Start: Eaves Wood NT car park

                 Fact file: Distance: 9k 5 ½  miles
                  Time:  2 ½ - 3 ½ hours
                 Summary:  Mainly easy walking with one climb to the summit of Arnside Knott               
               Map: OS OL 7 The English Lakes South Eastern area

Map by kind permission of the Blackpool Gazette

Directions: Enter the wood on a broad track leading in a little over 200m to a junction.

Turn right in the direction of Waterslack. When you reach the drive

 cross it to pass the complex on your left. A footpath will lead down to the railway.

 Cross with care. On reaching the lane on the far side turn left.

After 500 metres the lane turns sharply left

and re-crosses the railway before Middlebarrow Quarry.

 Here turn right onto a footpath that runs through trees alongside the railway.

 After 200m take a left fork where the path divides and keep ahead until you arrive at Arnside Tower after 15 minutes of walking.

Follow the path as it leads down to the nearby farm.

Past the house turn right onto the farm drive which leads out onto Silverdale Road.

 Turn right.

The next part of the walk involves a climb to the top of Arnside Knott.Walk along the road for a little under 400 metres and then turn left onto  a footpath

 that soon leads steeply up through woods. In 150 metres bear left onto a path that continues climbing though less steeply. In more open ground bear left for the trig point. 

This is a worthwhile objective but for a superlative viewpoint follow a broad path dropping gently to the right

 and continue along the ridge for a further 300m passing through a patch of woodland

to reach a stone built direction finder. This offers fabulous views of the Lake District and more immediately the Kent Estuary below.

With the Kent Estuary to your right bear left beyond the direction finder dropping to a wall.

 After a wicket gate continue to descend to another wall

and follow a National Trust sign in the direction of Heathwaite. Keep on the path as it brings you to the base of the hill  to a wooden gate in a corner.

 

 

Turn left through the gate. After the path turns right by a property turn right onto a path in the direction of Far Arnside.

This leads between a wall and a fence to a wooden gate leading onto a lane.

 Turn left towards Silverdale.

Keep on the lane until the next road junction.

 Here take the footpath opposite leading across broad meadowland.

 After 300m (and a kissing gate and a small metal gate) a path leads into trees and Holgates Holiday Park. 

On reaching a drive turn right

and then follow a footpath sign left.

(Alternatively continue past the swimming pool to the main entrance and then turn left onto the road). At the road turn left. If you hadn't realised it before for most of the walk you have been in Cumbria - but worry not a sign will reassure you that you are back home in Lancashire. When you reach a junction turn right into Cove Road.

 Not surprisingly this leads to the lovely Cove - without doubt the most picturesque piece of the Lancashire coastline. 

If the tide is out it is possible to walk along the coast to Shore Road by turning left when you reach the beach. Otherwise turn left onto a footpath leading across the fields of Bank House Farm another National Trust property.

This will bring you to the top of Shore Road.

Turn left  and then left again in the direction of Arnside and Carnforth on Eamesgate Lane.

 This leads through the village centre. After passing the church on your right and on the very edge of the village turn left onto a footpath leading up to Eaves Wood.

 

As you enter the wood turn right onto a broad track.

This leads back to the junction close to the car park.

When you reach it turn right for the car park.