The Pennine Way opened in 1965 as Britain's first National Trail, running 268 miles up the backbone of England from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. The South Pennines stretch — between Standedge and the Calder Valley — passes Stoodley Pike, the Walshaw Dean reservoirs, and the wuthering moors around Top Withens (often identified with the Wuthering Heights farmhouse).
You do not have to walk the whole trail to get a sense of it. A day's walk from Hebden Bridge to Mankinholes and back, or the moorland between Standedge and Marsden, gives a strong taste of the route's mix of bog, reservoir, and stone-walled valley.