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08 CUMBRIA SEDGWICK

3.7 miles/6km

2 hours

Easy

54m

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This canal-side walk is different, in that it follows a waterway with no water. The Northern Reaches of the Lancaster Canal were abandoned in 1956 to make way for roads,

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