Walk · Cumbria

Gosling Sike, Houghton

Houghton · CA3 0LD

1.6MILES

45mON FOOT

20mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

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

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

Gosling Sike car park, Houghton Road, Houghton CA3 0LD

Parking

Free car park at the Cumbria Wildlife Trust office. Small, and largely taken by staff and volunteers on weekdays.

Directions to the start →

Cumbria Wildlife Trust's northern office sits on a small organic working farm two miles north of Carlisle, named after a beck that runs down to the Eden, and the public and permissive paths through it are open to walk. The circuit takes in the wildlife garden, boardwalks across the wet ground, pasture and a strip of woodland, and it is short and level enough for a dog that has had enough of pavements. Cattle graze the pasture as part of the management, which is why the lead rule exists rather than being decorative. Houghton Road buses from Carlisle stop near the entrance.

THE SMALL PRINTCumbria Wildlife Trust's reserve rule is that dogs be kept on a lead or under close control at all times so they do not disturb wildlife or livestock, and that bagged waste be carried away - bags left on walls or hung in trees are not collected by staff. Temporary or seasonal restrictions can be applied during the bird nesting season.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.9238, -2.9168

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

Gosling Sike, Houghton

House rules, decoded

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