Walks you can reach from Bootle by train

A shapely coastal peak between sea and mountains, climbing steeply beside Moorgill Beck to Black Combe's summit, with some of the best long-distance views in the country.

Black Combe: A shapely 600m coastal fell between sea and mountains whose summit gives some of the finest long-distance panoramas in the country.

Time: 5h

Warnings: A 15.2km hill walk with around 665m of ascent, fords and open-fell route-finding; the return includes a stretch of the A595.

Walk details: Visit Lake District / Lakes Line Rail User Group (PDF).

Low fells, wide salt marshes and the Duddon Estuary sea wall, with Millom Park and its open-air geology museum.

Millom Park: A wooded park above Millom with looping paths, optional viewing points and the open-air Rock Park geology museum.

Time: 4h30

Walk details: Visit Lake District / Lakes Line Rail User Group (PDF).

A long, demanding fell walk to the isolated grassy summit of Ponsonby Fell — an outstanding viewpoint — descending through Blengdale Forest.

Ponsonby Fell: An isolated fell whose elevation gives wide-ranging views including a revealing perspective of Scafell Pike and Scafell.

Time: 7h

Warnings: A long, demanding 22.5km fell walk best suited to experienced hill walkers; open fell, route-finding and over 500m of ascent.

Walk details: Visit Lake District / Lakes Line Rail User Group (PDF).

Mainly level shore and Drigg Dunes Nature Reserve, with views over the Irish Sea to Black Combe.

Drigg Dunes Nature Reserve: A coastal dune nature reserve between Drigg and Seascale with views over the Irish Sea.

Warnings: Drigg is a request stop. Not suitable for wheelchairs or pushchairs. Beach section can be cut off by exceptional spring tides; check tide times.

Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).

Dramatic sandstone clifftops of St Bees Head, with two promontories split by Fleswick Bay, to Whitehaven Harbour — the start of the Coast-to-Coast.

Hilly: a third on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.

Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.

St Bees Head: A dramatic sandstone headland of two promontories split by the secluded cove of Fleswick Bay, marking the start of Wainwright's Coast-to-Coast walk.

Time: 4h30–8h30

Warnings: Exposed clifftop paths with steep, undulating sections; take care near cliff edges in windy conditions.

Walk details: Visit Lake District / Lakes Line Rail User Group (PDF).

Similar walk: Railwalks (inc. GPX).

Largely pavement through Barrow-in-Furness and its docklands, the Dock Museum and the Cavendish Dock seawall.

Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).

Fields and lanes, the two Urswick villages, Urswick Tarn and Elizabethan Swarthmoor Hall with its early Quaker links, between Dalton and Ulverston.

Swarthmoor Hall: An Elizabethan manor near Ulverston with strong early Quaker associations.

Time: 3h–5h30

Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).

Similar walk: Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Recommended: An entirely flat walk around a bird reserve and along a wide sandy beach.

Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.

Time: 4h30–8h30

Lunch: Café at Haverigg midway.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Recommended: An inland detour with some climbing and frequent turns, plus two brief stretches on the main coast road.

Time: 4h30–9h

Warnings: Some climbing; two brief stretches on the main coast road.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Recommended: Mainly a clifftop walk with quite a lot of climbing.

Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.

Time: 2h30–5h

Warnings: Quite a lot of climbing.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Recommended: A mainly flat walk along an estuary and a dune nature reserve, with the last two miles along the beach.

Coastal: three quarters along the coast.

Time: 4h–7h30

Warnings: Last two miles along the beach can sometimes be wet.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Recommended: A mixed route, much of it hard-surfaced, along lanes, the coastal A road and a concrete promenade; last part industrial.

Coastal: three quarters along the coast.

Time: 7h–13h30

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Stretches alongside the coastal A road.

Walk details: Railwalks.