A FORTY-seven-strong team of walkers crossed the Levens Estuary to help raise £8,000 for Rosemere Cancer Foundation.

The picturesque three-mile trek, guided by Raymond Potter and sponsored by construction company Eric Wright Group, set out from Canal Foot near Ulverston and finished at Sandgate Farm near Cark.

It replaced this year’s annual Rosemere Cancer Foundation Cross Bay Walk from Arnside to Kents Bank, which was scheduled to take place in early June.

The event was cancelled after Queen's Guide Cedric Robinson declared the channels crossing the sands of Morecambe Bay unsafe following prolonged winter and spring rain.

Dan Hill, Rosemere’s head of fundraising, said the charity planned to add the Levens Estuary trek to its charity walks calendar, adding: "Providing we don’t have another very wet winter and spring, our Cross Bay Walk will also be back.”