Walks you can reach from Askam by train
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Millom Circular via Millom Park (Cumberland)
15 minutes direct from Askam.
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).
Silecroft Circular via Black Combe (Cumberland)
30 minutes direct from Askam.
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).
Ulverston Circular via Conishead Priory (Lancashire)
30 minutes direct from Askam.
Circular of minor roads, woodland and the Morecambe Bay shore, past the Gothic-revival Conishead Priory and the Ulverston Canal towpath.
Conishead Priory: A Gothic-revival mansion in woodland on the Morecambe Bay shore, with a terrace cafe.
Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).
Cark and Cartmel Circular via Holker Hall (Lancashire)
45 minutes direct from Askam.
Hilly circular through conifer plantations and parkland around Holker, on a section of the Cumbria Coastal Way, passing the stately Holker Hall.
Holker Hall: A stately home near Cark with award-winning gardens and a courtyard cafe.
Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).
Seascale Circular via Ponsonby Fell (Cumberland)
45 minutes direct from Askam.
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).
Grange-over-Sands Circular via Eggerslack Wood (Lancashire)
45 minutes direct from Askam.
Hilly woodland circular over the limestone scarp of Paradise Hill above Grange-over-Sands, through Eggerslack Wood and the village of Lindale.
Warnings: Hilly with some wet, grassy paths. A short stretch of the B5271 has no pavement; take care.
Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).
Arnside Circular via Arnside Knott (Westmorland)
1 hour direct from Askam.
Wooded climb to the Arnside Knott summit viewpoint over Morecambe Bay and the southern Lakeland fells, then low cliffs and beach.
Arnside Knott: A wooded limestone hill in the Arnside and Silverdale AONB with a plateau summit giving panoramic views over Morecambe Bay and the southern Lake District fells.
Morecambe Bay: A vast tidal bay of intertidal sands and mudflats overlooked from the cliffs and shore around Arnside.
Time: 2h30
Warnings: Coastal section follows tidal shore; check tide times before walking the beach.
Walk details: Northern Railway (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Barrow-in-Furness to Roose (Lancashire)
15 minutes direct from Askam.
Largely pavement through Barrow-in-Furness and its docklands, the Dock Museum and the Cavendish Dock seawall.
Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).
Silecroft to Bootle (Cumberland)
30 minutes direct from Askam.
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).
Dalton to Ulverston (Lancashire)
30 minutes direct from Askam.
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).
Drigg to Sellafield (Cumberland)
45 minutes direct from Askam.
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).
Kents Bank to Grange-over-Sands (Lancashire)
45 minutes direct from Askam.
Hilly walk over limestone uplands and through Eggerslack Wood to the summit of Hampsfell, with wide views over Morecambe Bay.
Hampsfell: A limestone fell above Grange-over-Sands with wide views over Morecambe Bay.
Warnings: Steep climb and a scramble over a wall at the top of Eggerslack Wood; upland ground.
Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).