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Hebden Bridge to Lower Gorple Reservoir loop

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Mountain biking trails

United Kingdom

England

Yorkshire And The Humber

Calderdale

Hebden Royd

Hebden Bridge to Lower Gorple Reservoir loop

Moderate

4.0

(10)

riders

Hebden Bridge to Lower Gorple Reservoir loop

02:32

26.2km

630m

Mountain biking

Embark on the Hebden Bridge to Lower Gorple Reservoir loop for a challenging mountain biking adventure through West Yorkshire's dramatic Pennine landscape. This moderate 16.3-mile (26.2 km) route, with its 2071 feet (631 metres) of elevation gain, typically takes around 2 hours and 32 minutes to complete. You will navigate…

Last updated: April 23, 2026

Tips

Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 15.3 km for 1.11 km

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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6.67 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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7.20 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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8.61 km

Track to Gorple Lower Reservoir

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Grass up the middle and lots of sheep

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14.4 km

Waterfall

Highlight (Segment) • Waterfall

Nice waterfall at the bottom, although a hard push back up the other side...

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16.9 km

Flaight Hill

Peak

22.7 km

Pecket Well Descent

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Fast, extremely rocky, occasionally technical, and one of the best descents in the area, Pecket Well is an absolute blast. It's an old pack horse trail (as are so many …

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26.2 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.96 km

6.20 km

4.60 km

2.93 km

1.47 km

987 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

11.7 km

4.17 km

3.31 km

3.20 km

2.80 km

1.06 km

Elevation

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Highest point (440 m)

Lowest point (100 m)

Weather

Thursday 9 July

30°C

16°C

10 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 16.0 km/h

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Comments

May 14, 2025,Hebden Bridge to Lower Gorple Reservoir loop

Don't recommend the Waterfall route.,plenty push up,Impossible to ride.
Otherwise a nice day out

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View of Lower Gorple Reservoir from Standing Stone Hill

Lower Gorple Reservoir Descent

Track to Gorple Lower Reservoir

Waterfall

Pecket Well Descent

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