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Drinks in the square

Cartmel

(1.6 miles, 2.6 km, direction E)

Cartmel's village square is surrounded by old shops, pubs and a 14th century gatehouse owned by the National Trust...

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Allithwaite, Cumbria. Holme Lane looking towards Boarbank

Allithwaite

(2.0 miles, 3.3 km, direction E)

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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A blustery afternoon

Grange-over-Sands

(3.0 miles, 4.8 km, direction E)

The town is backed by beautiful woodland and overlooks the vast expanse of Morecombe Bay...

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Ulverston, Cumbria

Ulverston

(4.3 miles, 6.9 km, direction W)

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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Arnside in Cumbria, sunset over the Kent estuary, September 2006.

Arnside

(6.4 miles, 10.4 km, direction E)

This pretty village has all the ingredients of an old style fishing village with a delightful mix-match of charming properties rising up from a beach of firm golden sand littered with colourful sailing boats...

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Silverdale, Lancashire

Silverdale

(6.8 miles, 11.0 km, direction E)

The village of Silverdale once sat on the River Kent, but in the 1920's the river changed its course to reach the sea further westward. The deep-water channel of the Kent is now.....

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Dalton-in-Furness Castle, Cumbria

Dalton-in-Furness

(8.1 miles, 13.0 km, direction W)

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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Morning view from moors above Grizebeck, Cumbria.  Coniston Fells in the distance.

Grizebeck

(8.6 miles, 13.9 km, direction NW)

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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Askam-in-Furness

(8.8 miles, 14.2 km, direction W)

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Yealand Conyers

(9.4 miles, 15.2 km, direction E)

Yealand Conyers is in the midst of an area of outstanding natural beauty with eye catching views in every direction...

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Cartmel Priory

Cartmel Priory

(1.8 miles, 2.9 km, direction NE)

Cartmel Priory was founded in about 1189 by William Marshal, and has a long and interesting history to discover. ..

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The world famous Laurel & Hardy Museum in Ulverston, Cumbria. Birthplace of Stan Laurel

The Laurel & Hardy Museum

(4.5 miles, 7.2 km, direction W)

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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Lakeland Motor Museum

Lakeland Motor Museum

(4.9 miles, 7.8 km, direction N)

The fascinating Lakeland Motor Museum nestles in the picturesque Leven Valley, at Backbarrow, close to the southern tip of Lake.....

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Aquarium of the Lakes, Newby Bridge

(5.5 miles, 8.9 km, direction N)

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Canal at Fell Foot,

Fell Foot Park

(6.1 miles, 9.8 km, direction N)

A country park besides Lake Windermere with beautiful displays of daffodils and rhododendrons in season, picnic areas, boat hire,.....

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Arnside Pele (fortified tower)

Arnside Tower

(6.3 miles, 10.1 km, direction E)

The oldest building in the parish of Arnside. Arnside Tower is a ruin of a Pele tower which were fortified structures quite.....

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Hey, what ya lookin' at

South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Dalton-in-Furness

(7.5 miles, 12.1 km, direction W)

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Cheeky nuthatch

Leighton Moss R.S.P.B. Nature Reserve

(8.3 miles, 13.3 km, direction E)

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Dalton Castle

(8.4 miles, 13.5 km, direction W)

14th-century tower built to assert the authority of the Abbot of Furness Abbey...

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The ruins of Furness Abbey, near Barrow in Furness.

Furness Abbey

(9.4 miles, 15.1 km, direction SW)

St Mary of Furness was founded in 1123 by Stephen, later King of England...

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