Hebden Bridge to Cottonstones
Distance: 14.5 miles
Ascent: 950m
Weather: dry, warm
Toads: dirty
Cats: in drains
Hebden Bridge is still very hilly. We followed the Pennine Way Loop signs up the other side of the valley, up to the ruined St Thomas a Beckett church in Heptonstall.
There were lots of walkers around, but we didn't find out if anything was going on. A slippery stone path led down the wooded hillside toward the car park for Hardcastle Crags, with its many visitors.
We continued on along a lot a lane, and then dropped down another slippery path to a waterfall and footbridge. Here we had some elevenses.
The other side of the valley was more open moorland, and we followed some clear paths up to High Brown Knoll and
Dimmin Dale on Midgley Moor.
We had lunch on an outcrop overlooking the Calderdale Way, which we then crossed and went down into Mytholmroyd. Around here the footpath disappeared completely and we had to take a detour around the road and back up the hillside, on to Waterstalls Road green lane, where we met a friendly runner and his dogs, and then some friendly cows and their farmer.
We followed the Calderdale Way on to quiet country lanes and into Cottonstones and the Alma Inn.
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