Carnforth

Carnforth is a small market town in in Northwest England. It's best known for its railway station, location for the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter, with the station clock ticking relentlessly to trammel the characters' lives.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Carnforth railway station and Warton Crag.

Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carnforth is a railway station on the Bentham and Furness Lines, sited 6 miles north of , England; it serves the market town of , in , England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

Scenic viewpoint
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is a limestone hill in north west , England. It lies to the north west of village, in City of Lancaster district. At 163 metres it is the highest point in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is listed as a "HuMP" or "Hundred Metre Prominence", having a "drop" or "prominence" of 126 metres with its parent being .

Church
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St Oswald's Church is in the village of , , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolton-le-Sands and Borwick.

Village
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is a large village and civil parish of the City of Lancaster in , England. The parish had a population of 4,098 recorded in the 2001 census, increasing to 4,127 at the 2011 Census.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district of , England, about 8 miles north of , on the . is situated 2½ miles northeast of Carnforth.

Carnforth

Latitude
54.1273° or 54° 7′ 38″ north
Longitude
-2.766° or 2° 45′ 58″ west
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
Open location code
9C6V46GM+WJ
Geo­Names ID
7293828
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