Walks from Silecroft
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Silecroft Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Silecroft by train.
Silecroft Circular via Black Combe
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: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
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).
Silecroft to Bootle
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: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
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).
Millom to Silecroft
Recommended: An entirely flat walk around a bird reserve and along a wide sandy beach.
Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: Café at Haverigg midway.
Walk details: Railwalks.