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LAXEY Visitor Guide

and Heritage Trail

Explore the heritage of Laxey from the “Wheel” to the shore. The Laxey Laxey

Laxey village is situated on the east coast of the . The village extends for just over 2 kilometres from the mine workings in its upper reaches - Wheel identifiable by the famous Laxey Wheel, along the steep sided glen in a south easterly direction, to the picturesque and unspoilt tiny harbour at the North The Laxey Wheel was designed by end of a wide bay. It is from here i.e. ‘Old Laxey’ the original historic Manx engineer Robert Casement. The wheel’s axle was forged by the settlement of fishermen’s crofts that the village has evolved. Mersey Iron Works of but the cast iron rims were made on the Island by Gelling’s Foundry at Douglas. The The Great timbers of the wheel were shaped by In 1999, the Laxey and Heritage Trust Manx artisans and the whole structure The Laxey mine was extensive and at it’s peak the Great Laxey Company began the restoration of the surface section of employed over 600 miners. Consequently the mining company became responsible the former tramway. A bequest from the was assembled here on the Island. The for the establishment and development of much of the village as it exists to this estate of the late Lt Col R S Glenn funded the wheel has a diameter of over 22 metres, day. During this time, two main areas were developed. First being the harbour building of two fully working replicas of the (72 feet 6 inches), and a width of 1.8 area: used to bring in supplies as well as transporting the and from the original Ant and Bee. The restored Great metres (6 feet). It is capable of pumping mines off Island, and secondly along the valley towards the main mining areas, Laxey Mine Railway was officially opened on 1136 litres (250 gallons) of water per located about a mile inland from the harbour. In addition a number of larger 25th September, 2004. Passengers can now minute from a depth of almost 457.2 properties were constructed on the hills around the valley, these were typically the ride in a tiny carriage along the line where metres (1,500 feet). The mine shaft from homes of the managers and supervisors who ran and operated the mine, many of loaded wagons of were once hauled from which the water was pumped was sited which are identified as part of the Heritage Trail. the mine. The railway, a quarter of a mile in about 410 metres (450 yards) from the length, runs up the valley from the former great wheel. The power from the wheel Washing Floors, now the Valley Gardens, to was transmitted to the pumping the main adit entrance where there is a picnic mechanism by a series of rods supported The Great Laxey Mine Railway site, footpath and information boards by and running along an imposing explaining the mining features. masonry viaduct. Mining for lead and zinc began at Laxey in about 1780. By the mid 1870s the Great The Laxey Wheel is only a short walk away. The official opening of this huge wheel Laxey Mine was one of the richest and most successful metal mines in Britain. Shafts had The line runs beneath the main Laxey to took place in September 1854 when the been sunk to depths of over 2000 feet deep and nearly 1000 men, together with a few Ramsey road and the Wheel was set in motion by the women and young lads, worked at the mine. The main level of the mine was known as through the longest railway tunnel on the Honourable Charles Hope, the the Adit Level. It entered the hillside beneath the Laxey Wheel, connecting with each of Island! the shafts deep underground and having a maximum length of nearly 1 1/2 miles. Lieutenant Governor of the Island. The Steam trains normally run on Saturdays and A tramway ran along the entire length of the adit level and was used to carry the mined wheel was named ‘Lady Isabella’ in Bank Holidays, from Easter until the end of honour of the Governor’s wife. The ore out of the mine to the Washing Floors where the ore was prepared for sale. The September (and every Sunday during tramway wagons were originally hauled by ponies but in 1877 they were replaced by two 150th anniversary of the Lady Isabella August). Please check with Laxey Tourist was celebrated in 2004 when a re- 19 inch gauge steam locomotives built by Stephen Lewin of Poole, Dorset. Named Ant Information for further details. and Bee they remained in use until the mine closed in 1929 and were broken up for scrap enactment of the original ceremony took a few years later. place at the Wheel. Since 1989 The Lady Isabella has been administered by and is a fantastic starting point for the ‘Heritage Trail’ detailed in this leaflet.

2 Photo courtesy of Lily Publications / Department of Tourism and Leisure 3 Old Washing Floors The Mine Waterwheel

An essential part of the mining process was the separation of the waste stone The was situated from the precious in preparation for its transportation to the market at the head of the Laxey Valley place. These processes were carried out on the area known as the ‘washing on the lower slope of Snaefell floors’. The entire ‘dressing’ process was carried out by water power and four water wheels operated in this area, driving machinery known as ‘jiggers, Mountain. The remains of the crushers & buddles’. During the peak years of production over 300 people mine can be seen today from (men, women & boys) worked on the washing floors preparing the ore for the tramcars of the Snaefell shipment. Although much of the machinery was dismantled following the Mountain Railway as they climb Second World War, there are still many areas of interest & clues to the towards the Bungalow station. former use of the site. In 1865 a 15.4 metre (50 1/2 feet) diameter Ore was brought out of the mine in ore caused the ores and remaining waste waterwheel was built to pump water from trucks, hauled by one of two steam stone to separate into layers due to their the mine. It was supplied by L & G Howell engines named ‘Ant’ or ‘Bee’. The ore was differing densities. of the Hawarden Ironworks in Flintshire. tipped from the wagon down the stone The waste stone removed from the chat When the mine finally closed in 1908, the waterwheel was sold and then chutes known as ‘teams’ into storage table, crushers and jiggers was tipped re-erected at Blisland in Cornwall, being used to pump slurry from a china clay bunkers below where the ore awaited the next to the river, on the upstream side of pit. In the 1970s, the components of the wheel were preserved by the Trevithick first stage of the dressing process. During the main road. Eventually the heap of Society and were stored for a number of years at a Welsh mining museum. the 1870s the original set of teams were stones, known as ‘the deads’, towered abandoned and new teams were In 2003, the Laxey Mines Research Group, in conjunction with the Laxey and over the houses of Dumbells Terrace. constructed at the northern end of the Lonan Heritage Trust, reached agreement with the Trevithick Society to return The deads remained a conspicuous washing floors at right angles to the the components to Laxey and re-erect the waterwheel in the Valley Gardens, the feature of the Laxey valley until the original set. former Great Laxey Mine washing floors. All the waterwheel components were Second World War. Some stone was fully refurbished, new woodwork was fashioned, a new water supply and Ore was taken from the teams to a grate, removed to be used on a scheme to aqueduct were constructed and a new footbridge placed over the river. An appeal located near the position of the present widen the northern end of Douglas to raise funds for the restoration proved very popular and the waterwheel was stone stage area, to be thoroughly Promenade. The vast majority of the rebuilt and officially set in washed. The mixture of stone and ore stone was removed to be used as infill motion as Lady Evelyn on was broken by hand into small pieces for the runway of the RAF station 20th August 2006. and tipped onto a large revolving constructed at in the north of the wooden table known as the ‘chat’ table, Island. By 1943 the deads had all but The restoration team where waste stone was hand picked and disappeared. together with Evelyn Jones removed. After undergoing a number of whom the Wheel was named mechanical crushing processes the ore after are pictured left. was tipped into the ‘jiggers’. These were, For further details in their simplest form, large sieves into of the Snaefell which the ore was placed and which Waterwheel, log onto were then vibrated in wooden boxes www.snaefellwheel.com filled with water. The ‘jigging’ process

4 5 LAXEY Heritage Trail As a guide the walk will take approximately two hours to complete at a leisurely pace. See Heritage Trail Map at the back of this guide.

superseded ponies in the 1870s to bring George’s Guild founded by John Ruskin, used for a joiner’s ore out of the mine via the main adit, and reopened as such in 1881. The mills workshop. The passed the “Deads”, to the washing floors operated on the principle “from the neighbouring (see 3) for sorting. Nearby the mountain track to the wearer’s back” – i.e. Department of Adit was the first mining trial dug. you should be able to have a suit made Transport’s depot out of the wool you supplied to the mill. started life as the 3 Across the main road “Blacks” was Use of steam powered machinery was not slaughter house formerly Parr’s Bank and allowed but was briefly introduced in the for the “Upper subsequently became Dumbell’s Bank. 1940’s and 1950’s, until the mills returned Co” (Cooperative The Bank collapsed in 1900 with the loss to hand production as today. The Laxey Society). The of many people’s savings including those tartan is one of its most popular products. public recreation of the tramway company and Robert ground on both Williamson, owner and operator of the sides of Glen Road is the generous legacy 5 The broken weir serves as a reminder Laxey Glen Gardens. The nearby entrance of the disastrous effects of a rain storm of the Trust. Henry to the washing floors which Robert in September 1930 which resulted in the Bloom Noble was an entrepreneur who Casement designed in 1848 (see also 1 weir being blocked by a tree trunk swept had extensive property interests in Laxey and 12) where you can now find a fully down the swollen river. The resulting flood and Lonan. restored known as Lady affected all but one property in Glen Road Our heritage trail starts at the world Evelyn. and knocked out the power station, on the Palladian House was the Wesleyan 1 7 famous Laxey Wheel. Known as “Lady far bank of the river, which supplied the Methodist Chapel dating from 1843 Isabella”, the world’s biggest water wheel Manx Electric Tramway. On the left hand but enlarged to its present form in 1850. was christened on 27th September 1854. side many of the original cottages were When Primitive and Wesleyan sects of Designed by Manx engineer Robert improved by the addition of new frontages Methodism united, the “Prim” Sunday Casement (see also 3 and 12) and used for - courtesy of the endeavours of Laxey school on Minorca Hill became the seat of driving the pump rods to force water out miners who had emigrated to South Africa worship and the Wesleyan Sunday school, of the mine, the wheel became a tourist and other mining countries for work and on the opposite side of Glen Road, attraction in itself. The Browside subsequently returned wealthier or sent became the hall. Seaward of Palladian Tramway, (which utilised a water-based money home. Opposite Verndale, the House, houses are built on the site of a counter-balancing system), carried visitors home of local builder John Mylroie, the former builder’s yard and early chemical up the slope for 1d, and downslope men Victoria Terrace workshop has the masque factory/dyeworks. Behind Chapel Terrace were charged 1/2d, while ladies went free Exit the bottom of the washing floors of his son who died as a student from are the remains of one of Laxey’s two 4 to the pleasure grounds in the current car and follow the river onto Glen Road influenza. Mylroie’s were responsible for Breweries. park area. where it meets the Glen Roy tributary. many buildings in the village including On the opposite side is a private dwelling, Chapel Terrace and former boarding The Mona Lisa restaurant and the 8 formerly the village infant school. This 2 The footpath down to the left below houses Seafield and Ravenscliffe. adjacent buildings are located in the Cronk y Chule, leads above the former operated in conjunction with the National former Laxey Equitable Co-operative changing rooms of the mine (see 16) to School which was on the hillside above The public footpath on the left leads (Lower Co.) premises. The co-operative 6 the recently reinstated Great Laxey Mine the Woollen Mills. The mills started life to the Quarry Falls, a hidden waterfall supplied everything - “from the cradle to Railway which boasts the longest tunnel as water powered corn mills but were in the surroundings of the former Hogg’s the grave”, and had its own slaughterhouse in the Island! The railway, with two acquired by Egbert Rydings a silk weaver quarries, supplier of local building stone. at the rear. Old Laxey Bridge or “Monks engines the “Ant” and the “Bee”, from Clitheroe in Lancashire and the St. At its base a former water wheel case was Bridge” is medieval in origin and has 5

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arches, although one is now wholly under opposite dug out to serve the village. station and turbine house for the Manx the road. It led to the “Puncheon” road a Electric Railway, a carpet factory and a film studio. The larger of the buildings as packhorse route to Ramsey - a local is said 10 Laxey Promenade was built in 1929 to have carried a puncheon of ale up the as part of a winter work scheme for a power station had a flue 60ft high hill for a mile and a quarter! The bridge former miners. Originally the beach reaching the height of New Road above. was only widened in the 1820s the route extended back to Back Shore Road or Pig Coal was brought across a bridge on a having been replaced by Minorca Hill, the Street. The car parking area was the “jack branch of the wagonway from Glen Road. first horse and cart route 20 years earlier! store” (black jack is another name for zinc The path carries on uphill to the rear of A final widening took place in the 1870s ore) and the current cafe was a lead store. ‘the Dips’ - the BMX track, and following to enable the wagonway from the mine In the summer months boats were the right hand branch leads to the “Car which came along Glen Road to swing available for hire. The area was to have Sheds” where the first tramway station around the corner on to the bridge and been the site of Rowe’s “Brighton of the was built when the track initially reached thence down to the harbourside. North” scheme for tourism development. Laxey in 1894. The station was moved Overlooking all is the hilltop “keeill” site Until recent years the TT’s popular Honda along the line to its present location (see Laxey Glen Flour Mills, designed by of St. Niglus. This early Christian chapel gathering event still attracted huge crowds 14) as bridges were built. Ahead, a stile to Robert Casement (see 1 and 3) is the only had a well at its foot reputedly running and was one of the last events visited by Lower Rencell Hill and steps lead to New surviving operational flour mill on the red with blood after a battle. The nearby the charismatic Joey Dunlop. On Shore Road (completed a few months before Island. Captain Richard Rowe, a chalet site was briefly the home of the first Road is the Salvation Army Hall, built in Cornishman (see 9), opened Cunningham’s holiday camp for young 1825 as the first Primitive Methodist “Lady Isabella” in 1854) and to the offices the mill in 1861 and his family crest men on the Island. Church. of Laxey Village Commissioners. This building was purchased from Robert adorns the front of the building; the same symbol is used to indicate the purity of Prior to the opening of the mine, Old Williamson in 1938 and was part of the 11 tin exported from Cornwall. Laxey was the original village based premises used in the production of “pop” around fishing and industry, with mills, and acetylene. The Glen Gardens, originally opened warehouses and a red herring house. It’s 13 as “Victoria Park” in the 1860s by former post office was the birthplace of 12 To the left, the Queens Hotel, which like other pubs in the vicinity evolved Robert Williamson (see 10 and 11), the later styled “King of Laxey” Robert with the stage coach route, was scene of a accommodated a host of attractions and a Williamson who founded the Glen major fire in 1905. Towards the village pavilion. The glen, now owned by the Gardens (see 11 & 13) and a family grocer centre another former ‘rest and be Department of Environment, Food and shop which was later run by his brother Agriculture, is made freely available for Tent Road was named after the tents thankful’ - “The Commercial” or “The 9 James. Uphill on the right attached to public use. The nearby Glen House was erected here for Laxey Fair. Here the Coach and Horses” is now the Laxey Cronk-na-Quill is reputedly the smallest Williamson’s own home and a hotel sailing club now uses the Old Laxey Health Centre. In contrast, the former house on the Island formerly occupied by designed by one of the Island’s finest Working Men’s Institute and Reading Temperance Hotel (opposite the Old a shoemaker. The Shore Hotel built in architects W. J. Rennison. On the right Room, built in 1871 by the miners. Next Police Station) is now a private house. 1837 was the site of the second Laxey hand side of New Road, is “The Working the former warehouse was opened in 1866 “Moore’s Bridge” is one of the highest Brewery and is still used as such today. Men’s Institute”, erected in 1876 by the by Captain Rowe, Erskine Clothing viaducts in the Island built by John James Following the river upstream alongside miners for their educational benefit. It Factory in the 1930s and Laxey Pipe Moore of Baljean. Running proudly the Shore Hotel, the footpath leads to two has seen many notable village events such Factory in the 1960s. Captain Rowe was adjacent to it is a fine Railway Bridge built industrial buildings variously used as flax as the first Commissioners elections in also responsible for having the dock in only 3 months in 1898 by Mark Carine. mills, paper mills, dye works, power 1895, the first film show and the inquest

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into the tragic Snaefell Mine disaster - the Completion necessitated demolition of a 17 The Building Housing Ballacregga Tea Island’s worst mining disaster when 20 third of the Mine Captain’s house which Rooms was formally the a 18th men lost their lives. became licensed premises after the large century water driven corn mill which was station dining rooms burnt down in 1919. operational until the start of World War Next door Montague House, with a Opposite its rear entrance onto Captain’s freemason’s symbol above, was built for Opposite, the road and path lead up the Hill is a closed footpath called “the William Stevenson in 1868. This was the line of the former Browside Tramway and Captain’s path” which was used as the first building occupied by the Laxey back to the start of the walk. personal route of the Mine Captain to the Industrial Co-operative Society (the Upper Washing Floors. Co.) who later built the nearby White House buildings. In the 1960’s Montague Beyond the MER goods shed is the House was refronted and now houses the Blacksmiths workshop and yard. The village chemist. building is still used by a blacksmith, albeit not a farrier.

15 In the Heritage Garden at the entrance to Mines Road is the “Miners Statue”. To be completed late summer 2015, the memorial will be a figure of a Miner carved from dark grey “Carlow station and the outline of the original Blue” limestone. Behind the statue is the opening may be seen on the front gable. Snaefell Mountain Railway to the “Seven Kingdoms” which was opened in 1895 the 16 Mines House was used as the mine’s 5 mile route having been constructed in office and in the early 20th century as just 7 months. the Mine Captain’s house. The mountings Dumbells Row, the longest line of purpose for a bell used to signal the shift changes built (1860) industrial housing under a are on the garden wall and an original ore continuous roof line on the island was truck donated by Mr John Corlett of nicknamed “Ham and Egg terrace” after Ballacowin Farm is in the garden. The most houses started selling teas and meals adjoining Mine Yard contained a to visitors in their front rooms. Only the blacksmith’s yard, a carpenters’ workshop Laxey Diner, formally Browns Café and a gunpowder store which is now the 14 Turn right into the station area. In the established in about 1906 in No.2 remains public toilets! On the opposite side of the former gardens of the Mine Captain’s in catering use. Other former tourist river were the changing rooms for the house (now the Mines Tavern), is Christ attractions in Mines Road included miners who then went underground along Church Laxey. Built as a chapel of ease in photographic booths and working models the cross cut adit to descend to the levels 1853/4, the church was consecrated in of the Laxey Wheel. Laxey Tourist where they were working. Stables 1856. The tramway from Douglas to Information Centre and Gift shop accommodated the ponies who pulled ore Ramsey was completed in 1899 and operated by Laxey and Lonan Heritage trucks from the mine. The buildings combined in one station area with the Trust was previously used as the village fire washed away in the 1930 flood, a year after extended Snaefell Mountain Railway. the mine officially closed.

10 11 Old Laxey Old Laxey is on a little flat in 5 days though you might want to allow Laxey Fair between steep heights at the a bit longer. Perhaps the best views of Old Laxey are This annual event is held on the last Saturday mouth of the Laxey River. obtained by approaching from the sea. of June. Traditionally regional fairs were held Today the original village centre is a During the summer months the Island’s on the feast day of the local saint, and were popular spot for visitors. The promenade largest coastal passenger vessel - the preceded by a church service in the early area is quite undeveloped and the bay traditional m.v. Karina operates cruises to morning. Laxey fair was one of these, the most offers a long stretch of sandy beach and Laxey Harbour. The Karina which is important one in this part of the Island, held dozens of rock pools for exploration. included on the prestigious National on St Lonan’s Day (August 5th) at the foot of During the summer months young people Maritime Museum’s register of historic the river meadows, where the harbour is now. enjoy swimming out to the wooden raft ships regularly departs from Douglas for a It continued well into the 19th century when, shackled to the foreshore. 3 hour return trip to the seaside village of with the expansion of the mines, it was Following the zig zag path from the Old Laxey. The cruise passes many gradually crowded out and it lapsed for many southern end of the promenade and famous landmarks including the Tower of years. The revival of the Laxey Fair in the continuing over Old Laxey Hill one can Refuge, Derby Castle, Head, location of the “Old Washing Floors” is again a pick up the electric railway at ‘South , Clay head, Garwick Cove well attended annual event, the local Cape’ stop. From Laxey Headland one can then across the bay to Laxey Harbour. schoolchildren parade in costume access the -the way of the Most of the way you will see magnificent acknowledging the village’s mining heritage. gull which is clearly marked with the gull cliffs with marine and bird life. The on a blue sign. This long distance coastal return trip allows about one hour ashore walk of some 95 miles can be walked at picturesque Laxey. King Orry’s Grave

The village links with our Viking friends indicates that Laxey was The largest known megalithic tomb on the Laxa a bountiful stopping off place. “Laxey” comes from the old Norse island lies on both sides of Ballaragh Road. “laxa” (a in Old Norse means river and is common in the Island, The Cairn (stones built as a monument or a whilst “lax” means salmon.) landmark grave) is made of coloured sandstone The name originally denoted the river and not the settlement but the two have come to with a forecourt of 12 metres across and 4 mean the same. Salmon migrate upstream from Laxey harbour favouring the Glen Roy metres deep. It contains three chambers once tributary (at its junction opposite the Woollen Mill). The stone footbridge within Laxey filled with burials, when excavated only one Glen is a good vantage point from which to observe the salmon making this arduous burial and bowl survived. journey in late evening during the autumn months. Spawning will take place in the area King Orry’s Grave, as it is commonly known, of Laxey Glen where the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture also tells something of the residents who lived on maintain a salmon hatchery to boost the river stock. River fishing opens on 1st April the Isle of Man during the Neolithic times over through until the end of September for brown trout salmon and sea trout, with an 4000 years ago. The site was built by farmers as extension to the end of October for migratory fish only. The ideal time to land salmon a memorial to their ancestors. Ceremonies held or sea trout is late summer/early autumn. Licences, required for fishing all inland on the site left traces of hearth and flint. This waters, with the exception of Concessionary Season Reservoir licences, which are burial place dates from long before the period available at DEFA headquarters, St Johns and most Island Post Offices, all licences are of the Orry Kings, who were buried at Iona, available to purchase online only via the Government’s Online Services. Assistance and Furness Abbey, and Abbey. facilities are available at the DEFA headquarters, St Johns, and at the Welcome Centre, Sea Terminal, Douglas if you do not have your own internet access.

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Lady Isabella Great Laxey Metalwork in the The Woollen Mills The ‘Mylroie” The Quarry Falls Palladian House Old Laxey bridge or The Warehouse Old Laxey Laxey Village Laxey Glen Laxey Glen Christ Church Dumbells Terrace Mine Adit Former 18th Mine Railway washing floors masque ‘Monks Bridge’ Commissioners Flour Mills Laxey century water offices driven corn mill Point of

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u • House of Manannan i n e l l Information St ’s Isle i coordinated by Laxey Village Commissioners with • Leece Museum M LAXEY TT COURSE • Manx Transport Museum PEEL Great Laxey Wheel The Laxey & Lonan Heritage Trust shop and kind assistance from Andrew Scarffe of the Laxey • Peel Castle Peel Castle Glen Helen House of Manannan Great Laxey Mine Railway & Lonan Heritage Trust, and Patricia Newton and • A1 visitor information centre on Mines Road opens Moore’s Traditional Kippers Ma n x Tr a n s p o r t M u s e u m Tynwald Hill Arboretum daily from Mid March to end of October: 10.30am Martin Faragher who devised the trail. / Leece Museum A18 A2 Clay Head Photographs are courtesy of Daniel Kneale, • Village Folk Museum A27 Patrick St Johns Ballacraine to 4.30pm, telephone 01624 862007. The Trust also Andrew Scarffe, Sarah Henthorn, Patricia Newton • The Sound Visitor Centre (and Café) Greeba offer guided walks during the season exploring A1 and Peter Burgess. The production of this RAMSEY A2 aspects of the heritage of the area. TT COURSE • Grove Museum of Victorian Life Glen Maye Crosby brochure was funded jointly with Isle of Man Groudle Glen Railway • Milntown House Information may also be obtained on week G l e n V i n e Groudle Glen Tourism. Dalby A1 days from the Commissioners Offices at ST JOHNS Niarbyl Visitor Centre Douglas Horse Trams © 2014 (and Café) 35 New Road. • Tynwald Hill A24 G a i e t y T h e a t r e & V i l l a M a r i n a A27 Manx Museum & iMuseum DOUGLAS Tynwald Buildings Accommodation USEFUL NUMBERS A5 Tower of Refuge Niarbyl Bay South Barrule Horses Home SEA TERMINAL Camping is available on the Quarry Road campsite A3 WELCOME CENTRE & WELCOME CENTRE from Easter to September. For further details or to +44 (0)1624 686766 St Marks Camera Obscura MAP KEY Steam Railway Terminus A26 A5 TT Mountain Course make a booking please phone 01624 861241 or VILLA GAIETY BOX OFFICE Manx Electric Railway Terminus Mann Cat Sanctuary Glen email: [email protected] A36 A Roads +44 (0)1624 600555 A27 y a Port Soderick w For information regarding alternative i l A5 a R B Roads Airport (Ronaldsway) ISLE OF MAN RAILWAYS S a m Fleshwick Bay t e accommodation available in the village please AND Railway Ferry Terminal +44 (0)1624 662525 Rushen Abbey contact the Tourist Information Office at the Town / Village www.iombusandrail.info Sea Terminal Building, Douglas, telephone: 01624 Bradda Glen Colby BallasallaBallasalla Raad ny Foillan Millenium Way (footpath) RONALDSWAY AIRPORT A7 686766 , or visit the Department’s website at AIRPORT +44 (0)1624 821600 A5 Raad ny Foillan (coastal path) www.visitisleofman.com PORT ERIN Billown Railway Museum Manx Aviation & Military Museum Hospital ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET Road Racing (Southern 100 Club) +44 (0)1624 661661 Cregneash Golf Course Glen PORT ST MARY CASTLETOWN Castle Rushen NOBLE’S HOSPITAL C r e g n e a s h V i l l a g e Sound Old Grammar School +44 (0)1624 650000 Folk Museum Scarlett Visitor Centre Old House of Keys The Chasms Nautical Museum RAMSEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL The Sound Visitor Centre Laxey Village +44 (0)1624 811811 (and Café) ISLE OF MAN WEATHER Commissioners 0900 6243 300 35 NEW ROAD • LAXEY • ISLE OF MAN • IM4 7BG Telephone (01624) 861241 Website www.laxey.org

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