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08 WEST YORKSHIRE HEBDEN DALE

4.4 miles/7km

3 hours

Moderate

215m

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When glaciers thawed 12,000 years ago, their copious meltwaters scoured immense valleys through the South Pennines, leaving higher tributaries to become astonishing, winding gorges. Hebden Dale is prime among

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