Walk · Cumbria

St Bees Head and Fleswick Bay

St Bees
Rottington N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
5MILES
2h 20mON FOOT
210mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 68%Lane & track 22%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. 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
Seacote beach car park, St Bees, at the end of Beach Road
Parking
Paid beach car park with around 200 spaces, the biggest on this coast and rarely full; St Bees station is a ten-minute walk and takes dogs free
Directions to the start →

Five miles and about two and a half hours for 210 metres of climb, north from the beach along the top of the red sandstone cliffs to the shingle cove at Fleswick Bay and the lighthouse on North Head - the first miles of the coast-to-coast walk, done in reverse. It starts at the Seacote beach car park in St Bees, which is paid, holds around 200 cars and is the largest on this coast; St Bees station on the Cumbrian Coast line is ten minutes' walk inland. The clifftop is the honest warning: an unfenced 90-metre drop for three miles with the RSPB seabird colonies below, so a short lead the whole way, and the field boundaries above are grazed. Dogs on the beach itself are covered by a Cumberland Council dog control order - read the signs at the access points before you let one onto the sand.

THE SMALL PRINTShort lead for the whole clifftop - an unfenced 90-metre drop above the RSPB seabird cliffs, where disturbance in the breeding season is an offence. The beach at St Bees is covered by a Cumberland Council dog control order; the dates are posted at the access points and should be checked on the day.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · CUMBRIA
GRID · 54.4928, -3.6012
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/2794397/HIKING-AROUND-WHITEHAVEN
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