Cathead Wood

Cathead Wood is a forest in Halton-with-Aughton, Lancaster, England. Cathead Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Halton Green, as well as near the locality Crook of Lune.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Halton railway station and St Wilfrid’s Church, Halton-on-Lune.

Halton railway station

Railway station

Photo: Dr Greg, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Halton railway station served the village of Halton in Lancashire, England. It closed in 1966, but the station building and part of one platform survive beside the cycle path along the disused line.

St Wilfrid’s Church, Halton-on-Lune

Church

Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Wilfrid's Church is an Anglican church in Halton-on-Lune, a village in the English county of Lancashire. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Lancaster.

Halton narrow toll bridge

Bridge

Photo: Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carnforth and Bolton-le-Sands.

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.

Bolton-le-Sands

Village

Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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

Caton

Village

Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Caton-with-Littledale is a civil parish in the Lancaster district, in Lancashire, England, near the River Lune. The parish lies within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and contains the villages of Caton, Brookhouse, Caton Green, Littledale and Townend.

Cathead Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Halton-with-Aughton, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.0857° or 54° 5′ 9″ north

Longitude

-2.7283° or 2° 43′ 42″ west

Open location code

9C6V37PC+7M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 60219091

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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