First off, it's a good start from Dalton, going through the Little Fields and following a short path up to Dalton Castle. Heading for the coast, the route map suggests following the access road to Marsh Farm, but a notice clearly states that this isn't a public footpath. All the way across low-lying fields to and from Marsh Grange and Guards Farm, some stiles were in a very poor condition, while others were in good shape. In the next year or so, the King Charles III England Coast Path will be fully open and signposted between Askam and Kirkby, and I'm sure that it will be better than the route through the fields, and it could even be a four or five star experience. The last part of the route follows a road, then switches to a path across another golf course, where you need to look for markers....

Paddy Dillon

I walked half of this route, Dalton to Little Urswick, last summer with a few friends. Missing signposts, broken stiles, a locked gate and a path that's often heavily cropped make it hard work to get from Little Urswick to Bolton Heads. Some very awkward, broken and overgrown stiles have just been replaced, making this part of the walk much more pleasant....

Paddy Dillon

If you arrive at the railway station, then the first thing you should do is to cross Abbey Road. Continue along Abbey Road to the outskirts of town before following a short path through a wood on the right. Walk into the centre of Dalton to catch a bus, which I did in the dark, or turn right up Station Road to catch a train....

Paddy Dillon

From Barrow station, it's a lengthy pavement walk gradually uphill, but the pavements are wide, and it's a nice leafy neighbourhood, despite walking alongside a busy main road. Another road crossing to gain access to a footpath, and we eventually arrive at Dalton railway station, and the end of the route....

Hiking Historian

Once you come off it's quiet roads and footpaths the rest of the way, but the crossing of Abbey road past the abbey itself isn't great, wide road with poor visibility along the bends....

Tom van Baalen

I followed this route from Dalton to Barrow, and most of the first 60% of it was along an enclosed footpath/cycle route, away from the road but near the railway, often with smallholdings nearby....

Mary Oz

Leaving Ulverston, the first 3k of this route is roads, 2k of it urban/suburban (though not unpleasant) and 1k rural with no pavement. From here the route crosses fields, goes along farm lanes and the odd short quiet road sections, and open, limestone-strewn sheep grazing....

Mary Oz