Solway Firth Coastline
Route facts
Waterways:
Bassenthwaite Lake »
Distance: 34 miles / 54.4km
Duration: 5 hours
Circular route from: Wigton
This cycle is ideal for anyone interested in history. Keep your eyes open as your bike follows a route scattered with ancient monuments and Roman remains.
The route can be completed in a whole or split into shorter options.
Waypoints
1. Wigton to Angerton
Start from the monument in Wigton town centre. With the B5034 to your left, cycle along the B5302, bearing right at next fork. Turn right onto A596 very briefly then immediate left (again the B5302) towards Lessonhall - you are now on the Cumbria Cycleway. At Lessonhall, follow signs to Newton Arlosh. From here, go straight through village to Angerton.
2. Angerton to Glasson
At Whitrigg, turn left and follow the Cumbria Cycleway, with the Solway on your left. Keep a look out (just after the Nature Reserve and before Bowness) for the remains of the huge embankments built out into the water for the railway bridge which once crossed over to Scotland here. Continue through Bowness on Solway and Port Carlisle. Leave Cumbria Cycleway at right turn for Glasson or continue straight on to visit site of Roman Fort at Drumburgh. Drumburgh Castle was originally built almost entirely with stones from the Roman Wall. Go even further along this road for Burgh-by-Sands, where the church (again, built with stones from the Roman Wall) still has a fortified pele tower which served as protection for the villagers against the Reivers who were notorious bandits in the 16th Century. Just beyond the village is the monument erected in 1685 to mark the place where King Edward 1st died in 1307. You will return by the same road to Glasson.
3. Glasson to Wigton
After about 2 miles, turn left for Whitrigglees. Here you need to continue straight on at Crossroads to Gamelsby, then next right to Moorhouse. You will then arrive back in Wigton.
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