Walks from Ribblehead

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).

High moorland, steep mountain ascent, exposed plateau, limestone pavement, erratics, shake holes, pot holes, farm tracks, wooded gorge option and valley return under viaduct.

Ingleborough: One of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, a flat-topped fell dominating the skyline above Clapham.

Time: 7h

Warnings: Very exposed summit.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

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).

Both natural beauty and historical interest abound; the view back to Pen-y-ghent was really impressive. A valley walk that weaves from one side of the railway to the other, with enough height gained for good views. Field paths and limestone pavement and a stretch of B-road; a National Nature Reserve path that is stony and rough at times with stone paving across boggier sections. Gates including one with steps. Crosses a level crossing. Passes through the Wild Ingleborough National Nature Reserve, with wild flowers and moorland birds. Weaves across the Settle-Carlisle Railway and passes railway cottages, an old limekiln and a 17th-century farmhouse. An optional diversion via Alum Pot crosses private land with a suggested honesty-box donation.

The Ribblehead Viaduct: A 24-arch Victorian railway viaduct built 1870-1875 carrying the Settle-Carlisle line across Batty Moss beneath Whernside.

Time: 3h–6h

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Care needed on the busy B-road from Ribblehead towards Selside, with several stretches lacking verges or shoulders.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Reverse direction: the Saturday Walkers Club.

High moorland, steep mountain ascent, exposed plateau and largely flat finish from Ingleton to Bentham.

Ingleborough: One of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, a flat-topped fell dominating the skyline above Clapham.

Warnings: Very exposed summit.

Source: An alternative variant of Ingleborough via Ingleton – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).