Walks you can reach from Shipley by train
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Settle Circular via Malham Cove (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Shipley.
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).
Horton-in-Ribblesdale Circular via Pen-y-Ghent (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Shipley.
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).
Gargrave to Skipton (Yorkshire)
30 minutes direct from Shipley.
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).
Hellifield to Gargrave (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Shipley.
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).
Giggleswick to Long Preston (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Shipley.
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).
Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Settle (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Shipley.
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).
Clapham to Giggleswick (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Shipley.
Limestone hill country of caves, cairns and crags, dropping to the hamlet of Feizor and rising again with views to Pendle Hill and Giggleswick School Chapel before a steep descent. One of the finest of the Bentham Line walks.
Time: 4h30
Warnings: Strenuous full day over limestone hill country; sturdy footwear and a map recommended.
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Clapham to Bentham (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Shipley.
Dales farmland and open hillside between Clapham and High Bentham, with the bulk of Ingleborough rising alongside.
Ingleborough: One of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, a flat-topped fell dominating the skyline above Clapham.
Time: 2h30
Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).
Settle to Hellifield (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Shipley.
Recommended: The views are great - especially from the top of the hill. Climbs steadily out of Settle, the first kilometres uphill and quite steep but on tarmac and good tracks, then becomes a wide track over open moorland before descending towards Long Preston, finishing across lanes and fields. A few gates, no stiles and a lot of it is on old tarmacked tracks. Long Preston, about two thirds of the way, has pubs and a station, so the walk can be split there.
Hilly: a third on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.
Time: 2h30–5h30
Lunch: A couple of pubs at Long Preston, roughly two thirds of the way.
1 end-of-walk reward: the Black Horse
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Garsdale (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Shipley.
Bentham to Settle (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Shipley.
Ribblehead to Horton-in-Ribblesdale (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Shipley.
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.