D OA E R OR 26 SH NORTH Warton Warton Stock Car Racing Warton Crag Carnforth Heritage Trail Keer Estuary Washington House Warton Old Rectory Silverdale Leighton Moss Nature Reserve 1 Start from the Station Heritage Centre, where you will find 14 The Shovel Inn is one of the oldest inns in town dating from information about the historical heritage of our town as well 1754. It was used as a stopping place for stage coaches as the history of the local railways. from London to Glasgow and included holding cells for people the police had arrested. 2 Leave the station entrance, cross the car park and turn right into Haws Hill. The first building on your right is Station 15 Continue up North Road to number 101, the former home of House, the former home of Station Masters. This shows the Lord Cecil Parkinson of Carnforth, number 107 - Carnforth 6 respect and position held by the Station Master in the 19th House - one of the best kept old houses in the Town. 25 A and early 20th Century. 16 A little further on the right is the old CofE Vicarage (116) and M6 Jct 35 3 W Milnthorpe The next building on your right ,’The Haws’, was once a school opposite is Birkett’s Farm, one of the oldest working farms in A Kendal for girls run by a Miss Pickford in the late 19th Century. It is now town. This remains a viable dairy farm with pasture on both sides R Leighton Hall a private house. of the road. An ancient pear tree is still growing in the grounds. T Greenlands Farm Village O Tewitfield Marina N 4 4 17 Walk up Haws Hill to Lancaster Road. As you reach the top Return down North Road until you reach Hawk Street. As R D O of Haws Hill there is an imposing building on your left- you walk down the street you will notice the views of the old A A O Kerneforde Hall. This was the former National School and Iron Works site and Warton Crag. Half way down the street D R D was used until 1962. is the Emmanuel Congregational Church, built in 1896. N A 18 T L 5 Carnforth E Before the canal was built and the roads improved, this There is a back street almost opposite the church. Walk E 2 T R T O sloping junction was a significant feature of Carnforth. down this and the Town Council Chamber is the building on Heritage S R C to Heysham E T S Travellers from the south had a choice of going down Haws your left as you emerge onto Market Street. Centre N Café 1 U Fire 27 H 21 16 Hill to Warton via the Keer Bridge or straight forward for 150 Station yards and into North Road. The present A6 to the traffic 19 Cross Market Street and turn left up Lancaster Road. On E C A589 23 A lights and beyond, did not exist. your left is Christ Church and almost opposite is the old L P 2 M 22 R Police Station (1880). The name is still faintly legible in the A E D 15 HEYSHAM ROAD R V K I A 6 Turn right and walk down the hill to the traffic lights by Tesco. stone work of the building. A crest is seen in the area above Railway ET L RO 24 ST O H 1 REET 20 RT The Tesco site and the Lodge Quarry Industrial Estate the door. Station H O 18 A N W reminds us that stone quarrying and gravel extraction were K S 20 Heysham Village M T major industries in the Town. Return to The Traffic Lights and cross over lower Market R A E E Heysham Harbour PRE R T Street. Almost immediately turn right down the left hand ST O N STREET K 17 T E 7 Looking further south, the long terrace that you see on the left side of a small shop towards the car park of the E T E R 19 S beyond the petrol station is Bessemer Terrace, its name changed Supermarket. Before entering the car park notice the old T T T S E R to Hall Street and was absorbed into Lancaster Road. The row of cobbled back street on your left. This is thought to be one D E R E A houses was moved, stone by stone, from the Iron Works site when of the oldest streets in the Town. 3 R E W T T D steel making was introduced. E T L S E E 8 21 Booth’s car park occupies the site of the former Auction L R I T BACK NEW STREET S W N 14 Cross the road, turn right, and then almost immediately left Mart, operational until the 1950’s. Walk to the left within the H E E H 6 CARNFORTH 13 U O N S J E N A into the entrance area to the Lancaster Canal. Walk up to car park and you will see a plaque showing the site of the V A S W W the canal basin where pleasure boats call into the ‘Canal first Salvation Army Worship Centre within the town. This is A A 12 H Turn’ Public House. Some half a mile further south on the on the wall of the Carnforth Clinic. H B O D B east side of the canal are the remains of the Carnforth Coke O A B T 10 O R H T I 6 22 R D E Ovens. Coal was brought along the canal from Wigan and Continue to the left into Ash Trees Way. Turn right in front of S E H G 2 T R T 5 R E 4 11 O S turned into coke for domestic use. These ovens can be seen the doctors’ surgery and into the War Memorial Gardens. N I 9 D Trains to ENOR RO D E T V AD on a separate Canal Walk. Inscribed on the War Memorial are the names of those from R S A Playground U O O B Heysham Harbour R L O G O C R O Carnforth who lost their lives in the two World Wars and R X R F O O O 9 N E M K Return to Lancaster Road and turn right up the hill and past shortly afterwards as a result of their injuries. This memorial E E R T F V C D E S S I A O L 4 S E L the former school. The flats on your right, known as Oxford was erected in 1923 and was financed by donations from R A T L P G R L R D C D E O A Bolton le Sands N E Court, are on the site of the former Wesley Methodist Chapel. the residents of the town. N O S E P T T E R A T A V R Lancaster A 23 L R S O N R O N K R E A683 Bay Gateway 5 L O G V E 10 S Y A Cross Lancaster Road by means of the Pelican Crossing Adjacent to the gardens is the Fire Station, built in 1927 but still O S R T D G R M6 Jct 35 and walk into New Street. The imposing building on your operational today by retained fire fighters. Next to the gardens E E T Nether Kellet right is the former premises of the Carnforth Co-operative was the old Roxy Cinema (1921-61), now a supermarket. 3 Over Kellet Kirkby Lonsdale Society with a shoe shop, grocers, chemist and butchers. Upstairs was a grand hall which saw many local events 24 Across the road from this building is the Royal Station Hotel, A T E L E E R including Friday evening dances and films. currently being restored to its former glory. X E T H A S U G I N N L E 6 IN L D K V R S A A T S 11 25 R Return to the road crossing and proceed into North Road which Walk on into Warton Road past the old Crown Post Office, E R E C O E N T I A R was once the main road to Scotland. No 10 North Road is the over the railway bridge and to the right is the site of the old D P oldest house in Carnforth, built in 1688. Pass the Council Primary Carnforth Iron Works. If you walk down this road for about School and the Vicarage on your right. Next to the Vicarage is 100 yards you will see the original entrance to the Iron Plane Tree House, another house from the 18th Century. Works. This entrance is bricked-up because of the E P V R I IN R C dangerous access at this point. AL D E ET 7 ER CAN S RE LANCAST S A 12 T Carnforth V On the left a little further down the road is the Civic Hall, a T S N E ER E E N B E V U AL Cricket I E former drill hall for the 5th Battalion King’s Own Royal Regiment. 26 Walk on to the junction with Shore Road on the left, where U R Q 8 D Club S The property supports a firing range underneath the main hall. you will see the old horse trough used by the horses pulling G N I the slag to the shore tipping site.