On other Slow Ways from Lakeside, I've said that the real transport hub is Newby Bridge, but by sheer chance, only a couple of days previously, I'd used both the steam train and lake ferry connection at Lakeside for the first time in many years. The splendid path from Lakeside to Newby Bridge cost £1,450,000, opened in 2023, and is suitable for walkers, horse-riders, cyclists, pushchairs and wheelchairs. Sticking to the roads and paths beyond Newby Bridge, I had no problem getting through the three fields between the Newby Bridge Country Caravan Park and Harebridge House. (If you find this path completely overgrown again, you'll have no option but to switch to Lakgra Two and follow roads.)....

Paddy Dillon

To get from Lakeside to Newby Bridge, the road is a poor option, even with the path alongside part of it but back when Slow Ways got off the ground in 2020, it was the only option. Sticking to the roads and beyond Newby Bridge, I felt I should double back and check the paths used on Lakgra Three, which I thought were better than the road-walk. After Seatle, I checked the road-walk to Field Broughton, but I also checked the paths used on Lakgra Three....

Paddy Dillon

The way from Lakeside to Newby Bridge doesn't work, and in any case a brilliant alternative route was put in place since this route was first suggested....

Paddy Dillon

This is a long walk, which I did from Ulverston to Grange. It's a long walk and to explain the three-star rating, the worst parts warrant two stars and the best parts get five stars, so three stars is just an overall rating. Field paths led me from farm to farm and while some parts were well waymarked, other parts needed careful navigation. A field path and a woodland path led me to Cartmel Racecourse, where the public footpath runs straight across the racecourse and straight through a football pitch....

Paddy Dillon

Pictures 2 & 3: The path through fields from Crook Hill past Harebridge House is horrible, almost impassable, due to bog, gorse, and no visible path through high and scratchy plants....

Mary Oz

It starts with a pretty woodland path alongside and sometimes above the road to Newby Bridge (where there is a useful bus stop), although there is still some road walking necessary. The road to Hazelrigg is very quiet, and becomes a gravel track to Field End, and then a grassy track alongside a dry-stone wall. Only the last short road section, marked “The Level”, is busier, but there are good sightlines and the drivers were very considerate. The road is mostly very quiet though, with considerate drivers (they’re used to walkers in the Lake District)....

Mary Oz

Leaving Grange station the route follows the pavement of the main road, however the first quarter of a mile can be walked along the prom, as there is a footbridge over the railway to meet the pavement. Soon the route turns onto the first of many quiet roads with no pavement. Then there is another quiet road, before the route passes through farms but is, initially, a little tricky to find....

Mary Oz