The area covered by the Pennine 500 is within the red box extending from the Calder Valley in the south to Cross Fell in the north, Haworth to the east and Slaidburn Forest to the west.
Pennine 500
Rough stuff trail along the backbone of England
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)
