Walk · Cumbria

Derwent Water and Cockshot Wood accessible loop

Keswick · CA12 5DJ

1.25MILES

45mON FOOT

40mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 70% 30% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 10%Road with traffic 30%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, 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

Keswick Lakeside car park, beside the Theatre by the Lake, grid ref NY265229 CA12 5DJ

Parking

Keswick Town Council pay-and-display, the largest car park in town and the closest to the lake; it is normally full from mid-morning through to late afternoon in summer, when Otley Road and Bell Close

Directions to the start →

A stile-free mile and a quarter from the Lakeside car park, along the Derwent Water promenade and back over the low wooded hill of Cockshot Wood, with the whole line of Catbells and Causey Pike across the water. There is an optional 250 yard spur out to Friar's Crag, where the path narrows to under three feet and drops steeply to the lake, so it is worth thinking twice with a strong dog. Around Strandshag Bay you choose between a compacted upper path through a sheep-grazed field and a rougher lower path on the shoreline with boulders and tree roots. It is the one walk in Keswick that works with a wheelchair or a pushchair as well as a dog.

THE SMALL PRINTThe National Trust trail notes say "this route crosses a field grazed by sheep, please keep dogs under close control, especially at lambing time." The Friar's Crag spur has steep unfenced drops and a path narrowing to 87cm.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.5959, -3.1391

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Derwent Water and Cockshot Wood accessible loop

House rules, decoded

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