Walk · Cumbria

Foulney Island causeway from Roa Island

Barrow in Furness · LA13 0QL

2.9MILES

1h 50mON FOOT

10mCLIMB

Out & backSHAPE

Off-road 100% 0% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 45%Lane & track 55%

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

Small car park on Roa Island at the start of the Foulney causeway LA13 0QL

Parking

Small free car park on Roa Island where the causeway leaves the road; it fills quickly on summer weekends and there is nothing else nearby

Directions to the start →

Three miles of shingle and saltmarsh out along a causeway and the length of a bare pebble island east of Roa Island, with terns and ringed plovers on the ridges and Piel Castle across the channel. The dog rule here is absolute rather than advisory: Cumbria Wildlife Trust bars all dogs except assistance dogs from the island between 15 April and 1 August while the birds are nesting, and restricts everyone to the designated paths from 1 April to 15 August with Slitch Ridge closed. Out of that window dogs are permitted. The reserve can be cut off for a few hours around high water, so check the tide before you set out, and the causeway track is muddy and slippery.

THE SMALL PRINTCumbria Wildlife Trust: "No dogs (except assistance dogs) are allowed on the island" from 15 April to 1 August. From 1 April to 15 August access is restricted to designated paths and Slitch Ridge is closed. The island can be cut off around high tide.

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.0797, -3.1738

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.CUMBRIAWILDLIFETRUST.ORG.UK/NATURE-RESERVES/FOULNEY-ISLAND

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