Sunday 7th September 2025
Just a quick walk from home was the intention but I also fancied a café halfway. It is only ten minutes drive to the National Trust car park at The Row on the edge of Silverdale. A short walk up ther road to Red Bridge leads to Moss Lane. From here I knew of a short footpath descending to cross the railway. Sure enough the old footpath gate was located and I descended the hundred yards or so on an overgrown path only to find there is now no access to cross the railway. I backtracked to Moss Lane which now bridges the railway and offers an alternative path immediately afterwards. So much for local knowledge. It doesn't seem all that long ago that I used that little shortcut.
The path now crosses Silverdale Golf Course and it was quite busy this Sunday morning but I managed to avoid being cannon fodder and even had a few cheery greetings from wannabe McJKilroys.
At Leightom Moss visitor centre I climbed the stairs to the café and ordered an Americano coffee and a slice of caramel shortbread and was a bit taken aback at £7.15. I know one is supporting a worthy charity but this seemed top weight. Even though the coffee came from one of those pukka machines with freshly ground I only rated it at seven out of ten. The shortbread though got a nine. At least this wasn't in the category of worst product at high cost.
Further up the road I crossed the golf course again to climb up to The Row, and then took a shortcut footpath pleasingly new to me before cutting back to The Row and my starting point.
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| The short stretch of road to Moss Lane |
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| Moss Lane |
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The now cul-de-sac footpath no longer providing a crossing of the railway |
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| Onto Silverdale golf course |
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| Boardwalk taking me to RSPB visitor centre |
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| A house for BC here with its own bouldering facility, and further down its garden... |
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| ... this garage, and note the sign above the door, then... |
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| Odd because there was no way whastsoever any member of public could be walking in that garden. I reckon this must have been uplifted as a trophy during a visit to Scotland and so placed by the oswner with his quirky semse of hunour |
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| Well as marked on the map. This and the sign etc on the previous pics were on the shortcut path I had not prerviuosly walked, so multii bounses for this walk |
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| Start/finish at car park, top left - clockwise |
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