Barrow-in-Furnace is defined by three things, the glorious red Sandstone ruins of Furnace Abbey, founded by King Steven in 1132, its beautiful sea and coastline where visitors thrill to the exciting sight of tall ships competing in the Tall Ship's Festival, and the magical views of Lakeland's distant towering peaks...
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Dalton-in-Furness can be found at the meeting point of the roads leading from the mass of sands forming the Furness peninsula-one road leads from Ulverston and the other from.....
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Old town and port with cobbled streets and a pretty market square. It is surrounded by the Furness fells, Coniston Water, Lake Windemere, and the spectacular Cumbrian Mountains. .....
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The town of Millom developed close to the banks of the estuary of the River Duddon. It nestles in the shadow of the Black Combe, beyond which lies the majestic scenery of the.....
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This little village is set along the glorious Whicham Beck against a back-drop of dramatic scenery encompassing fells and the Black Combe...
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This is a place that is all "Morning Glory" as the sun rises over the vast sweep of the moors, nature seems at peace with herself showing an intringent range of moorland colour and newly awaken wildlife creatures, out in search of food...
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This attractive little place can boast of once being an important market town with a history stretching back to around the 15th and 16th centuries...
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Allithwaite is a small village situated a couple of miles inland from the favoured resort of Grange-over-Sands. It is also within easy reach of Cartmel with its racecourse and old priory...
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All towns in Cumbria14th-century tower built to assert the authority of the Abbot of Furness Abbey...
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The last foreign invasion of England took place in 1486 when Irish and Flemish supporters of Lambert Simnel landed at Piel in a.....
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The Laurel and Hardy Museum is appropriately sited in the town of Ulverston, Stan Laurel's birthplace. He was born in 1890, the.....
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The tall ornamental chimneys, gables and mullioned windows of Holker Hall stand stark against the vast skies covering.....
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Black Combe stands some 10 miles away from any higher ground, giving it an excellent all-round panorama of land and sea, with.....
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Cartmel Priory was founded in about 1189 by William Marshal, and has a long and interesting history to discover. ..
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The fascinating Lakeland Motor Museum nestles in the picturesque Leven Valley, at Backbarrow, close to the southern tip of Lake.....
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