Walks from Silecroft station
3 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Silecroft — the closest is Black Combe at 3.6 km, the highest Black Combe at 600 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
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- Station code
- SIC
- Grid reference
- SD131819
- Coordinates
- 54.22596, -3.33444
- Locality
- Silecroft
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 7,644 · #2,401 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 3
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 Silecroft station
Silecroft is a stop on the Cumbrian Coast Line between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness, serving the villages of Silecroft and Kirksanton, 19 miles north-west of Barrow. It opened with the line on 1 November 1850, built by the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway, and stands to the west of Black Combe Fell.
The station was a request stop until December 2023. A signal box at its south end controls one of the many level crossings on this section of the route, and some through trains to the Furness Line towards Lancaster call here. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Silecroft railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 3 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Silecroft 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 | Black Combe | 600.2 m | Wainwright Outlying FellDeweyTrail 100+6 | 3.6 km | N |
| 2 | White Combe | 417 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkett | 4.9 km | NE |
| 3 | Stoupdale Head | 472 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 5.8 km | N |
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 Silecroft 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
2 waymarked long-distance routes pass 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 |
|---|---|---|
| King Charles III England Coast Path | 2282 km | 1.2 km |
| Cumbria Coastal Way | 108 km | 1.3 km |
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.
- Silecroft on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps