A great moorland walk to a great pub: the Pack Horse Inn, West Yorkshire

Skirting woods and passing rushing streams, this stroll near Hebden Bridge takes in a 19th-century cotton mill and a 400-year-old alehouse

Despite its name, Midgehole, the starting point of this walk, is rarely enveloped in clouds of the little pests, while any you do encounter will be left behind once you get up on to the moors.

And this is a walk that, thanks to the stiff climb from the National Trust car park at Midgehole, gets me and Finn, my border collie, on to the moors pretty quickly. A rough track takes us up through the woodlands of Hardcastle Crags, where there are green woodpeckers and deer.