View of Stoodley Pike – Rodwell End Descent loop from Walsden

Mountain biking trails

United Kingdom

England

Yorkshire And The Humber

Calderdale

Todmorden

View of Stoodley Pike – Rodwell End Descent loop from Walsden

Moderate

4.4

(8)

riders

View of Stoodley Pike – Rodwell End Descent loop from Walsden

02:35

29.7km

600m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 7, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 13.2 km for 209 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

Get Directions

3.92 km

View of Mankinholes Valley

Highlight • Viewpoint

The views from this part of the valley are spectacular - admittedly less so when it's raining - but this is Yorkshire, what do you expect? And the Shepherd's Rest …

Tip by

5.21 km

Descent to Stoodley Pike

Highlight • Viewpoint

Ride up on the smooth path the sheep have created for a faster smoother ride! Otherwise, quite technical and bumpy!!

Tip by

6.63 km

View of Stoodley Pike

Highlight • Monument

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

Tip by

7.10 km

Stoodley Pike Monument and Stone Path

Highlight • Viewpoint

Lots of great walks to the Stoodley Pike monument to give great views across Calderdale and the South Pennines

Tip by

7.15 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. …

Tip by

13.3 km

Colden Clough LNR

Nature Reserve

23.7 km

Rodwell End Descent

Highlight (Segment) • MTB Park

A lovely, fast, flowing section of trail is interrupted by a track and a farm or two, and then suddenly steepens into something which requires quite a lot more concentration. …

Tip by

27.6 km

The Great Wall of Tod” this massive retaining wall holds the railway out of the canal using approximately 4 million blue bricks. As if that isn’t impressive enough the wall had to be constructed after the canal was built!

Tip by

28.3 km

Gauxholme Railway Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

What workmanship has gone into this bridge really amazing. This is just one side as the bridge is having some work done on it.
An extraordinary iron and steel bridge …

Tip by