Todmorden Centenary Way
A 24-mile long-distance path in Lancashire and West Yorkshire. This demanding route in the heart of the Pennine hills is a circular walk around the county border town of Todmorden. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SD 936 242
Distance: 24 miles (38 km)
Time: 9–12 hours
Duration: 1–2 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (1:25,000):
OL21 South Pennines – Burnley, Hebden Bridge, Keighley and Todmorden
Summary
The Todmorden Centenary Way is a demanding walking route around the Pennine town of Todmorden. It was created to commemorate the centenary of the granting of borough status and takes in all of the area’s distinguishing geographical features, which include moorland, valleys, woodland, reservoirs, villages, and the ruins of buildings and settlements from various ages of the region’s history.
The route is waymarked with a circular disc bearing a yellow arrow on a green background with the wording “Todmorden Centenary Way”. The walk begins and ends in the centre of town, visiting Hole Bottom, Whirlaw Stones, Great Rock, Staups Dam, Dean, Mulcture Hall, the Rochdale Canal at Eastwood, Holmcote Bridge, Stoodley Pike Monument, Withens Gate, Bald Scout Hill, Coldwell Hill, Langfield Common, Warland Reservoir, Warland, Steanor Bottom Toll House, Summit Tunnel, Cranberry Dam, Inchfield, Foul Clough, Freeholds Top, Trough Edge, Inchfields Moor, Counting Hill, Holden Gate, Lower Moor, Bearnshaw Tower, Cornholme, Pudsey, Shore, Hudson Moor, Harley Wood, the River Calder, Ewood Hall, and Buckley Wood.