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Muncaster Fell

Brendan and I had planned to walk up Great Worm Crag and Green Crag today from the Birker Fell road, but the road was closed, so instead we drove to Muncaster, to walk up Muncaster Fell. Due to lockdown this is my first fell walk in nearly two months...

Bay Cycle Way between Barrow and Rampside

Part of the Bay Cycle Way goes between Barrow and Rampside. The Barrow end starts on Walney Island (Sandy Gap) and heads towards Buccleugh Dock, behind Morrisons supermarket. The route from Morrisons to Rampside is 4.5 miles one way. The photos show...

Walney Island’s Coastal Path South to North

I got Brendan to drop me at the South End, near the Caravan Park, so I could walk back home to North Scale, using the Coastal Path. A walk of 7 miles. ...

Walney Island North End

Four weeks into lockdown this time we decide on a walk to the North End of Walney Island, from home, using the Coastal Path. ...

Walney Channel Crossings at Low Tide

A walk across Walney Channel via the little bridge from North Scale to the college. Then up onto the slag bank, and from Cocken Tunnel back across the channel to meet the coastal path steps, at low tide. It took one and a half hours. ...

Walney Promenade Walk

A walk back from Jubilee Bridge and along Walney Promenade to North Scale in blue skies and sunshine. ...

North Walney Coastal Path

During the Coronavirus crisis we are now not supposed to drive anywhere in order to take exercise, so the fells are not an option. It was time to do a walk from home! A new section of the England Coast Path has been made between Walney Airfield and t...

Whitfell & Buckbarrow

On Friday I drove to the top of the Corney Fell Road for an early morning solo walk. There is parking here for several cars. I would be following Wainwright’s Outlying Fell route to Whitfell via Buckbarrow, visiting Burn Moor and Kinmont Buckba...

Walna Scar and the Slate Quarry

On Friday Brendan and I drove through Seathwaite to the road signed ‘Coniston 4 miles, unfit for cars’, a single track road. At the end of the road is a gate that requires opening then closing, and 20m further on is a small parking area....

Green Quarter Fell

On Thursday Ged and I drove to Kentmere to walk up Green Quarter Fell, one of Wainwright’s ‘Outlying Fells’. An easy six mile walk. The weather was excellent, blue skies and sunshine, and there was still snow on the high fells, but...

Walking the Cumbrian Mountains

Jo Sweeney’s photo diary of Lake District Fell Walks