Cragg Vale is a lush wooded valley cut deep into the Yorkshire moors which surround it on all sides. It is characterised by stone built farms and homesteads on the hill sides and tops, and stone cottages along the valley floor strung out in a ad hoc linear development that was originally tied to the requirements of the many mills and the needs of farming.
Above Cragg the moors spread all around, with grouse, sheep and foxes in majority occupation.
The Calderdale and Pennine Ways pass just above Cragg Vale and across it too.