Head left behind the car park past the marina basin, continuing beside the branch canal towards the main line. However, leave at the first bridge onto a lane and follow it right. At a junction, keep ahead along Jeremy Lane.

After some 500yds (457m), just around a sharp left bend, leave over a stile on the right. Follow the field boundary away, swinging left within the corner to another stile. An enclosed grass track leads out to a lane. Go left over a cattle grid towards Kendal Hill Farm. Beyond a bungalow but before reaching the farm, take a stile on the right. Cut left across the field corner to a small gate and walk ahead away by the left boundary. Cross a culvert and continue ahead for the next 0.5 miles (800m), a succession of stiles gates and bridges taking you from field to field towards distant Crook Cottage. Exit the fields beside the cottage onto a lane.

Go left along the seafront to the next house, called Lighthouse Cottage as it reputedly stands on the site of a monastic lighthouse and used to show a light from the corner window to aid navigators. Turn left from the sea and then bear right at a junction. Reaching the second sharp left-hand bend, leave through a kissing gate on the right and follow a track that angles across the fields to Cockersand Abbey Farm. Through a gate, wind right and left past the abandoned farmhouse and continue to the abbey ruins.

Carry on past the Chapter House to join the coast path, passing through a kissing gate to continue along the sea wall past Plover Scar. Emerging by a small parking area, meet the corner of a lane at Lighthouse Cottage. Follow the lane ahead back past Crook Cottage, this time continuing beyond it to the lane's end at Crook Farm.

Turn right in front of the farm, passing through a gate to leave along a grass track. It meanders away across grazing, generally heading towards a distant caravan park. Part-way along pass through a gate to cross a culverted creek, the track curving beyond to join an old hawthorn hedge. Leaving the pastures, continue along a rising hedged track past the caravan park to join its access lane. Walk out to the main lane.

Follow it left to a junction and viewpoint at the top of Tithe Barn Hill. Turn down right through the village, crossing the dock lock bridge back to the car park.