Mary Towneley Loop
Loop Walk · Yorkshire
1,500
XP
a 3-day route
Forms part of Pennine Bridleway National Trail
648 m
348 m
48 m
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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
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Climb
1671 m
Drop
1675 m
Highest
463 m
Lowest
110 m
Walking time
about 17 h 10 min
A 3-day route, walked in stages. 1,500 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 17% for 450 m early on, comes down 16% for 750 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Easy first 8.8 km, climbs 16% for 750 m midway, comes down 17% for 450 m near the end.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (2.1 km at 10%+, 1.6 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.8 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 36.9–42.0, from 462 m to 218 m.
How the 71.9 km splits
Flat
24.5 km
Climbing
20.5 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.5 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.6 km
Descending
24.0 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.8 km
Link it with other walks
Pennine Bridleway
Shares 17.2 km of path · meets at km 16.3, 16.7, 17.3…330.81 km
Rossendale Way
Shares 6.0 km of path · meets at km 28.5, 41.3, 44.7…66.96 km
Rochdale Way
Shares 5.1 km of path · meets at km 43.0, 43.9, 47.5…77.79 km
Burnley Way
Shares 4.8 km of path · meets at km 16.2, 16.9, 19.3…65.16 km
Todmorden Centenary Way
Shares 1.5 km of path · meets at km 57.3, 57.5, 64.2…34 km
Calderdale Way
Shares 1.3 km of path · meets at km 63.0, 71.381.28 km
GM Ringway
Shares 1.3 km of path · meets at km 43.1, 43.6, 45.9…323.48 km
Pennine Way
Crosses at km 9.0, 10.3, 65.6…425.28 km
Hebden Bridge Loop
Crosses at km 67.46.04 km
Irwell Sculpture Trail
Crosses at km 34.355.1 km