Walk · Cumbria

Hoad Monument and the Ulverston canal

Ulverston

5.3MILES

2h 18mON FOOT

110mCLIMB

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

Off-road 84% 16% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 38%Lane & track 46%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. 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

Ulverston market place, out by Hoad Lane to the monument

Parking

Paid town car parks at Brewery Street and Buxton Place, cheap and usually with space; the station is five minutes from the towpath

Directions to the start →

Five and a quarter miles and about two and a quarter hours, climbing the grassy hill to the lighthouse-shaped monument for the view over Morecambe Bay and then following the old ship canal out to its sea lock at Canal Foot. It starts in Ulverston town centre - the Brewery Street and Buxton Place car parks are paid but cheap, and the Furness line station is a five-minute walk from the canal towpath. The towpath is the reason to bring a dog here: a mile and a half of dead-level traffic-free gravel with water on one side, and the estuary shore at the far end. Hoad Hill itself is grazed pasture with sheep, and the tidal sands beyond the sea lock are dangerous - do not let a dog run onto them.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads on Hoad Hill, which is grazed pasture. Keep dogs off the sands beyond the sea lock at Canal Foot - the Leven estuary has fast tides and quicksand.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Off-lead allowed

Water bowls

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.1955, -3.0952

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Hoad Monument and the Ulverston canal

House rules, decoded

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