The Cumbria Coastal Way - A Walker's Guidebook

This guidebook follows the continuous 298km (182 mile) walking route from Silverdale, on Morecambe Bay, towards Gretna on the Scottish border. The route links a number of gems of landscape, wildlife, archaeology and history along this often little-known coastline. A walk of 10–14 days suitable for all levels of ability.

Please note that most of these books are out of print although many can be obtained from second-hand book dealers or from the internet.

Baddeley, M.J. The English Lake District (Dulau, London 1895)

Baines. History of the County of Lancashire (Wales, Liverpool 1824)

Baldwin, J.R. & Whyte, I.D. The Scandinavians in Cumbria (Scottish Society for Northern Studies, Edinburgh 1985)

Banks, A.G. H.W. Schneider of Barrow and Bowness (Titus Wilson, Kendal 1984)

Barnes, F. Barrow and District (Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council, 1979)

Bellhouse, R.L. Roman Sites on the Cumberland Coast (CWAAS, Kendal 1989)

Blake, B. The Solway Firth (Robert Hale, London 1974)

Bradley, A.G. Highways and Byways in the Lake District (Macmillan, London 1930)

Carruthers, F.J. People Called CUMBRI (Robert Hale, London 1979)

Clare, T. Archaeological Sites of the Lake District (Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne)

Collingwood, W.G. The Lake Counties (J.M. Dent, London 1932; revised ed 1988)

Conishead Priory, Official Guide (Ulverston, n/d)

CWAAS Transactions (various annual volumes)

North Cumberland Coast (Cumberland County Council, Carlisle n/d)

‘Cumbria’, Arnside and Silverdale (Dalesman, Clapham 1967)

Edgar, S. & Sinton J.M. The Solway Junction Railway (Oakwood, Wallingford 1990)

Fell, A. The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District (Hulme Kitchen 1908)

Ferguson, R.S. A History of Cumberland (Elliot Stock, London 1890; 1970 ed S.R Publishers, Wakefield)

Fraser, M. Companion into Lakeland (Methuen, London 1939)

Fraser, G. MacDonald. The Steel Bonnets (Pan, London 1974)

Hindle, P. Roads and Trackways of the Lake District (Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne 1984)

Holker Hall and Gardens, Official Guide (Holker Estate, Stafford 1990)

Johnson, S. Hadrian’s Wall (Batsford/English Heritage, London 1989)

Knapp-Fisher, H.C. Furness and Cartmel (St Catherine Press, London 1948)

Leach, A. Furness Abbey (Furness Heritage Press, Ulverston 1988)

Linton, E. Lynn. The Lake Counties (South-Elder, London 1864)

Marshall, J.D. & Davies-Shiel, M. Industrial Archaeology of the Lake Counties (Michael Moon, Beckermet)

Millward, R. & Robinson, A. Cumbria (Macmillan, London 1972)

Neilson, G. Annals of the Solway (Glasgow Archaeological Society 1856; 1974 ed Michael Moon, Beckermet)

NERC/IGS. British Regional Geology – Northern England (HMSO, London 1971)

Nicholson, N. Greater Lakeland (Robert Hale, London 1969)

Nicholson, N. Collected Poems (Faber & Faber, London 1994)

Palmer, W. The Verge of Western Lakeland (Robert Hale, London 1941)

Parker, J. Cumbria (Bartholomew, Edinburgh 1977)

Pevsner, N. Buildings of England Series: North Lancashire; Cumberland and Westmorland (Penguin, Harmondsworth 1969 and 1973)

Robinson, C. One Man’s Morecambe Bay (Dalesman, Clapham 1984)

Robinson, C. & Mitchell, W. Life Around Morecambe Bay (Dalesman, Clapham 1986)

Robinson, H. Walney Past and Present (Archaeological Associates, Abermeurig n/d)

Rollinson, W. A History of Man in the Lake District (Dent, London 1967)

Rollinson, W. The Lake District Landscape Heritage (David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1989)

Scott, W. Redgauntlet (Everyman, London 1906)

Soil Survey of England & Wales, Sheet 1 Northern England (HMSO, London n/d)

Smith, K. Cumbrian Villages (Robert Hale, London 1973)

Trescatheric, B. Walney: A Wall in the Sea (Hougenai Press, Barrow 1984)

West, T. The Antiquities of Furness (Author, Dalton 1774)

West, T. Guide to the Lakes (Law, London 1784)

Westfields Nature Trails Guide (Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council n/d)

Wood, O. West Cumberland Coal (CWAAS, Kendal 1988)

Wordsworth, W. The Poems (2 vols) (Penguin, Harmondsworth 1977 ed)

Wordsworth, W. Guide to the Lakes (OUP 1810; 1977 ed)

Wyatt, J. The Lake District National Park (Webb & Bower/Michael Joseph, Exeter 1987)

Most churches along the way have good guidebooks. The BBC Radio Cumbria website is a good starting point for information about points of interest along the walk.