Walk · Cumbria

Silloth to Grune Point

Silloth
Silloth Skinburness N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
7.2MILES
2h 56mON FOOT
20mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 84% 16% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 46%Lane & track 38%Road with traffic 16%

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
Silloth green, at the north end by the Sunset sculpture
Parking
Free on-street parking the length of the green and the promenade, and rarely a problem even in August
Directions to the start →

Seven and a quarter miles and close to three hours on ground that is almost completely flat, out along the promenade and the Skinburness shore to the shingle spit of Grune Point, where the Solway opens out towards Criffel and the Scottish shore. It starts on Silloth's green, where the wide streets carry free parking all the way along the front - the easiest arrival of any walk in this county. The far half is quiet saltmarsh and shingle with big skies and few people, and the sea is shallow and safe for a swim at the right state of tide, but Grune Point is a nature reserve with ground-nesting and overwintering birds and grazing stock on the marsh, so leads from the Skinburness corner out. The saltmarsh channels fill fast on a rising tide.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads from Skinburness onwards - Grune Point is a nature reserve with ground-nesting birds in spring, wintering wildfowl and stock grazing the marsh. The saltmarsh creeks fill quickly on a rising tide.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
Off-lead OK
REGION · CUMBRIA
GRID · 54.8688, -3.3878
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/2795315/HIKING-AROUND-SILLOTH-ON-SOLWAY
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