Walks you can reach from Settle by train
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Horton-in-Ribblesdale Circular via Pen-y-Ghent (Yorkshire)
8 minutes direct from Settle.
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)
15 minutes direct from Settle.
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).
Clitheroe Circular via Pendle Hill (Lancashire)
30 minutes direct from Settle.
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).
Garsdale Circular via Baugh Fell (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Settle.
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).
Hellifield to Gargrave (Yorkshire)
7 minutes direct from Settle.
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)
15 minutes direct from Settle.
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).
Dent to Ribblehead (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Settle.
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)
30 minutes direct from Settle.
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).
Whalley to Clitheroe (Lancashire)
45 minutes direct from Settle.
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)
5 minutes direct from Settle.
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).
Whalley Circular via Whalley Viaduct (Lancashire)
45 minutes direct from Settle.
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).
Kirkby Stephen Circular via Eden River gorge (Westmorland)
45 minutes direct from Settle.
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).