Walk · North Yorkshire

Gosling Sike, Houghton

Houghton · CA3 0LD
Houghton M6 A689 Houghton Road N 440 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
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.

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 · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.9238, -2.9168
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.CUMBRIAWILDLIFETRUST.ORG.UK/NATURE-RESERVES/DOGS

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