Walks you can reach from Ribblehead by train
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Horton-in-Ribblesdale Circular via Pen-y-Ghent (Yorkshire)
6 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
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).
Garsdale Circular via Baugh Fell (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
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).
Settle Circular via Malham Cove (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
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).
Clitheroe Circular via Pendle Hill (Lancashire)
45 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
Challenging circular climbing steeply to the summit of iconic Pendle Hill, with sweeping views over the Ribble Valley and southern Forest of Bowland, through the village of Pendleton.
Time: 4h30
Warnings: Steep climb; chilly and exposed on the summit. Decent footwear, waterproofs and extra layers essential.
Walk details: Discover Bowland (PDF).
Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Settle (Yorkshire)
6 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
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).
Garsdale to Kirkby Stephen (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
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).
Hellifield to Gargrave (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
Southern Dales fields and woodland crossing the River Aire, past Otterburn and Airton, descending over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to St Andrew's Church at Gargrave.
Time: 3h–5h30
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Gargrave to Skipton (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
Easy, peaceful Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath: locks, swing bridges, wharves and the River Aire near St Andrew's Church, Gargrave to Skipton.
Waterway: almost all along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Time: 2h–4h30
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Whalley to Clitheroe (Lancashire)
1 hour direct from Ribblehead.
Abbey precinct, town centre, riverside path, golf course, open pasture, old drove road, moorland ridge, plateau summit, steep scarp, lush valley, meandering river and nature reserve.
Time: 2h30–5h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Giggleswick to Long Preston (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
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).
Kirkby Stephen Circular via Eden River gorge (Westmorland)
30 minutes direct from Ribblehead.
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).
Whalley Circular via Whalley Viaduct (Lancashire)
1 hour direct from Ribblehead.
River Calder circular contrasting two viaducts: the 48-arch brick Whalley Viaduct and the disused ten-arch stone Martholme Viaduct, near the historic village of Whalley with its parish church and abbey ruins.
Whalley Viaduct: A 48-arch brick railway viaduct striding across the Calder valley.
Whalley Abbey: The ruins of a 14th-century Cistercian abbey beside the River Calder.
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).