Walks from Foxfield station
14 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Foxfield — the closest is Burney at 5.2 km, the highest Buck Barrow at 549 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- FOX
- Grid reference
- SD208854
- Coordinates
- 54.25867, -3.21606
- Locality
- Foxfield
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 14,572 · #2,332 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 14
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Foxfield station
Foxfield station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness, 11½ miles north of Barrow. It serves the villages of Broughton-in-Furness and Foxfield in Cumbria, and is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foxfield railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 14 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Foxfield is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burney | 298 m | Wainwright Outlying FellHuMP | 5.2 km | E |
| 2 | White Combe | 417 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkett | 5.5 km | W |
| 3 | Blawith Knott | 248 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 5.9 km | NE |
| 4 | Stoupdale Head | 472 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 6 km | W |
| 5 | Great Stickle | 305 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 6.1 km | N |
| 6 | Dunnerdale Fells | 280 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 6.4 km | N |
| 7 | Tarn Hill | 313 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 6.6 km | N |
| 8 | The Knott | 284 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 6.7 km | N |
| 9 | Tottlebank Height | 236 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 6.8 km | NE |
| 10 | Stickle Pike | 375 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge+2 | 7.3 km | N |
| 11 | Wool Knott | 223 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 7.6 km | NE |
| 12 | Raven's Crag | 360.8 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 7.6 km | N |
| 13 | Yew Bank | 207 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 7.7 km | NE |
| 14 | Buck Barrow | 549 m | Wainwright Outlying FellDeweyBirkett+2 | 8 km | NW |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Foxfield before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Long-distance paths from this station
One waymarked long-distance route passes within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| Cumbria Coastal Way | 108 km | passes the station |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Foxfield on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps