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Softer South Lakeland

Softer South Lakeland

Removed from the hills but just in Cumbria,

the area round Milnthorpe, Arnside and Silverdale

has some lovely walking.

Not quite so challenging or dramatic but some quintessentially English scenes

totally fit for picture postcards – or Instagram!

Start from Milnthorpe, where the Bela joins the estuary,

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7.75miles, 11.9km

Stroll through Dallam Park,

Bridge

River Bela

where you should see more than the back of a deer.

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Dallam Park

Over the hill and down to Beetham.  There is a tearoom in the old post office, but I’ve never managed to catch it open.

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Beetham Church

Totally picturesque church and gardens worth a squint through the elaborate wrought iron.

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Quaint Garden

May be don’t mess with the locals or you may end up in the stocks,

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Justice

or incarcerated in the tower!

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Beetham Hall with Farleton Knott

From there wind your way through woodlands

Lanes

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and ancient lanes.

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Following the Limestone link.  Now much better signed than when I trekked along it.

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Marble Quarry

The top of Fairy Steps is a perfect coffee stop.  Try and squeeze down with out touching the sides so that the fairies will grant your wish.

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Fairy Steps

Hard to believe that this was once a ‘Coffin Trail’  along which the dead for remote villages were carried to church.

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Hazeleslack

You’ll emerge from the dappled green, occasionally

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Slack Head

to see pretty cottages and rolling green fields.

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Hazelslack

Hopefully the local bovine population will be as amorously occupied.

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wild red deer

Dive into the woods again and possibly catch a fleeting glance of a wild red deer.

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Then over Haverbrack and my favourite view of Cumbria.  Over the estuary.

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On a good day you’ll see Kentmere, the Langdales and more.  Swing the other way and the Howgills and Ingleborough could be there.

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So finally drop down to the estuary.  Either the waves will be battering or the sands will be supporting some kind of birds.  Graylags and gulls or egrets and herons.

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Trace the Bela back to the start.  Parking is fairly easy in the small lane on the Milnthorpe side of Dallam bridge, or in Milnthorpe where you can get coffee from Booths or try No 17, the best local restaurant.

 

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