Walks you can reach from Seascale by train
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Silecroft Circular via Black Combe (Cumberland)
30 minutes direct from Seascale.
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).
Millom Circular via Millom Park (Cumberland)
30 minutes direct from Seascale.
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).
Drigg to Sellafield (Cumberland)
4 minutes direct from Seascale.
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).
St Bees to Whitehaven (Cumberland)
15 minutes direct from Seascale.
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).
Silecroft to Bootle (Cumberland)
30 minutes direct from Seascale.
Linear hill walk over the summit of Black Combe, a shapely coastal peak with a 360-degree panorama, between two Cumbrian Coast stations.
Coastal: four fifths along the coast.
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: 4h–8h
Warnings: A 14.5km linear hill walk with around 650m of ascent, multiple fords and open-fell route-finding; not suitable in poor visibility.
Walk details: Visit Lake District / Lakes Line Rail User Group (PDF).
Barrow-in-Furness to Roose (Lancashire)
1 hour direct from Seascale.
Largely pavement through Barrow-in-Furness and its docklands, the Dock Museum and the Cavendish Dock seawall.
Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).
Braystones to St Bees (Cumberland)
8 minutes direct from Seascale.
Millom to Silecroft (Cumberland)
30 minutes direct from Seascale.
Foxfield to Green Road (Lancashire)
30 minutes direct from Seascale.
Barrow-in-Furness to Askam (Lancashire)
1 hour direct from Seascale.
Ulverston to Barrow-in-Furness (Lancashire)
1 hour direct from Seascale.
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.
Bootle to Ravenglass (Cumberland)
15 minutes direct from Seascale.