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Mary Towneley Loop — Penine Bridleway

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Yorkshire And The Humber

Calderdale

Todmorden

Mary Towneley Loop — Penine Bridleway

Hard

5.0

(5)

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Mary Towneley Loop — Penine Bridleway

06:54

72.0km

1,620m

Mountain biking

The Mary Towneley Loop, a challenging part of the Pennine Bridleway, offers a demanding mountain biking experience across 44.8 miles (72.0 km) with a significant 5304 feet (1616 metres) of elevation gain. You will navigate mixed terrain, from stone causeways and gravel paths to grassy tracks and rough packhorse trails,…

Last updated: April 23, 2026

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Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 4.00 km for 524 m

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Parking

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114 m

Packhorse Trail to Rake End

Highlight (Segment) • Historical Site

The climb from The Shepherd's Rest to the top of Rake End is challenging in all weathers, steep in places and very rewarding to get to the top of without …

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19.9 km

Rooley Moor Road (Cotton Famine Road)

Highlight • Trail

Doing this clockwise from summit this is the first real climb of the mtl. Not overly steep but a long climb on cobbles and rough hardcore and gravel. Built by …

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25.8 km

Cragg Quarry Tramway on the Pennine Bridleway

Highlight • Cycleway

Top of this good quality track. Wonderful views to the surrounding countryside.

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39.1 km

Mary Towneley Monument

Highlight • Viewpoint

Around 35km into the ride clockwise from summit, while dropping down from deerplay to the village of cliviger you pass through a gate into a field and just to your …

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41.1 km

The Long Causeway Bridleway

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Could be muddy in the wet as goes across a field

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44.6 km

Shedden Clough Gravel Track

Highlight • Trail

Gravel track. Keeps some traction when wet.

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45.6 km

Cant Clough Reservoir

Highlight • Viewpoint

If you're riding the Mary Towneley Loop clockwise, you'll likely be slightly tired by now. This is a view back south towards the windfarm at Bent's Pasture. There's a steep …

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46.6 km

Hurstwood Reservoir

Highlight • MTB Park

Was there a week ago and the bottom half of the trail has been ruined by the weather and hooligan trail builders. i would give it a miss.

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53.6 km

Track to Gorple Lower Reservoir

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Grass up the middle and lots of sheep

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54.9 km

Lower Gorple Reservoir Descent

Highlight (Segment) • Lake

Open, spectacular, and - if you've the nerve for it, very fast and drifty. It's definitely better as a descent than a climb - more because of what's to come …

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56.4 km

View of Lower Gorple Reservoir from Standing Stone Hill

Highlight • Viewpoint

That's a big climb done - you can relax a bit now and enjoy the views before the descent!

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65.6 km

Beaumont Clough Bridge

Highlight • Trail

Beaumont Clough bridge presents something of a mystery - it's surprisingly high up the valley (and there's a fun bit of trail riding down to it) but the precise reason …

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67.5 km

View of Stoodley Pike and Hebden Bridge Valley

Highlight • Viewpoint

The view from here is spectacular all the way to the bottom of the valley - even if you haven't got an extraordinary cloud inversion like this one to enjoy. …

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68.0 km

View of Stoodley Pike

Highlight • Monument

Great climb up towards Stoodley Pike a 37 meter monument built in 1856

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72.0 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

22.5 km

19.4 km

17.6 km

5.88 km

5.70 km

994 m

Surfaces

41.2 km

12.2 km

8.62 km

3.89 km

3.36 km

2.82 km

Elevation

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Highest point (460 m)

Lowest point (110 m)

Weather

Wednesday 6 May

12°C

3°C

13 %

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Trail Reviews

Andy M

September 16, 2022, Mary Townley Loop Day 1 - Rooley Moor Rd to Jack Bridge

We mountain biked the Mary Townley Loop over two days, staying at the Hebden Bridge Camping site next to the New Delight Inn. This site is right on MT Loop. In mid September we had lovely weather, dry, but on the cool side. I have also uploaded the second day which is a bit shorter.

Mary Towneley Loop — Penine Bridleway

Packhorse Trail to Rake End

Rooley Moor Road (Cotton Famine Road)

Cragg Quarry Tramway on the Pennine Bridleway

Mary Towneley Monument

The Long Causeway Bridleway

Shedden Clough Gravel Track

Cant Clough Reservoir

Hurstwood Reservoir

Track to Gorple Lower Reservoir

Lower Gorple Reservoir Descent

View of Lower Gorple Reservoir from Standing Stone Hill

Beaumont Clough Bridge

View of Stoodley Pike and Hebden Bridge Valley

View of Stoodley Pike

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