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Walks from the Furness Line 12Pp DL V2.Qxd:Millom Lflt 22/06/2016 14:55 Page 1 22/06/2016 14:58 22/06/2016 1 Furness.indd Leaflet Walks Council County 115337-Cumbria Produced by the Community Rail Partnership Rail Community the by Produced hhreedsprinters.co.uk Ltd. Printers Reeds H&H by printed and Designed adverse weather conditions and also take a drink with you. with drink a take also and conditions weather adverse boots, waterproofs, torch and compass. Take extra care in care extra Take compass. and torch waterproofs, boots, cumbria.gov.uk/publictransport or traveline.info you – referring to it regularly. 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Kent the and Bay Morecambe across views spectacular through Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands and Carnforth, offering Carnforth, and Grange-over-Sands Ulverston, through The line between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster passes passes Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness between line The 8 6 Walk Walk 3 Walk walks 4 5 08457 48 49 50 49 48 08457 Enquiries Rail National short Walk 8 Walk 7 tpexpress.co.uk or northernrail.org Walk nationalrail.co.uk see advance, in bookings value best For Useful websites Useful Line Furness The Walks from the Furness Line Furness the from Walks Walk Barrow – Barrow Island – Dockland – Roose Station Walk Roose – Furness Abbey – Dalton Walk Dalton – Urswick – Ulverston Map on walk4life/info: Map on walk4life/info: Map on walk4life/info: www.walk4life.info/walk/barrow-dockland-walk www.walk4life.info/walk/roose-dalton-furness www.walk4life.info/walk/dalton-ulverston-railwalk 1 Station: Barrow-in-Furness Station. 2 Station: Roose Station, on Roose Road, Barrow-in-Furness. 3 Station: Dalton-in-Furness Station. 6.4 miles 4.3 miles 6 miles 3 hours Terrain: Mainly hard pavement with a grassy bank in section 8. 2 hours Terrain: Mainly level, off-road path with a hilly mid-section. 3 hours Terrain: Mainly grassy paths with some minor roads, Refreshments: Café (in the station). Pub/café at the Dock Museum. Refreshments: Abbey Mill Café at Furness Abbey. Pubs on taking in both Urswicks and Swarthmoor Hall. Map: OS Explorer OL 6. 1:25000 Newton Road plus many other pubs in Dalton. Refreshments: Possible to detour in Urswick to The Derby Map: OS Explorer OL 6. 1:25000 Arms or The General Burgoyne. 1. Leave Barrow-in-Furness Station and walk south west down Map: OS Explorer OL 6. 1:25000 Abbey Road to Ramsden Square. 1. Exit Roose Station on the supermarket side, walk north along Flass 2. Take the last part of Abbey Road to Custom House roundabout. Lane, turn right onto the Abbey Greenway before the bridge over 1. Exit Dalton Station on the Barrow-in-Furness side and turn right the Red River. away from the bridge, crossing Greystone Lane heading northwest 3. Turn left at Iceland and walk round the Cornmill Crossing roundabout, along the road above and parallel to railway, meeting a footpath across Walney Road to the Dock Museum. 2. Take the Greenway to the north, crossing the river by a footbridge and north to Park House Farm. Take the concrete footpath past the to Highfield Farm at the top of the estate. 4. Find time to have a look in the Dock Museum and detour to the storage sheds and through the gate onto a track rising gently ahead. 2. Head east crossing the fields and minor road near Skells Lodge gardens by Jubilee Bridge. 3. Go through a gate at the top for the first view of Furness Abbey and and continue 700m east, towards Bolton Heads and Hawkfield. 5. Walk south east along Bridge Road past the shipyard sheds to the natural amphitheatre called The Vale of Nightshade. The ruined 3. Join the minor road to Little Urswick, with the house named the Michaelson Road roundabout among the tenement buildings. abbey dates from the 1100s and was once the second most important ‘Gynring’ on the junction corner. Walk along the green in Little 6. Turn right along Michaelson Road and then left onto the new Cistercian abbey in England. The site used to have its own station. Urswick, past the former pub. Join the road and carry on until Docks Road at the roundabout. 4. Walk across the amphitheatre floor, to a small car park, with toilets, just past Low Furness School. 7. Turn left across the rough ground to reach the road at the back unless the walker wishes to visit Abbey Mill licensed café to the right. 4. Before reaching the church take the footpath over the fields of the terraced houses. 5. Turn right onto the public footpath and just after the start of the towards Urswick Tarn. Follow the footpath round the south side 8. Walk down the road marking the old railway, turning up the bank at hill, take the footpath steps to the left, entering the Woodland Trust’s and then join the road in the village. the back of the Cavendish Park playing field and with the Jeff Fullard Abbots Wood. On reaching the driveway, turn left and walk 500m 5. After a short distance find the first narrow lane up the hill between allotments on your right, find Buccleuch Dock Road. through the woods, to the site of Abbotswood House. the houses, cross the fields to Trinkeld, with the woods to the left. 9. Turn right along Michaelson Road back to town. Take Dalton Road 6. Follow the path slightly uphill, crossing a bridge over the old sunken 6. Cross the road between High Carley and Bardsea, then after 200m at Schneider Square roundabout to do a shorter walk and return to road to reach a stile, north east edge of the wood. Cross the field take the footpath straight on as the road sweeps to the right. Barrow-in-Furness Station. For the full six mile walk take the steps down heading for the Lodge House at the top of Mill Brow on the old 7. Pass through the renovated houses at Trinkeld, emerging on to the supermarket car park and follow the Town Quay out to the docks. main road. Exit a field gate to the right onto Long Lane. ‘Main Road’. Follow the verge footpath on the south side of 10. Follow the Dock Road out to the nuclear ship terminal and turn left 7. Follow Long Lane to the the road to turn left onto Urswick Road. along the seawall of Cavendish Dock. Turn left at the United Utilities 9 Newton crossroads and turn 8. Take the next left after 300m towards Swarthmoor Hall. Turn pumping station and head back towards town. left onto Newton Road towards right just past the Hall entrance on the footpath to the end . Dalton 11. Go under the railway bridge and turn right round the former Dalton, passing, or using the of ‘The Drive’ Ulverston. St Mary’s Catholic School is to the right -in-Furness Newton pub. Sandgate pub along the rear of Long Way, to emerge on Roose Road. 8 before arriving at Springfield Road. Turn right up Roose Road to finish at Roose Station. 7 8. After the pub take the entrance 9. Ulverston Station approach is second left. left into Dalton Cemetery and Newton Lane . Barrow-in-Furness follow one of the paths down Mill 6 . Ulverston 9 to the northern gate. Turn left 1 Brow Levy Beck Abbey onto Abbey Road and after . Roose 8 Swarthmoor Road walking about 50m, cross the Dock 7 Hall 2 main road with care and take Museum 6 Croftlands 5 Furness Abbey the minor road towards the Trinkeld 4 3 Brown Cow Inn.
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