Seven Valleys: one day challenge

Seven Valleys is a 100 mile / 162km circular route on ancient and modern track ways, hidden away from view, that radiate out across the South Pennines like green spokes from a hub.   

The Seven Valleys trail connects packhorse tracks, drovers lanes and fast flowing greenways on former railway lines to take you across a beautiful and diverse landscape of heather moorland, steep valley slopes and mill towns that have reinvented themselves. 

The valleys we cross and towns / places we visit are:

  - Calder Valley - Hebden Bridge

  - Ryburn Valley - Ripponden

  - Colne Valley - Marsden (outward part of the route)

  - Tame Valley - Diggle

  - Longdendale Valley - Padfield

  - Holme Valley - Meltham

  - Colne Valley - Slaithwaite (return part of the route)

  - Luddenden Valley - Mount Tabor

Start from Mytholmroyd Community Centre on Sunday from 7am.

Route: 100 miles / 9,400 feet of climbing

              162km / 2,864 metres of climbing

A full range of info can be found at: https://yorkshiredivide.co.uk/seven-valleys

Included in entry:

Event Hub - Tea or coffee and breakfast pastries from 7am at Mytholmroyd Community Centre (MYCC).  The Community Centre has changing rooms and hot showers which riders are welcome to use (open till 5pm).

GPX file - The field tested gpx will be sent to your email address in the week leading up to the event (by 19/05/2026)

Starting line - There is no mass start with the departure window 7.15am - 11am.  

Parking - Your vehicle can be parked at Mytholmroyd Community Centre (MYCC) for the duration of event from Saturday through to the Tuesday morning. Register your vehicle at the MYCC desk to avoid the parking charges.

Camper vans - Bonus that you can park you van at Mytholmroyd Community Centre on Saturday night through till Tuesday. Make sure you register your vehicle at the MYCC desk to avoid the parking charges.

Train - The start line at MYCC is a few minutes from Mytholmroyd train station on the main line between Leeds  - Manchester.

Cloth Badge - All riders receive a Seven Valleys embroidered cloth badge

Note:  Riders should be aware that the event team is at Mytholmroyd Community Centre on Sunday morning but by midday Sunday and through till early Monday they are up at the campsite in Shepley.  Hence there is no flag waving or bell ringing (at least not from the event team) to greet you as you pass the finish line after your epic ride and no pie n peas on Sunday.  But there will be a badge (in your registration envelope when you sign on) and there are three pubs in Mytholmroyd and more in Hebden Bridge with plenty of eating places to choose from. 

Rider Agreement

Every rider is expected to read all the points outlined in the 'Rider Agreement' (see below for the link) and accept the rules, rights and responsibilities of participating in a Yorkshire Divide event:

https://yorkshiredivide.co.uk/rider-agreement