Walk · Cumbria

Hampsfell and Eggerslack Woods from Grange

Grange Over Sands

3.9MILES

1h 53mON FOOT

200mCLIMB

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

Off-road 86% 14% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 26%Road with traffic 14%

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

Grange-over-Sands promenade, by the ornamental gardens below the station

Parking

Free promenade parking plus the paid station car park; both usually have space, and trains on the Furness line stop here

Directions to the start →

Just under four miles and about two hours for 200 metres of climb, up through the beech and yew of Eggerslack Wood to the limestone top of Hampsfell and its odd stone hospice, which has a viewing platform and a Greek inscription over the door. It starts on the promenade in Grange-over-Sands, two minutes from the railway station, and the free promenade parking plus the station car park make this an unusually easy walk to arrive at. The woodland is enclosed and shaded for off-lead work, but the fell top is open limestone pavement grazed by sheep, with grykes - deep narrow fissures in the rock - that a running dog can drop a leg into, so keep to the paths and the lead on above the wall.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads on the fell top: it is grazed, and the limestone pavement is cut by deep narrow grykes that injure dogs running off the path.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Off-lead allowed

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Hampsfell and Eggerslack Woods from Grange

House rules, decoded

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