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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  • 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: Carnforth railway station and Christ Church.

Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carnforth is a railway station on the Bentham and…

Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
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St Oswald's Church is in the village of , , England.

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.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the City… is situated 2½ miles northeast of Carnforth.

Carnforth

Latitude
54.1282° or 54° 7′ 42″ north
Longitude
-2.7701° or 2° 46′ 12″ west
Population
7,920
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB CNF
Open location code
9C6V46HH+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29496129
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2653715
Wiki­data ID
Q578024
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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: “کارن فورتھ”
  • Volapük: “Carnforth”
  • Welsh: “Carnforth”
  • “Carnforth”

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