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The South Pennines Heritage Festival 2008 will feature many themed events, focusing on special aspects of South Pennines life and landscape – social and industrial history, transport, art, music, literature, the environment, and local communities…

Our guide to the best events around the South Pennine region over the winter months of 2007/2008. From markets and craft fairs to carol concerts and exhibitions…

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…

A story which changed the world unfolds across this landscape: textiles and the birth of industrialisation…

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…

The Bronte novels Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre have made an international shrine of Haworth and its surrounding moors…

Almost four centuries after their execution the memory of the Lancashire Witches still haunts Pendle Hill…

Make a ‘Great Railway Journey of the World’ on the legendary Settle Carlisle Railway, direct from Keighley or Skipton…

The birthplace of many well known figures from the worlds of art and cinema, the South Pennines offers visitors some very unique cultural experiences…

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…