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The area has one of the best rights-of-way networks in
Britain and several national way-marked trails pass
through its dramatic and varied scenery.
Britain's first and best known National Trail, the Pennine
Way, passes close by. It follows a 270 mile route from
Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders to Edale in
Derbyshire. It is one of only 12 formally designated
National Trails in England and Wales.
The Calderdale Way, a 50-mile (80 km) circular route
around the Calder Valley, skirts the town. It is one of
the most popular local routes either for walking in chunks
or as a more serious two day hike.
A growing network of bridleways are making excellent
mountain-biking and horse-riding routes, including 42 mile
Mary Towneley Loop which passes through Calderdale,
Rochdale and Lancashire and has become a favourite with
walkers, off-road bikers and riders. It was the first
section of the Pennine Bridleway National Trail to open,
and features wild moorland, hidden reservoirs, ancient
packhorse trails, valleys, gritstone walls and mill
chimneys. The Pennine Bridleway itself will extend nearly
300 miles from Derbyshire to Northumbria.
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