A10.5km walk on a day with some dismal, but also some surprisingly dry, weather.Route: leaving the Town House B&B on Queen Street and walking North East past Ulverston Parish Church to join a snickleway, turning left uphill on another and then taking a tarmac path between fields round the back of, and then up to, the Hoad. Descending on smaller paths to another tarmacked path to Ford Park Crescent to reach the Swan Inn for half pints just after early doors. Then crossing the main road to take the canal-side path 1.25 miles to the Bay Horse for beer and a light lunch. In driving rain, finding the start of the Outcast Rope Walk and wading to the Devonshire Arms. Then back to the B&B having missed the now-shunted-to-Ford-Park-(for heresy) eco event.
Conditions: some dry patches before Canal Foot. Driving rain afterwards.
Pubs: the Swan Inn for Saltaire Zephyr and Fell Export Stout; the Bay Horse for Black Sheep Bitter; and the Devonshire Arms for Cross Bay Zenith and Logan Beck Brewing Navigator.
