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37 Thieveley Pike and Cliviger Gorge

38 Bride Stones Moor

39 Luddenden Dean and Midgeley Moor

40 Stoodley Pike

41 Langfield Common

42 Blackstone Edge

43 Rooley Moor and Cowpe Lowe

44 White Hill and Piethorne Clough

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45 Saddleworth Edges

46 Lord’s Seat and Mam Tor

47 Kinder Downfall

48 Rowlee Pasture and Alport Castles

49 Back Tor and Derwent Edge

50 Stanage Edge

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Cautley Spout (Walk 14)

PREFACE

Arriving at the summit of Great Whernside (Walk 28)

During the late 1980s, still cutting my writer’s teeth, I braved the world of the Pennines to work on The Pennine Mountains. It was an eye-opening experience – one that led me into gelatinous peaty folds and across high, airy summits. Raised in industrial Lancashire, what little I knew of the Pennines was to my mind tarred with the same brush of bleak grimness as the towns and villages gathered among the Pennine landscapes.

I soon came to realise that the stereotypical portrait was a chimera, an unfounded legend that betrayed the beauty that I came to discover here. Some years later I visited again, preparing another guide for walkers, but in the meantime had learned how to appreciate these softer, more moulded landscapes, and had realised that absence of the crags that frequent the Lake District and parts of Snowdonia didn’t have to mean an absence of a perfect walkers’ domain.