Walk 7: Priest Hutton to Carnforth
For part of its length the Lunesdale Walk passes through the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Equal in landscape status to a National Park, the AONB was designated in 1964 to facilitate the coordinated protection of the fragile landscapes of heather moorland, secluded wooded valleys, unpolluted watercourses and grassy fells which characterise the area.
Note: The route between Priest Hutton & Capernwray is marked by waymarked disks showing “Cinderbarrow Walks”. Please follow these between points 1 and 3.
Distance: 4 miles (6.5km)

At the village green, turn left, and left at the next junction. Climb out of the village to pass Beech House Farm. Before a barn on the right, go right along a track to squeeze through a narrow gap stile by a gate into a field. Keep company with the hedge on the left to go through a gap stile in the corner and proceed ahead. The path descends to meet an old green track, which runs into a dry valley. You will see a house ahead but look for a stile on the right leading back into a field. Once over, go left to the corner where you cross another stile onto a lawn. Go left to the drive then right to the road.
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Opposite, cross a stile, and walk down the narrow enclosure to two footbridges and a rather large ladder stile. A little path runs by a stream to a kissing gate, and, from here, you go left under the railway bridge. Follow the track over a stone bridge and through the field. It bends slightly left and then right to a stile by the higher of the two gates. Cross it, and walk onward to a footbridge and stile, then climb the hillside to walk closer to the railway. Cross a stile by a gate, and the track ahead leads to a road by the Lancaster Canal. Turn left, then right at the junction to go over the canal bridge here at Capernwray.
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Drop down the steps on the right to the towpath, and then turn right for the return last leg to Carnforth. Follow the towpath (canal on your left) back to Carnforth, passing beneath the M6 motorway. When you reach the outskirts of the town, leave the canal at the first bridge, Hodgson's Bridge, to walk up the rough lane to North Road. Go left, and walk back to the junction with Market Street, where you bear right into town. Cross Scotland Road, and keep ahead down Market Street to Carnforth Railway Station.
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