Walks you can reach from Grange-over-Sands by train

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).

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).

Moderate circular across the RSPB Leighton Moss reedbed reserve, with limestone pastures, woodland and the neo-Gothic Leighton Hall.

Leighton Moss: An RSPB reedbed reserve near Silverdale with a visitor centre and birdwatching hides.

Leighton Hall: A neo-Gothic country house near Silverdale with a tea room and parkland.

Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).

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).

Limestone scenery of the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape: lanes, woodland and outcrops, climbing Warton Crag for sweeping views over Morecambe Bay. Rare butterflies, moths and lizards on the crag.

Time: 2h30

Walk details: Discover Bowland (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).

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

Walk details: Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).

Fields, lanes and canal towpath through the Lune valley, past Loyn Bridge near Gressingham, then over Kellet along the Lancaster Canal into Carnforth.

Time: 5h30

Warnings: Strenuous full-day walk; can be split into shorter legs.

Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).

Coast, quiet farmland lanes and the lock-free Lancaster Canal towpath into Carnforth, the station of Brief Encounter fame.

Time: 2h

Walk details: Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).

Similar walk: Railwalks.

Recommended: A hilly walk, nearly all inland with some stretches on quiet lanes.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Recommended: Coastal route with multiple options; a longer line avoiding the busy lanes around the station.

Coastal: four fifths along the coast.

Time: 5h30–11h

Warnings: Tides can be dangerous.

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.