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If you like the scramble along the shore, continue along the shore as there are frequent opportunities to join the cliff-top path. Reach a shallow bay with wave strewn shingle. Grange-over-Sands is seen beyond the next headland. There is an exciting scramble along a rising rock gangway up the cliffs. This narrows and has an exposed step near its top. Turn left along the cliff-top path. If this is too daunting, continue round the headland to reach a small inlet with an obvious path through a gap in a wall to join the cliff-top path and turn left.

The path keeps close to the cliff edge and is narrow and exposed in places, although its situation makes it perhaps the most scenic coastal path in the north-west as it twists above rocky coves on a narrow grassy ribbon on the edge of the dense woods. As the path turns a corner at Park Point ignore a gangway path down to the sands, and keep on the cliff top with fine views across the bay to the south Lakeland fells.

At the cove of White Creek ignore a path left at a wall. Keep straight on in the woods, with the wall on your left, passing the junction of another path coming in on the right. Turn right at a T-junction a few metres further (left leads to a gate and White Creek Caravan Site). Keep straight on where the forest track swings left into private woods, up the long hill amongst the trees of Arnside Park. This is not a right-of-way, but is a very well used path. The landowner requests that dogs are kept under strict control. At last the path levels and a gate is reached into the National Trust area of Heathwaite.