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Glorious Bike Rides
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Fabulous route – indeed challenging, especially cobble climbs like The Buttress (which we walked up!) but well worth the effort. We combined Wuthering Heights with A Calder Caper to form a weekend’s cycling based in Hebden Bridge. Thanks Jack for mapping out two excellent rides for us and also for your highly informative & enjoyable commentary in Lost Lanes North that accompanied the rides. For anyone thinking of staying in Hebden Bridge to cycle these two routes we can recommend the Hebden Bridge Hostel as a great place to stay
Currently half-way round this route. Amazing lanes, amazing scenery. The hills are pretty tough, but worth every view from the top.
Just a note that the Pack Horse Inn at Widdop is currently closed (mid Sep 2021) and for sale. Didn’t look like it was opening any time soon.
The pack horse inn has opened again.
Great news! Thanks for the update.
Jack
Packhorse closed again.
There is a good bridleway from Coldwell activity centre at the foot of Boulsworth hill following the Bronte Way. For people that like some rough stuff
Yes. A challenging route with lots of steep ups and downs, but the route relents with a contouring traverse of the Calder Valley, after Midgley, before plunging back into Hebden Bridge. Some really delightful, scenic sections, unique to Calderdale with abundant and evident historic appeal, but the section from Oxenhope to Wainstalls (effectively the rural hinterland of Halifax and Bradford, favoured by those into driving and parking up) is bleak and blighted with flytipping, agricultural waste and litter (I found it hard to “tune it out” . Haworth is rather as if the Brontës had partnered with Walt Disney and Blackpool Corporation.
I’m a Bradford local so perhaps I’m a little jaded by long term familiarity. Don’t let me put you off. There’s loads to enjoy.