Seven Valleys is a 162km / 100 mile circular trail that explores a corner of the South Pennines landscape renowned for its heather moorland, steep valley slopes and former mill towns that have reinvented themselves.
Hidden away from view there are ancient and modern track ways that radiate out through the South Pennines like green spokes from a hub. It is these packhorse tracks, drovers lanes and fast flowing greenways on reclaimed railway lines that we connect as we traverse this beautiful landscape heavy with the weight of extraction for wool, coal and water but still green and still public land.
Icons by Judith Broug aka missyredboots@mac.com
Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Milnsbridge: words by Jo Bell, the 1st Canal Laureate (2013)
Helm Edge Vineyard
The Pennine Skyline event heads north from the Calder Valley. The Seven Valleys goes south from the start line at Mytholmroyd Community Centre in the Calder Valley.
Embroidered cloth badge awarded at the finish line on Monday 25th
Stoodley Pike on the horizon, Calder Valley
