Circuit of Arnside.

 Saturday 3rd. August 2024

This is  a five mile walk I have often done and yet again this last Saturday;  it encircles my domain and this time I decided to produce a slideshow to showcase some aspects of our Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

As this is predominantly a photo exercise it is worth clicking the first photo to enlarge for a slideshow after reading the captions

Just down the lane from home.
 The next zoom shot is taken from the furthest point where the road disappears

Zoom right across the bay to the limestone cliffs of Whitbarrow

The somewhat neglected telephone exchange at the end of Briery Bank,  and round the corner into Silverdale Road...

...Our Lady of Lourdes, Catholic church, also the next photo. I've never been inside

Children's playground, Arnside Cricket Club, Arnside Football Club, Arnside bowling, and tennis courts.
 Distant Kentmere and Shap fells

Dentist in Silverdale Road

Our lifeline. Same owner, (Ian Bullough) of similar convenience store down on the Front

Ash Meadow woods. A delightful network of paths leading down to the shore at the Beach Café. This is part of an endowment left to the village including our fabulous Arnside Educational Institute:
https://www.arnsideeducationalinstitute.org/

From Ash Meadow Woods looking across the bay to the Lake District hills

The Beach Café

Arnside Coastguard station

Arnside Sailing club - there is only a short window at high tide when water is deep enough. Here the tide has just arrived and boats are being launched

Looking back up the Kent estuary with the railway viaduct crossing in the distance

New Barnes static caravan site with children's playground and the Bob In Café

Frith Wood - footpath from New Barnes through to Far Arnside. An alternative follows a more adventurous route on the shoreline with steep thirty foot drops down to the shore 

Looking out to Morecambe Bay proper

Looking back up the Kent estuary, Arnside tucked in round to the right

Holgates static caravan site, Far Arnside.
Perhaps the most prestigious of its kind in the country, and below...

Sea views from these, and with facing west incomparable sunsets. My walking friend Pete and his wife Elizabeth had one of these before they moved to Arnside permanently, around fifteen years ago.

From the bottom of Heathwaite's, the climb up to the Knott from Far Arnside. The Knott is  out of shot to the right. The skyline is the wild flower meadow,  a continuation of the Knott ridge where orchids and other flowers can be seen

This and below. The climb up Heathwaite's, an epic ascent now with my breathlessness affliction. 

Now approaching The Knott summit. The lover's entwined tree to the left. I am always surprised to see this still standing after more than twenty years of my sojourn in Arnside. Here's hoping it doesn't suffer the fate of that tree on Hadrian's Wall

Across the bay to Lindale from Arnside Knott summit.
Trivia answer: Arnside Knott at  159m is the lowest of the Marilyns, a list of the 1551 hills in England Scotland and Wales  with a  drop of 500ft  on all sides. See my statistics on the sidebar of this blog