Silloth Tourist Information

The popular seaside holiday resort of Silloth lies in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Backed by the Lake District Fells, the town has views across the Solway Firth to Southern Galloway.

Silloth has wonderful sunsets and the landscape artist JMW Turner was attracted here to paint them in the early 19th century.

The town became a railhead and port in the 1850s and was developed with wide tree-lined streets.

There is an attractive 36 acre open space known simply as 'The Green' between the town and the sea and a wide promenade stretching away to Skinburness.

Silloth retains its small but busy dock.

Aspatria lies inland, between Maryport and Wigton. Its name means 'the place of St Patrick's ash tree'. Saint Kentigern's Church in the small town is noted for its pre-Norman monuments.