Carnforth
Carnforth is a small market town in Lancashire 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carnforth railway station and St Oswald’s Church.
Carnforth railway station
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 Lancaster, England; it serves the market town of Carnforth, in Lancashire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
St Oswald’s Church
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Oswald's Church is in the village of Warton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
Warton Crag
Scenic viewpoint
Warton Crag is a limestone hill in north west Lancashire, England. It lies to the north west of Warton 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 Hutton Roof Crags.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borwick and Priest Hutton.
Borwick
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Borwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England, about 8 miles north of Lancaster, on the Lancaster Canal. Borwick is situated 2½ miles northeast of Carnforth.
Priest Hutton
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Priest Hutton is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England. It is located 5 kilometres north east of Carnforth, in the City of Lancaster, close to the boundary with Cumbria. Priest Hutton is situated 3 miles northeast of Carnforth.
Carnforth
- Type: Locality
- Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.1273° or 54° 7′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.766° or 2° 45′ 58″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)Open location code
9C6V46GM+WJGeoNames ID
7293828
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