| Walk: | Arnside Tower, Middlebarrow Wood, Eaves Wood and Scout Wood | ||
| Start Point: | Silverdale Hotel | Grid Reference: | SD 460 748 |
| Distance: | 5 miles | Ascent: | 550 ft |
| Time: | 3 hours | ||
| Weather: | Hazy at the start but the sun broke through giving some warmth on this, a beautiful spring morning. | ||
| Comments: | A very pleasant walk via the beach and then through Middlebarrow Plain to Arnside Tower. Skirting Middlebarrow Hill by using a path through the recently coppiced Middlebarrow Wood we then passed through Eaves Woods on the way to Scout Wood and Woodwell before returning for a bite to eat at the Silverdale Hotel. | ||
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The shore at Silverdale
Arnside Tower . . .
and again from the north-east side
Middlebarrow Wood
Coffee and a chat
A fine bunch of men!
A pretty limestone cottage
Joan striding out
A typical limestone stile
Meandering in Scout Wood
Two learned gentlemen . . .
followed by . . .
more of the group
Limestone pavement forms part of the path
I think the photographer must gave been hiding in the bushes here!!
Woodwell
To the woods . . .
where spring . . .
has really sprung
Then it's on down Shore Road . . .
to our starting point