Great Close Wood
Great Close Wood is a forest in Claughton, Lancaster, England. Great Close Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Aughton, as well as near Farleton.Places of Interest
Highlights include Hornby Castle and St Saviour’s Church, Aughton.
Hornby Castle
Castle
Photo: Andy Hawkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hornby Castle is a country house, developed from a medieval castle, standing to the east of the village of Hornby in the Lune Valley, Lancashire, England.
St Saviour’s Church, Aughton
Church
Photo: Ron Shirt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Saviour's Church is an Anglican parish church to the north of the hamlet of Aughton, Lancashire, England.
St John the Evangelist’s Church
Church
Photo: Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Evangelist's Church is in the village of Gressingham, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carnforth and Caton.
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.
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.
Hornby
Village
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hornby is a village in the civil parish of the parish of Hornby-with-Farleton, within the Lancaster district of the county of Lancashire, England. It is 9 miles from Lancaster, situated on the A683 the village lies at the confluence of the River Wenning and Lune In 2011 the built up area had a population of 468.
Great Close Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Claughton, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.1008° or 54° 6′ 3″ northLongitude
-2.6783° or 2° 40′ 42″ westOpen location code
9C6V482C+8MOpenStreetMap ID
way 757088378OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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