Warton Crag
Warton Crag is a nature reserve in Warton, Lancaster, England. Warton Crag is situated nearby to the suburb Millhead, as well as near the village Yealand Conyers.Places of Interest
Highlights include Carnforth railway station and Leighton Hall.
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.
Leighton Hall
Manor estate
Photo: Anglovirtual, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leighton Hall is a historic house 0.5 miles to the west of Yealand Conyers in Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Warton Crag
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Anglovirtual, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Carnforth and Arnside and Silverdale.
Carnforth
Photo: Jay Son, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Arnside and Silverdale
Photo: Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arnside and Silverdale is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in North West England on the border between Lancashire and Cumbria. It's one of the smallest AONBs, just 29 square miles between the Kent Estuary, the River Keer and the A6.
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.
Warton Crag
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Warton, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.1486° or 54° 8′ 55″ northLongitude
-2.7788° or 2° 46′ 44″ westOpen location code
9C6V46XC+CFOpenStreetMap ID
way 161162211OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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