A Short Loop from Silverdale.

Start. Silverdale (Shore Road).

Route. Silverdale (Shore Road) - Lindeth Road - Wolf House Cottages - Gibraltar Farm - Jack Scout - Jenny Brown's Point - Fleagarth Wood - Hollins Lane - The Chase - Silverdale Green - St John's Church (Silverdale) - Emesgate Lane - Shore Road.

Notes. Away from the crowds of the Lake District just up the road Silverdale is a lovely quiet place to visit, this short excursion takes in a fair sized slice of what this small limestone peninsula has to offer. Low limestone cliffs jutting out into Morecambe Bay, hidden coves and secret corners, limestone grassland and deciduous woodland, a small slice of history. And today because it was high tide and we’d had a night of heavy rain water and mud in abundance, but don’t let that put you off there’s always a way round, well almost always.

It was a lunch time start, we waited trying to weigh up what the weather had in store, strong wind and light rain was forecast, we had the wind but no rain as yet, so to Silverdale we headed. After parking near the Silverdale Hotel we wandered along the tarmac surface of Lindeth Road, passed the lane to Woodwell, on reaching the Wolf House we turned right, the narrow lane we now followed passed Gibraltar Farm and Lindeth Tower before a gate allowed access to Jack Scout.

Jack Scout welcomed us with a restored lime kiln and muddy paths, we made our way to the Giants Seat, the views over Morecambe Bay are quite absorbing from this limestone seat. With the tide rising crashing against the cliffs that guard this small stretch of coast and the wind gusting it was a noisy place this Jack Scout. We wandered above the cliffs salt spray in our faces stinging our lips and eyes, after exiting Jack Scout near to Jenny Brown’s Point we slowly made our way around the point.

We casually wandered passed the Brown’s Houses and the Smelt Mill Chimney, all that remains of a short lived copper mining and smelting business dating back to the 1780s, lets be honest they were really hoping to find silver. The salt marsh had been inundated by the incoming tide, after a short stretch of dry walking we reached a real mud fest, we picked our way above, around and through the morass to reach a finger-post promising passage to Fleagarth Wood amongst other places, we continued through more mud, once the path started climbing into the woodland the going became easier.

The footpath through Fleagarth Wood is lined with wild garlic, unfortunately it had yet to flower, after another morass we stepped onto the tarmac surface of Hollins Lane, turned left then enjoyed a short stretch of road walking, it was nice to have a solid surface under foot. Road walking ended at a finger-post inviting us to Silverdale Green, through small pastures hemmed in by woodland we walked , eventually reaching The Chase and the village of Silverdale Green, thought to be the original village of Silverdale before the Victorians arrived and built large houses and estates near the coast.

On stepping onto tarmac we turned right then almost immediately left into a narrow lane that passed a row of quaint cottages, this guided us to a field gate and footpath to St John’s Church. Along the edge of a large meadow we wandered, on reaching the church we accessed the grounds via a gate at the rear. This turned out to be a handy short cut, after leaving the church grounds we stepped into Emesgate Lane the main road through Silverdale. The short walk that followed saw us wander through the village centre to access Shore Road just as the rain arrived, forcing us to quickly descend back to the parked car.

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At the end of Lindeth Road the Wolf House Cottages.

The donkey doesn't seem to care about the view, Heathwaite and Arnside Knott seen from near Lindeth Tower.

Restored limekiln near the the entrance to Jack Scout.

Sue soaks up views from the Giants Seat.

Seen from Jack Scout the long finger of Humphrey Head.

Jack Scout gets busy when the weather is nice, but you can still find hidden coves and secret corners, today it was only us and a the song of the wind and sea..

View taken looking down the Lancashire coast from Jenny Brown's Point.

The smelt mill chimney a memorial to industry past.

From the smelt mill chimney views to sylvan Warton Crag.

Looking to the woodland of Grisedale and the limestone escarpment of Farleton Fell.

Warton Crag seen across flooded fields, the footpath runs along the edge of the boundary fence.

At the foot of Heald Brow by a parting of the ways, looking over the salt marsh to the Morecambe coast.

En route through Fleagarth Wood.

Eaves Wood as seen from field paths north of Silverdale Green.

St John's Church, Silverdale, there was a chapel in the parish destroyed during the reformation, this was rebuilt in 1829, the present church was built in 1884-86, the chapel was then used as a mortuary chapel.

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