C Walk at Arnside an easy climb with splendid views.

Walk Leader: Norman Jones

Distance: 4.25 miles

Total Ascent/descent: about 550ft

After refreshments, the walk starts along the main road and into the minor roads at the rear of the village, before taking a footpath through Dobshall Wood. Our route is upwards, good underfoot, on Red Hills open ground heading for Arnside knott. At about 550ft this is the highest point in the locality. As we walk up, the views become increasingly expansive across the Kent estuary. At the trig point the view is equally good in the opp

osite direction

 

Our descent, with excellent views again, is sometimes on stony ground through a series of woods before we reach the shore of the estuary, when it is about a mile back along the shore and the promenade.

The walk length, as the first one of the season, is unusually short, so the uphill section may be taken as slowly as necessary for everyone to have a comfortable walk.