Best walks to or from Roose

Barrow-in-Furness Station to Roose Station

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

10km.

Documented by Community Rail Cumbria (PDF).

Roose Station to Dalton Station

Mainly level, largely off-road route past the ruined Cistercian Furness Abbey in the Vale of Nightshade, Abbots Wood and Dalton Castle.

6km. 2h.

Highlights: Furness Abbey (The ruined 12th-century Cistercian abbey set in the wooded valley known as the Vale of Nightshade, once the second most important Cistercian house in England) and Dalton Castle (A National Trust 14th-century pele tower standing in the market square at the top of the town).

Documented by Visit Lake District / Lakes Line Rail User Group (PDF).