Local Guides, Maps & Walking Books

FOR WALKERS

FOR CYCLISTS

FOR MOTORISTS

FOR BOATERS

Calderdale Way Guide- Calderdale Way Association (£4.99) The updated official guide to this 50-mile circular walk through some of Calderdale’s best scenery. Handy format, spiral bound, maps, full route details, points of interest, history, photos.

Calderdale Way (Walking Country) - Paul Hannon (£3.99)
48-page booklet with guide, outline maps, sketches, points of interest.

Walking Country: Calderdale - Paul Hannan (£5.99) 25 local walks (different from the above). Compact format. Full details, maps and line drawings.

Walking Country: Bronte Way - Paul Hannon (£4.50) A 45-mile linear walk between Oakwell Hall and Gawthorpe Hall via Shelf, Haworth and Wycoller.

Walking Country: Bronte Country - Paul Hannon (£5.50) 22 walks around Haworth including the moors and surrounding villages. New edition. .

Rambler’s Association Book of Kiddiwalks (£4.50) 35 Short family rambles in and near West Yorkshire, including five in Calderdale. All under 4 miles with interest for children.

There and Back with Geoff Boswell: Pennine Walks between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden (£3.50) 16 walks - half in each direction, from 5.5 to 14 miles, with full directions, descriptions, and colour photographs by the author.

The Bronte Way - Marje Wilson (£4.50) Eleven circular walks associated with the lives and novels of the Brontes. Descriptions, outline maps, illustrations.

Bridleways in the South Pennines No 1
Marsden & Delph to Haworth & Oxenhope South Pennines Packhorse Trails Trust (£9.95)
Colour strip-maps along a 32-mile linear route including The Buttress. Spiral-bound to fold back compactly and designed to be used on horseback, with info about gates and surfaces, etc.

Pennine Bridleway: Derbyshire to the South Pennines , £12.99
Britain’s first purpose-built long-distance bridleway, from Buxton to the east of Hebden Bridge, where it splits to form the Mary Towneley Loop.

PENNINE WAY
The Pennine Way passes, steeply, just to the west of the town.

Pennine Way North, Central and South maps (£9.95 each)
Each map covers a section suitable for a comfortable week of walking. Includes day walks. Waterproof, with accommodation and service info.

Pennine Way - Keith Carter (£10.99)
Britain's best-known National Trail winds for 256 miles over wild moorland and through quiet dales following the backbone of Northern England, and crossing three National Parks - the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland. Scale just under 1:20,000 (8cm or 3 1/8 inches to one mile. With colour photos, maps and plans

Pennine Way South (Edale to Bowes) - Tony Hopkins (£12.99)
This is a National Trail Guide, with relevant chunks of Ordnance Survey map included. One does wonder however how recently the author visited Hebden Bridge; he seems to think it's still a dark Satanic milltown. Boiler-room, indeed! The same author has produced Pennine Way North (Bowes to Kirk Yetholm), £12.99. We stock both.

The Pennine Way - from Edale to Kirk Yetholm - Martin Collins (£10)
From Cicerone, a handy little plastic bound guide with instructions, facts, maps and photos. Also the author has actually visited the town.

Pennine Way - Terry Marsh (£3.99)
The little Dalesman guide, very sketchy maps and a bit out-of-date. Though despite being published in 1997, more up-to-date than the official National Trail Guide on the sore question of Hebden Bridge ...

Pennine Way: Backbone of England - Tony Hopkins, £16.99 (due June 2005)
This year sees the 40th Anniversary of the Pennine Way. This is a large format, illustrated celebration of Britain's most famous long distance footpath. The background text provides the reader with information on landscape, flora, fauna, agriculture, rural life along the path and the history of the Pennine Way.

PICTORIAL

Moods of the Bronte Moors: exploring the Moors and Mills of the South Pennines - John Morrison, £12.95
Atmospheric and varied photographs of the area by well-known local writer and photographer.

Forgotten Landscape - Alastair Lee (£12.99)
Colour photographs focussing on the stunning natural beauty found in the Burnley, Pendle and Ribble Valley areas. Gets as near to us as Widdop, "possibly the most beautiful place in the UK, if not Europe".

Moods of the Yorkshire Dales - John Morrison (£12.95)
A sumptuous book of photographs from the author of the Milltown Quintet, who moonlights as a gifted landscape photographer. "A journey through the well-loved landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales and through all the varied moods and weathers."

FOR CYCLISTS

Calderdale Biking Guide
Paul Hannon (£2.50)
Pocket book of six "interesting, legal and practical rides" around the area. Sketch maps. line drawings and instructions.

FOR BOATERS

South Pennine Ring map
New canal cruising map from Geoprojects showing the Huddersfield and Rochdale Canals and connecting waterways, with information for boaters including locks, bridges and warnings of difficult places, recommended craft dimensions, useful phone numbers, a history of the canals, local places of interest and cross-sections. (£4.75)

Canal Companion: Pennine Waters (£7.95)
Includes the Rochdale Canal as well as the Leeds and Liverpool, Aire and Calder Navigation, Calder and Hebble Navigation and Huddersfield Broad Canal. Detailed large scale maps and useful info on local places to eat, shop and local transport plus running commentary and colour photos. Can also be used by walkers. Landscape format.

South Pennine Ring: A Walkers' and Boaters' Guide to the Rochdale and Huddersfield Canals
John Lower (£7.95)
Spiral bound; covers a seventy-mile circuit including the Rochdale, Huddersfield Narrow and Huddersfield Broad Canals and connecting parts of the Ashton Canal and Calder and Hebble Navigation. A detailed map on the right-hand page faces instructions and notes on the left. Colour photos.

Nicholson Guide to the Waterways 5: North West & the Pennines (£12.99)
New edition (2003) of the well-known regional waterways guide, spiral bound, and has Ordnance Survey maps with locks etc. over-printed, points of interest - including the "Great Wall of Tod" - and pubs and restaurants. Includes 9 other canals and navigations in the North West.

Huddersfield Broad & Narrow Canals, with the Ashton Canal (£4.99)
Single-sided map from Manchester to Mirfield with separate Huddersfield section, local information and heights above sea-level. Joint GEOprojects/British Waterways publication.

CANAL HISTORY- click here

FOR MOTORISTS

Ordnance Survey Street Atlas West Yorkshire
(£9.99)
3.5" to 1 mile. Covers the whole of West Yorkshire. Spiral-bound. Indexed.

Ordnance Survey Street Atlas West Yorkshire
(£5.99)
2.5" to 1 mile. Covers the whole of West Yorkshire. For those with good eyesight. Indexed.

VIDEOS

"Walks around Calderdale": from Pennine Country Productions, a series of four videos of historically-based local walks, 50 mins ea., £11.99 each -

1. Historic Villages and Hilltop Views (Mytholmroyd, Cragg Vale, Boulderclough, Luddenden, Midgley)

2. Woodland Crags and Secluded Valleys (Hebden Bridge, Hardcastle Crags, Crimsworth Dean, Pecket Well, Old Town)

3. Ancient Townships and Waterside Mills (Heptonstall, Slack, Colden Valley, Blackshaw Head, Jumble Hole Clough)

4. Pennine Town and Packhorse Trails (Todmorden, Langfield, Lumbutts, Mankinholes, Lobb Mill, Cross Stone, Whirlaw Rocks)

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A Walk on t'Cut: a Transpennine Journey on the Rochdale Canal
(video £12.99; DVD or US-compatible video £14.99)
A walk along the Rochdale Canal from the centre of Manchester to Sowerby Bridge, showing the changing landscapes, industrial features, boats and wildlife, with interviews and aerial views. From Ray Riches and P J Thornton.

Discovering Calderdale, Part 1 - video/DVD - Glyn Lee & P J Thornton, £12.99 each
A journey through some of the most interesting towns and villages of Calderdale, including Norland, Midgley, Luddenden, Cragg Vale and Walsden

Bronte Ways Video/DVD, Part 1 - Ray Riches & Peter Thornton, £12.99 ea.
A walk on the Bronte Way from Oakwell Hall ("Shirley country") to Haworth, with live interviews and spectacular scenery. 52 mins. Part 2 will explore Haworth and "Wuthering Heights" country more fully, then proceed to Gawthorpe Hall via Wycoller Village ("Jane Eyre")

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