{"id":781,"date":"2025-05-07T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-05-18T21:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T21:13:40","slug":"day-03-walney-to-st-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Day 03 – Walney to St Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started out from Walney and had a little bimble through Barrow-in-Furness to look around town.\"Outdoor<\/a><\/p>\n

First stop was Furness Abbey, which was absolutely delightful in the morning sunshine.<\/p>\n

\"Ruins<\/a><\/p>\n

I climbed up to Dalton and stopped to look at Dutton Castle, which is small and believed to be a former court house. There was a cycleway to Askam-in-Furness: they\u2019ve painted green the bit of tarmac that sits outside the white line on the very fast main road. When I arrived, I headed out to the point and had a look across the water to Millom.<\/p>\n

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The climb out of Askam was challenging. Barely outpacing pedestrians on the pavement. Certainly going slow enough to have a conversation while I passed. Traffic was light on the A595 and it was enjoyable riding. I was still glad when I reached Kirkby-in-Furness, got off the main road and saw Pam’s Cafe, which is open on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. So I just managed to catch it open.<\/p>\n

\"Pam\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

Over coffee & a warm-from-the-oven cheese scone,, I got talking to some locals told them where I was headed for the day and asked them about a potential shortcut across a bridal way. They confirmed it would work, so I got a lovely ride out across Dutton Mosses marshlands which was was just stunning. I popped back out on the A595 and turned up into Broughton-In-Furness for lunch at the Square Cafe.<\/u>\"Street<\/a><\/p>\n

It was another tough climb out of Broughton. It had a chevron on he map. I was rewarded by a great view and a thunderous ride down the the A595 to a traffic light controlled bridge.<\/p>\n

The road climbed ahead and I was so focussed on preparing myself for that that I didn’t notice I should have turned off, so I had a massive climb to do. I just kept plugging away. Plugging away.<\/p>\n

At Hill Top, I stopped to look at a beautiful 12th century Church, which was open for VE day. There was nobody around but it was open. And then into Millom I didn’t stop for long. An oncoming driver turned right across me and hit the brakes hard when she noticed 18 stones of cyclist in her way.\"Bronze-coloured<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t think I would have ridden the A595 on any other day. On a bank holiday Monday afternoon, there was very little traffic about and it was a nice ride. At Bootle, my OS map route encouraged me off the main road and took me up.<\/p>\n

A couple of steep climbs in the heat were sweatingly uncomfortable. The views of the mountains and the sea were amazing. It would have been rude not to stop and admire them. I could see four miles and miles. And miles.<\/u><\/u>\"Quiet<\/a><\/p>\n

\"View<\/a><\/p>\n

Another massive descent later took me down to Muncaster Bridge. My progress was slowed by another climb up over the top at Muncaster Castle. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After a drink and a little snack at the Ravenglass Inn, I picked up Hadrian’s Cycleway up the coast to Seascale. The coast cycleway at Sellafield has been closed for four years. It’s been washed away at the northern end. Typically, I persevered and found that out only when I reached the northern end. I carried the bike over the tricky bit.<\/p>\n

Hadrian’s Cycleway took me nearly to Egremont where I turned off to St Bees. I arrived at The Queen’s more than 10 hours after I left Walney. My longest day so far.<\/p>\n

Day totals: 64 miles,\u00a0 3,253 ft climbing<\/p>\n

Tour total: 188 miles,\u00a0 7,821 ft climbing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started out from Walney and had a little bimble through Barrow-in-Furness to look around town. First stop was Furness Abbey, which was absolutely delightful in the morning sunshine. I climbed up to Dalton and stopped to look at Dutton Castle, which is small and believed to be a former court house. There was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irishsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}