5 Best Activities In Hebden Bridge

Harder than most. The valley sides are steep and much of what you want to reach involves a climb, so a carrier often beats a pushchair. The riverside stretches at Hardcastle Craggs are the gentlest ground you will find locally; the paths that climb away from them are a different proposition entirely.

Four of the five entries have indoor space, a good ratio for a Pennine town. Flying Saucers Painting Pottery Cafe fills a couple of hours at a table, Playtopia takes the younger children, and Hebden Bridge Picture House is the one to fall back on when nobody can face going out in it again.

Hebden Bridge Mystery Treasure Trail suits that age well, since it hands them the job of finding things instead of asking them to be shepherded. Follow it with Hardcastle Craggs if the weather holds, because older children cope with a long woodland route far better than a short lap of a park.

A day covers the list comfortably. Five entries, most of them short rather than all-consuming, so the usual pattern is one walk, one indoor stop and time to spare. The town itself does some of the work, which you cannot say about many places of this size.