Walk · Cumbria

Penrith Beacon and Beacon Hill

Penrith

2.7MILES

1h 15mON FOOT

100mCLIMB

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

Off-road 92% 8% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 32%Road with traffic 8%

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

Cold Springs community nature reserve, Beacon Edge, Penrith

Parking

Free roadside parking on Beacon Edge for around 12 cars; the town centre car parks are a 15-minute walk below

Directions to the start →

Two and three quarter miles and an hour and a quarter, a hundred metres of climb through the beech plantation to the little pyramid-roofed beacon tower above the town, with the north Pennines on one side and the Lakeland fells on the other. It starts at the Cold Springs community nature reserve on Beacon Edge, where there is free roadside parking for about a dozen cars; from the town centre it is a fifteen-minute walk uphill instead. Most of the route is inside enclosed woodland where a dog can be off the lead, and the reserve at the bottom has open grassland, but the woods are shared with local dog walkers and the summit clearing gives out onto grazed fields - the lead goes on at the top gate.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads at the top gate where the woodland gives out onto grazed fields; the plantation paths themselves are enclosed and fine off lead.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.6712, -2.7458

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/1763124/HIKING-AROUND-PENRITH

Penrith Beacon and Beacon Hill

House rules, decoded

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