Route: leaving the car cheekily at the end of the back entrance to the Woodlands Hotel and running through the centre of Silverdale and along Cove Road to a footpath diverting through a caravan park as the road swings left. After 100m doglegging left and right to folow a path across fields and cross a road. Along a road past a farm and through a caravan park to reach a footpath through trees. On passing through a wall turning left to descend to a narrow, rocky and sometimes overgrown (and hence slow) path along the modest cliffs with frequent views over the bay. Emerging onto the rocky shoreline around Blackstone Point and following this round to New Barns. Here turning inland across a field and then gently climbing woodland tracks gaining height to cross a shoulder of Arnside Knott and descend. Crossing the road at Hare Parrock, past Arnside Tower and then along mainly woodland paths under Eaves Wood to descend to the Woodlands Hotel, just above the start.
Conditions: blue skies and hot sun.
Pub: the Woodlands Hotel, Silverdale for Farm Yard Ales Sheaf and Wheetwood Oregon Pale.
