I did a good walk from Kirkby Lonsdale yesterday 23 Jan., starting at Devil's Bridge, up through the caravan park and across fields and by lanes to Fellfoot Road, a bridleway. Noticed some peculiar large boulders in the corners of 2 fields, each enclosed in a stone wall, about 8 feet square, with a stile into the enclosure. What can these be? Glacial erratics, perhaps, but why walled in like this? Then left the bridleway and cut across park-like fields with impressive specimen trees past several fine mansions, e,g. Whelprigg, to Barbon. At one point had to fend off a horse that wanted to come through a gate we needed to open. At Barbon we had lunch in the churchyard, where there are plenty of benches and a picnic table, and also noticed what was still to be seen of the old railway alignment: an 8 ton limit bridge carrying a green track over the old cutting, otherwise mostly built on (and not permitted for walking where it isn't). We then walked back across a golf course, and along the Barbon Beck, towards Casterton, deviating from our planned route at one point because the path through woods was blocked by fallen trees. There are some maddening paths in this area which would allow many convenient walks if they were rights of way, e.g. the Underley School bridge across the Lune.
My most recent walk was a small hill called Nicky Nook near Garstang (Scorton) with excellent views over Fylde, Morecambe Bay and the Bowland Fells in the immediate area.
It explains the slight kink in the M6 just before it crosses the Wyre.
Nicky Nook is a 5 mile round walk from Scorton village, up and over the M6 until the lane ends at a T-Junction just where the Nicky Nook paths shoots straight up into the moors all the way to the trig point. You could turn back or head over and down to Grizedale reservoir and head back down the valley and turn right at the first moment back to the road you just turned off.
You can see a map of the area in the attachment to my post no. 125 in this thread. I agree, it's a fine place for a walk.
Yesterday (29 Jan.) I did the other half of my recce at Colne, walking from the station to Foulridge, round 2 sides of the larger reservoir, across the road, and then across the smaller reservoir by a causeway, where I got splashed by waves whipped up by the strong wind, then down to Christ Church on the Keighley road, where I had time for a bite to eat on a bench in the churchyard before catching the 14:00 M4 bus at the stop opposite, where I had finished the previous half-recce 2 weeks earlier.
Today 12 February I did an exhilarating walk on my own in a howling gale and driving rain on Kirkby in Furness fell. From the station (arr 11.22) I walked up the lane and then turned right up a footpath marked for the A595, to look at the interesting model buildings crafted in slate in a garden at Bell Hall, well worth seeing. From the A595 I then walked up the track of the old slate tramway to the lane that comes up steeply from Chapels, turned right and went past Longlands caravan site to the fell gate which gives access to the moorland and windfarm. I followed the track as far as the second wall corner (blundering by taking the path at the first wall corner by mistake, but soon realised where I had gone wrong). This brought me to the lane from Ulverston to Kirkby, which I crossed, continuing along a broad grassy track (very wet with fords) until I reached a point where I could make a zig zag descent to Gargreave, a fold of cottages. I crossed the A595, walked through fields until a footbridge and then turned right and crossed more muddy fields to the hamlet of Soutergate. I then headed for the coast but turned right across fields to Sandside, and then left and across the railway for a short section along the shore to Kirkby in Furness station. A delightful walk, in spite of the weather. Railway photographers could get good shots of the trains crossing the Duddon Moss between Foxfield and Kirkby from the bridleway that goes up from the fell gate to Horse Head.