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Events And Festivals
This years Walk and Ride Festival will take place between September 11th and September 26th 2010. It promises to once again be a fortnight packed with excellent walks, mountainbike and cycling events, horse rides, talks and much more. PROGRAMME IS NOW AVAILABLE HERE.
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Join us for a brilliant year of traditional and contemporary events plus visual and performing arts and some great festivals. Look out for museum open days, canal celebrations, steam railway galas, guided walks and MUCH more than we can list here…
This year’s Walk & Ride Festival builds upon last year’s successful Heritage Festival which attracted record numbers and encouraged people to get out and enjoy the South Pennines whilst leaving their car at home…
Places To See
Almost four centuries after their execution the memory of the Lancashire Witches still haunts Pendle Hill…
The Bronte novels Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre have made an international shrine of Haworth and its surrounding moors…
Three of Britain’s most scenic and historic canals cross the Pennines to link Lancashire and Yorkshire: the Leeds and Liverpool, the Rochdale and the Huddersfield Narrow…
A story which changed the world unfolds across this landscape: textiles and the birth of industrialisation…
The South Pennines takes in parts of Bradford, Calderdale, Craven and Kirklees in Yorkshire and Burnley, Pendle, and Rossendale in Lancashire and Oldham and Rochdale in Greater Manchester…
Things To Do
England’s finest network of rights-of-way puts the South Pennines at your feet. See the OS South Pennines Leisure Map. Tourist Information Centres (TICs) sell a huge range of walks publications…
The birthplace of many well known figures from the worlds of art and cinema, the South Pennines offers visitors some very unique cultural experiences…
Make a ‘Great Railway Journey of the World’ on the legendary Settle Carlisle Railway, direct from Keighley or Skipton…
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