An overview of walking the Allerdale Ramble in the Lake District, Cumbria including links to walking information, walking equipment, walking holidays, walking maps and travel related to walking

Allerdale Ramble 87km / 54 miles Calculating walking distances part of the Walking on the Web guide to walking in England

Start Seathwaite NY235119 Finish Grune Point NY145571

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From the North Cumbria Seathwaite to Grune Point on the Solway Firth this walking route takes in Borrowdale and Derwent Water before summiting or circumnavigating Skiddaw, your choice or maybe the weather's? Beyond the route joins the Derwent valley up to Cockermouth, then crosses farmland to Maryport where it joins the coast and the Cumbria Coastal Way on the last leg up to Grune Point on the Grune overlooking Moricambe

Depart Seathwaite Arrive Keswick Total time hrs Distance km / miles Altitude change Descent m Ascent m Difficulty Intersecting Routes   Map Ordnance Survey Explorer OL4

Seatoller Portinscale

Depart Keswick Arrive Cockermouth Total time hrs Distance km / miles Altitude change Descent m Ascent m Difficulty Intersecting Routes   Map Ordnance Survey Explorer OL

Bassenthwaite Kilnhill

Depart Cockermouth Arrive Maryport Total time hrs Distance km / miles Altitude change Descent m Ascent m Difficulty Intersecting Routes Cumbria Coastal Way Map Ordnance Survey Explorer OL

Bridekirk Tallentire Dearham and Row Brow

Depart Maryport Arrive Skinburness Total time hrs Distance km / miles Altitude change Descent m Ascent m Difficulty Intersecting Routes Cumbria Coastal Way Map Ordnance Survey Explorer OL

Allonby Mawbray Beckfoot Silloth

Just beyond the Skinburness Hotel a signpost for the Cumbria Coastal Walk points you down a hardcore track towards the Grune. You could go along the sea front but I think this would detere from the end result. Having past the houses on the left hand side and over the last section of tarmac the track leads up to a last gate before the finish.

There are a series of fields on the left and on the right the Skinburness Marsh opens up.

If the tide is out the sea leaves glistening mud channels as a fore front to the lake mountains on the horizon. The enclosed fields on the left end and your eye is focused on an old pill box with a pyramid on its roof. The pill box was constructed using hessian bags of sand and cement stacked like bricks and left to set in place. In places you can still see the hessian or the patterns left by it in the wall. Surprisingly inside it is pleasent and would certainly be an adequate shelter if one was required.

Although there are a host of radio masts across the Moricambe between Anthorn and Cardurnock you realy don't give them a second glance because the beauty at the end of the Grune is superb. If you thought that the walk along the coast from Maryport wasn't up to much and why did I bother leaving the Lakes then this is what you've done it for.

Find some drift wood big enough to sit on and take in the view. Look over the Solway Firth, take in Criffel, take in Scotland. Look back and take in the Lakeland Fells.

This view is definately worth it !!!!!!

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