start date

1st -3rd May 2027

GPS File

A ‘field tested’ gpx file will be sent to your email address a week prior to the event.


start / finish line

The Fustian Needle, St Georges Square, Hebden Bridge

The sculpture, by Mike Williams, is of a “fustian knife”, which also serves as a giant sundial. Fustian knives were used in the manufacture of corduroy, a fabric for which Hebden Bridge was known throughout the world.

The knife points directly north towards Nutclough Mill, former home of Hebden Bridge Fustian Manufacturing Society Ltd, founded in 1870 - in its day, the largest worker-producer co-operative in Britain.


GPS TRACKER

Trackers are useful pieces of technology but are expensive and so on this event the organiser will not be providing GPS trackers. Many riders have their own personal GPS trackers and they are readily available to hire if a riders chooses to have one for the event. There will be a ‘dot watching’ page hosted by an established outfit where riders can register their own GPS trackers.

 

Register

To register for the event newsletter and pre entry updates send your name and email address to: yorkshiredivide@gmail.com with the ref ‘Pennine 500’

 
 
 
 
 

INspirational bit

 

“I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

 

“And the moors were always there and never without their promise.”

J.B.Priestley

Bright Days (1944)

 

“Water, that strong white stuff, can here be seen at its origins. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.”

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain (1977)