B5302 road

At its eastern end, it comes very close to the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and passes by Silloth Airfield, left over from the Second World War.

The B5302's western terminus is in the coastal town of Silloth-on-Solway, at the junction with the B5300 coast road (which runs south to Mawbray, Allonby, and Maryport).

As it winds through Silloth, first heading west, then north as Criffel Street, then east as Wigton Road, it is constructed from cobblestones, unchanged from the Victorian era.

One-and-a-half miles from Calvo, past the side-road that leads to Blackdyke, is Kingside Hill, named for the local legend that King Edward I encamped there during one of the early wars between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.

Bending sharply to the right part-way through the village, another side-road here leads to the council estate Friars' Garth, as well as Holmcultram Abbey, which was converted into a parish church following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s.

After leaving Abbeytown, the road heads in a vaguely south-easterly direction, passing mostly fields with the occasional farmhouse, eventually reaching Wheyrigg after one-and-three-quarter miles.

[12] In 2013, a quad bike rider was left with serious injuries in an accident on the road near Causewayhead, and was airlifted to Newcastle hospital by the Great North Air Ambulance.

[15] From Silloth-on-Solway, a connecting bus service (the number 60) runs south down the B5300 coast road to Blitterlees, Beckfoot, Mawbray, Allonby, and ultimately Maryport.

[16] From Wigton, connecting trains on the Cumbria Coast Line run approximately once an hour north to Carlisle and south to Whitehaven, and occasionally Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster.