A rewarding ramble through the coastal limestone woodlands around Silverdale, visiting the lofty perch of the ‘Pepperpot’ and continuing to Jenny Brown’s Point.

Dog-friendly? Keep dogs under close control and ideally on a lead.
Toilets: Bank House Lane, Silverdale
Refreshments: Silverdale Hotel and Wolf House Gallery

1. START

Leave the car park on the footpath through the kissing gate at the northern end and continue northwest through Eaves Wood for 250m. Turn left at the junction signposted ‘The Pepperpot’. Climb through the woods on the wide path, keeping left at the fork where the path heads up to Pepperpot, then straight on past foundation blocks and alongside the wall on the left. After another 300m, take the path on the left to the Pepperpot.

2. 0.9 km

Fork left at the next marker post and continue uphill on the stony path, forking left at the prominent beech tree. Continue climbing, then follow the path around to the left to reach the Pepperpot atop the limestone crag, offering expansive views south over Morecambe to Heysham.

3. 1.4 km

Retrace your steps back downhill to the main path along the edge of the woods and continue right to meet the lane. Zigzag left then right and continue along the track, taking the footpath heading slightly left after 50m to join another track. Join the lane briefly then take the footpath on the right signposted ‘To the Cove’.

4. 1.6 km

Follow the path to the lane and continue along the lane for 100m, then head left down Cove Lane. At the cove, continue left along the coast path and through the gate onto NT land at Bank House Farm.

5. 2.6 km

Continue across limestone grassland into the village. At the road, head down the steps and right, then left along Lindeth Road signposted Jenny Brown’s Point. Continue climbing steadily past the houses up the lane. For a coffee break, head left at the top of the hill opposite Gibraltar Farm for a pit stop at Wolf House Gallery.

6. 4.3 km

Return to the lane and continue left along the lane past the farm, then Lindeth Tower descending towards Jenny Brown’s Point. Follow the road around to the left to reach the cottages.

7. 5.2 km

Head onto the foreshore and follow the coast around the front of the cottages to the chimney. Follow the path along the edge of the salt marsh to the gate. Go left, signposted Heald Brow and Hollins Lane, climbing steeply through scrub, then through another gate and onwards following marker posts up onto the heath. Continue over the squeeze stile in the drystone wall and continue alongside the wall over the grass meadows and through two gates onto the footpath running between the hedge and the wall.

8. 6.5 km

Follow the path to the road and turn briefly right, then left onto the footpath through the woods. Keep right, following the higher path running parallel to the road, then into the woods. Continue through the kissing gate at the edge of the clearing and head half right to the marker post and join the path signposted Silverdale Green.

9. 7.8 km

Continue through the kissing gate back into the woods for 400m, then turn sharp right through the squeeze stile at the cottage and along the narrow footpath to join the wider track on the left. At the road, turn right, then after 100m take the left fork along Bottoms Lane for 100m before taking the footpath on the right signposted Burton Well.

10. 8.7 km

Follow the track around to the left beneath the limestone cliffs, past the well and into the clearing of Lamberts Meadow. Keep left along the edge of the meadow for 100m, then right across the footbridge and over the meadow and through the gate and up steps into the woods. Continue past the shed to the road, then briefly left to join the footpath on the left signposted Dogslack Well.

11. 8.9 km

Continue along the track to join the footpath through the limestone scrub past the well on the left. Continue through woodland and over the stile to the left on the narrow path between gardens to rejoin the road and follow it right and across the main road back to Eaves Wood car park.