Stages: 

Day 1 - Lancaster to Arnside: 15 miles

Day 2 - Grange over Sands to Lakeside: 9 miles

Day 3 - Lakeside to Elterwater: 15 miles

Day 4 - Elterwater to Rosthwaite: 10 miles

Day 5 - Rosthwaite to Ennerdale Bridge: 13 miles

Day 6 - Ennerdale Bridge to Cleator: 5 miles

Public transport links 

Trains:  

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Buses:  

https://www.traveline.info/

https://www.lakedistrictonboard.com/transport/lake-district-buses/

The Cathedral of St Peter, Lancaster 

Lawful Catholic worship in Lancaster started with the building of a chapel (now the Palatine Hall) in Dalton Square in 1799. By 1847 this chapel had become too small for the growing congregation, and a three-acre plot was bought at Greenfield. The school, convent and cemetery were built first. The new church was consecrated and dedicated in 1859. It is a fine building of warm buff stone with a tall steeple. The interior is light and impressively proportioned. In 1924 the Liverpool diocese was divided, and St Peter’s became the Cathedral for the new Diocese of Lancaster.

Cartmel Priory

The Priory was founded in 1190 by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, as a community of the Augustinian Canons and was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Michael. The gatehouse, which apart from the church itself is the only surviving structure of the medieval priory, was built between 1330 and 1340. 

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 the priory was surrendered by its then community of ten canons, but as part of the Pilgrimage of Grace the community was reinstated, one of perhaps 16 such cases. The prior, Richard Preston, who had not thrown his lot in with resistance and had fled to the Crown forces, was rewarded with a parochial living to supplement his Crown pension. Others had a different fate. After the failure of the rising the subprior and several of the canons were hanged, along with ten villagers who had supported them. 

The Dissolution commissioners had instructions to pull down the priory and sell the materials for the profit of the Crown. This would have meant the Priory's church being demolished but the founder William Marshal had given an altar within the church to the village. The villagers petitioned to be allowed to keep the church as it was their only place of worship, and this was granted.

During the 19th Century the Church was restored in a way which has been described as "more enthusiastic than sympathetic". Today the Church is an Anglican parish church, and the National Trust owns the Priory Gatehouse. 

The Anglican Church of St Andrew, Stonethwaite 

A chapel on this site is recorded in 1505 but the current Church was built as a chapel of ease and consecrated in 1687. It fell into ruin but was rebuilt in 1762. In 1765 it was granted a burial ground to relieve parishioners of the 'great inconvenience, labour and expense' of carrying the dead to Crosthwaite. The church was restored in 1824-25 and again in 1873 when a chancel was added. It is a peaceful rural church closely sitting in one of the most picturesque areas of the country. 

The Catholic Church of St Mary & Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Cleator Moor 

Cleator boomed as a mining town in the nineteenth century, bringing many Irish workers. A Benedictine mission was established in 1853. A stone church was built with seating for 600. This building later became part of St Mary’s School when the present church was built in the 1870s. It is a good example of an E. W. Pugin church and retains much of its original character and furnishings. It was reordered in the 1970s. The Grotto was built in 1927, when international travel was difficult for most people, as a shrine to Our Lady. It was built with stone from the local mine pit banks and made to represent the Grotto at Lourdes. It became a place of pilgrimage for people from Lancashire and Cumbria and was dedicated by Cardinal Basil Hume in 1980.