Brimham Rocks and the Washburn Valley: Walks from the Doorstep

Brimham Rocks is the crowd-pleaser: acres of wind-carved gritstone sculptures that children treat as a natural climbing frame and photographers treat as a studio, with Nidderdale rolling away below.

Quieter, and closer still, the Washburn Valley strings together Fewston and Swinsty reservoirs with level woodland circuits — the reliable leg-stretch when half the group wants a walk and the other half wants to be back for lunch.