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For timetables timetables For Ulverston. to connections bus regular are There BY BUS BUS BY A590 Barrow and Ulverston. and Barrow A590 02 Leave the Motorway at Junction 36 and follow the signs for for signs the follow and 36 Junction at Motorway the Leave BY ROAD ROAD BY How to find us find to How Dales Langdales and the Yorkshire Yorkshire the and Langdales Morecambe Bay, the the Bay, Morecambe with glorious views over over views glorious with Grade II* listed structure structure listed II* Grade Monument The Sir John Barrow Barrow John Sir The 01 - from coast to hills to coast from - 04 A tour of Ulverston Ulverston of tour A Explore Ulverston Explore ❾ Turn right along Urswick Road, with houses on A Circular Walk in and the right and fields on the left. Turn left at the next lane to Swarthmoor Hall, which might be open to Around Ulverston visitors. ❶ This walk could start at any point, but here ❿ As you look at the front of Swarthmoor Hall. the south part starts close to the Glass Centre by Take the path down the left hand side and make the A590. From the small roundabout take the your way down to the beck. Go over the bridge exit signed Next Ness and Plumpton between the and up the hill. The path comes out by a school. petrol station and the Glass Centre and follow Next Ness Lane for 100 yards. Turn right behind the ⓫ Turn left and walk straight until you get to Glass Centre following an old drainage ditch to the Market Place. Take a rest in a cafe or pub. canal. ⓬ The Northern part of the walk starts at the ❷ Then turn left. When you reach the sea there Market Cross. Go a few yards up Daltongate and is an information board, public toilets and the Bay turn right onto Stockbridge Lane. Watch out for Horse Inn. the traffic but do admire the view over town. Immediately before the Happy Wilkinson memorial ❸ Turn your back on the sea and go up the road seat, go right through a kissing gate and down a with GlaxoSmithKline factory on your right. narrow walled path, known as Constitution Hill. ❹ At the roundabout, take the Sandhall exit. Look ⓭ At the bottom turn left and follow the path for the footpath on the left, which goes over fields, alongside Gill Banks stream. Go through another and then onto a short stretch of lane before joining gate; cool your feet in the stream - if you dare, the coast. You will pass an old brick factory then through another gate above the waterfall. chimney and see Conishead Priory, now a Buddhist Centre, in the trees. Follow the coast ⓮ Be careful of traffic as you cross the road to go until it meets the main Ulverston to Barrow Coast through another gate. Follow the wall on the right, road. (This is on a bus route back to Ulverston). Ice signed Bankhurst, up the side of Flan. The path is creams may be available here. not clear but make your way round the right of the hill. It eventually comes out at a muddy corner, ❺ Walk up the hill to Bardsea village. where you should look for conker trees. ❻ At the top of the hill, go left down a narrow lane ⓯ Eventually you come to a gate onto a road. Go and pass the Malt Kiln village hall. Follow the lane through the gate and almost opposite there is a right to Bardsea Green, where it becomes a gate into the woods. Follow the woodland path up bridleway to Far Mountbarrow. Go through the right to the top corner and then go over the stile gate and straight onto Birkrigg Common. and follow the path ahead towards the Sir John Barrow Monument. ❼ Cross an unfenced minor road towards a limestone wall and turn right down a path towards ⓰ Rest at the top of Hoad Hill (and go up to the town. Monument if it is open on Sunday afternoons and Bank Holidays when the flag is flying ). ❽ At the road go right, and almost immediately left, to Middle Mountbarrow Farm. Take the right ⓱ Take one of the many routes down the front of hand track through the farm to another road. Hoad Hill. Go through the gate at the very bottom Cross this and walk 1/4 mile over a field to Colt corner of Hoad Lane to the A590. Take great care House Lane. crossing this very busy road. Or go through the main gate on the tarmac path at the bottom of the hill and turn right to walk back to the town. ❶ Hoad Hill ❷ Ulverston Canal Starting at the Coronation Hall, turn right, go down New 3 MILES / 2 HOURS APPROX / EASY Market Street and then left up the cobbled street to the Market PATHS Cross. Turn right and continue along King Street. Turn right out of the Coronation Hall ❷ Just pass the Kings Arms Pub and turn left. Walk all the way and into New Market Street, then right up Soutergate until you get to Chittery Lane. into Market Street. Turn left into Union Street. Bear right into Hart Street. ❸ Turn right up Chittery Lane. Follow the tarmac path until it Continue along this road as it curves ends. This brings you to a grassy hillside known as Little Hoad. then turn left down Sunderland Terrace Take five minutes to enjoy the view over Ulverston. to join the main road. Cross carefully and turn down onto the canal towpath. ❹ Walk up the grass to a kissing gate leading on to China Wall The canal was built in 1796 to transport which is a path with a wall on either side. ❼ Just outside the main kissing iron ore and slate. gate of Hoad Hill is a large ❺ At the top go through another kissing gate and bear right to standing stone in the middle of the ❷ The tow path is just over a mile long follow a stony path along the incline at the back of Hoad Hill Ladies Walk path. Turn right along so enjoy a rest on a squirrel seat along and up to the Sir John Barrow Monument. this path beyond this piece of the way. Halfway along the canal you limestone, passing the gates of St can cross a disused railway line which ❻ Look out from the monument doorway then turn left and Mary’s Hospice on the right, and served GlaxoSmithKline. retrace your steps back along the grass path until it forks. Take into Saint Mary and Holy Trinity the right hand branch of this fork and look for a small group of Parish churchyard. ❸ When you reach Morecambe Bay rocks which marks the beginning of a concrete path that starts enjoy the views of Chapel Island, the with a few steps.