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 |
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Photo: Jay Son, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 7,920 residents
- Description: town near Lancaster in the north of Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Carnforth, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carnforth railway station and Christ 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borwick.
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.
Carnforth
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.1282° or 54° 7′ 42″ northLongitude
-2.7701° or 2° 46′ 12″ westPopulation
7,920Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CNFOpen location code
9C6V46HH+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 29496129OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Carnforth” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Carnforth”
- Basque: “Carnforth”
- Bengali: “কানফোর্থ”
- Cebuano: “Carnforth”
- Chinese: “卡恩佛夫”
- Chinese: “康福斯”
- Dutch: “Carnforth”
- French: “Carnforth”
- German: “Carnforth”
- Gujarati: “કાર્નફોર્થ”
- Irish: “Carnforth”
- Italian: “Carnforth”
- Japanese: “カーンフォース”
- Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ನ್ಫೋರ್ತ್”
- Korean: “칸포스”
- Ladin: “Carnforth”
- Lithuanian: “Karnfortas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carnforth”
- Persian: “کارنفورث”
- Polish: “Carnforth”
- Portuguese: “Carnforth”
- Romanian: “Carnforth”
- Russian: “Карнфорт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carnforth”
- South Azerbaijani: “کارنفورث”
- Spanish: “Carnforth”
- Swedish: “Carnforth”
- Tamil: “கார்ன்போர்த்”
- Telugu: “కార్న్ఫోర్త్”
- Turkish: “Carnforth”
- Urdu: “کارنفورتھ”
- Volapük: “Carnforth”
- Welsh: “Carnforth”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Carnforth”. Photo: Jay Son, CC BY-SA 3.0.