Walks you can reach from Silverdale 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 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).

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).

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).

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).

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: The magnificent Lune Aqueduct; a canalside view of the sea, with mountains beyond. A long but very easy route, canal towpath nearly all the way, with short street sections at each end and no stiles, gates or steps. The towpath contours above the Lune valley over the magnificent Lune Aqueduct; surface is tarmac (partly broken) or fine gravel and lumpy in places with a couple of short muddy patches and a short cobbled section. Views across the fields, Morecambe Bay and the Lakeland hills; kingfishers sometimes seen. Cafés at St John's Hospice (Lancaster end) and a shoreside café and micropub at Hest Bank.

Waterway: nine tenths along the Lancaster Canal.

Time: 4h–7h30

Lunch: Canalside pubs and a supermarket at Bolton-le-Sands and a canalside pub at Hest Bank.

1 end-of-walk reward: the Canal Turn

Warnings: The towpath surface is lumpy where the tarmac has disintegrated, with a couple of slightly muddy patches.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Reverse direction: Railwalks (inc. GPX).

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

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.