Blackmoorfoot Road, descending to the Manchester Road junction. It crosses the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the River Colne with views of the curved Paddock Viaduct, distinctive for its four central lattice-steel-girder spans needed to cross the already built-up Colne Valley in the 1840s. Climbing Gledholt Bank, the route crosses the railway by a footbridge at Springwood Junction, a colossal piece of Victorian engineering, then follows Water Street past the former Conacher & Sons organ works and the twin tunnel ventilation shafts, one with a garden commemorating the Windrush generation. The walk continues through Old South Street and Trinity Street to St George's Square, completed in 1850, and the grand frontage of Huddersfield station, with the Head of Steam public house alongside.

2km.

Highlights: St George's Square (A grand square fronting Huddersfield's 1850 railway station, built at the joint expense of the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway & Canal Company).

Documented by Penistone Line Trail / Penistone Line Partnership.

Berry Brow Station to Lockwood Station

While the train sweeps across the Holme Valley on the majestic Lockwood Viaduct, the walker's progress is humbler, first along the riverside and then climbing through Beaumont Park to Lockwood. From Berry Brow station the route crosses the railway and descends past shops along Waingate to the main road, then turns down Stockwell Hill to the lovely St Paul's Church in the hamlet of Armitage Bridge, worth a look inside for its magnificent organ and restoration following a fire. The walk crosses the River Holme on a footbridge and follows tarmac paths past allotments and fishing ponds, then a track past Armitage Bridge Cricket Club and Park Valley Mill, with nearby Brooke's Mill housing the North Light Gallery and an exhibition on the Brooke family and Huddersfield's wool textile industry. Crossing the Meltham Road, the route climbs steeply into Beaumont Park, an ornate Victorian park with cascades, grottos, steep cliffs and viewing areas for the listed 32-arch Lockwood Viaduct, up to 122 feet high. A descent through residential streets and beneath the railway brings the walker to Lockwood station.

2km.

A wooden footbridge near Armitage Bridge can be slippery when wet, and the climb into Beaumont Park is steep.

Highlights: Lockwood Viaduct (A listed 32-arch railway viaduct up to 122 feet high, arguably the most impressive of the viaducts between Huddersfield and Penistone) and Beaumont Park (An ornate Victorian park with cascades, grottos, steep cliffs and viewing areas for the Lockwood Viaduct).

Documented by Penistone Line Trail / Penistone Line Partnership.