Walks in Furness and Cartmel
4 routes, from 4 moderate. Each has a route map, the climb worked out from the line, parking, dog and stile notes, and a GPX to download. For things to do, food and where to stay, see our Furness and Cartmel guide.
Moderate · 10.2 km · 195 m up
Cartmel, Speel Bank and How Barrow
About 2 hours 30 minutes
From Cartmel Priory and the racecourse through Park Wood to Speel Bank, south along the Ellerside ridge past How Barrow and back by the lanes.
Moderate · 4.5 km · 109 m up
Hoad Hill and the Sir John Barrow Monument from Ulverston
About 1 hour
Ulverston's landmark walk: up The Gill and over Flan Hill to the lighthouse-shaped Barrow Monument on the Hoad, with Morecambe Bay below.
Moderate · 7.8 km · 362 m up
Hampsfell Hospice from Grange-over-Sands
About 2 hours
Grange's own hill: through Eggerslack Wood to the 1846 Hospice on Hampsfell, with a rooftop view indicator and Morecambe Bay below.
Moderate · 9.9 km · 286 m up
Arnside Knott and the shore from Arnside
About 2 hours 30 minutes
Arnside's best walk: along the Kent estuary shore to Far Arnside, then up to the toposcope on Arnside Knott for a view over Morecambe Bay.