This walk on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales has a bit of everything. Rolling pastureland, wild moorland, riverscapes and historic buildings can all be found within a relatively short distance.
This South Pennine walk starts from Oxenhope in the Worth valley and completes a circuit of Ovenden Moor.
In 2008 the Baildon Local History Society contacted Baildon Parish Council and asked about producing Heritage Trail booklets based on the walks that the History Society sometimes conducted people on. The History Society showed examples of what they had put together.
There are thirteen long distance routes in England & Wales which have been designated by the Countryside Agency as 'Official' National Trails . Ten of these are fully developed and three are still under development in places. The first National trail was the 412 km Pennine Way, opened in 1965. The longest is the Southwest Coastal Path which follows the coastline around the South West of England from Somerset in the North to Dorset in the South.
A walk linking three Yorkshire Abbeys (Fountains, Bolton and Jervaulx) and three Yorkshire castles (Ripley, Bolton and Middleham), which uses stretches of some already established routes - Harrogate Ringway, Dales Way, Yoredale Way and Ripon Rowel
The Richmond Way starts from the main gate of Lancaster Castle and ends below the great keep of Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire. The walk encompasses sections of the Lower Lune Valley, the limestone country around Ingleborough and Whernside, the moorlands and fells of the central Pennines and the central and Northern Valleys of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The route is almost entirely along field, woodland and riverside paths, ancient tracks and quiet country lanes.