Walk · Cumbria

Brougham Castle and Brougham Hall from Penrith

Penrith

5.7MILES

2h 25mON FOOT

80mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 80% 20% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 48%Lane & track 32%Road with traffic 20%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Penrith town centre at the Musgrave Monument, out by Carleton and the Eamont

Parking

Paid town car parks at Sandgate and Bluebell Lane, cheap and rarely full; Penrith station is a ten-minute walk

Directions to the start →

Five and three quarter miles and about two and a half hours on almost flat ground, out of Penrith along the Eamont to the red sandstone keep of Brougham Castle and back by Brougham Hall's craft yards. It starts in Penrith town centre, ten minutes from the station on the West Coast main line, and the town's Sandgate and Bluebell Lane car parks are paid but inexpensive. The riverside path is level, shaded and gives constant water access, and dogs are welcome in the outer grounds of Brougham Hall and in its courtyard cafes; the field paths between are grazed by cattle in summer, there are two narrow squeeze stiles, and a quarter mile of the return uses the verge of a busy lane.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads through the grazed river meadows, which hold cattle in summer, and on the quarter mile of lane verge near Carleton. English Heritage allow dogs in the castle grounds on leads.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Water bowls

Off-lead allowed

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Brougham Castle and Brougham Hall from Penrith

House rules, decoded

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