LUNE VALLEY LUNE VALLEY LUNE VALLEY IN ENGLAND’S NORTH COUNTRY IN ENGLAND’S NORTH COUNTRY FURTHER 9 To Windermere To Carlisle & the Lakes & North INFORMATION A590 A590 36 EDINBURGH To Barrow- A65 A683 Our Tourist Information in-Furness GLASGOW Arnside NEWCASTLE Centre is here to help you KIRKBY CARLISLE Grange- A6 over-Sands LONSDALE make the most of your visit. M6 LUNE VALLEY LEEDS A6070 Please feel welcome to ‘phone LANCASTER Y MANCHESTER E A687 CARNFORTH L for information or to make 35 L BIRMINGHAM A MORECAMBE V accommodation bookings: BAY E To Yorkshire N Dales L U LONDON MORECAMBE A683 DOVER 34 PLYMOUTH 9 Lancaster Tourist Information Centre LANCASTER 29 Castle Hill, Lancaster LA1 1YN HEYSHAM E M6 N U L R To Preston Tel:+44 (0)1524 32878 TRAVEL E V & South I 33 Fax: +44 (0)1524 382849 INFORMATION R A6 www.visitlancaster.co.uk Email: [email protected] BY CAR The Lune Valley is easily accessible from the M6 motorway. Exit at Junction 34 (Lancaster) or 35 (Carnforth). There are also Local Tourist Information Points at Crook O’Lune Picnic Site,The Dragon’s Head, BY RAIL Whittington and Post Offices at Caton , Hornby, Regular train services to and from the Lune Valley operate Over Kellet & Nether Kellet from the main railway stations at Lancaster and Carnforth. National Rail enquiries: 08457 48 49 50 ACCOMMODATION BY BUS/COACH For the perfect short break in the Lune Valley, there is The Lune Valley towns and villages are serviced by an excellent range of quality accommodation available Stagecoach (0870 608 2 608) and National Express from hotels to bed & breakfast, (01524 582808). Carnforth Connect provides further self-catering converted barns, travel information (01524 734311). lodges and a wealth of camping and caravan sites. For an BY CANAL AND BIKE A waterbus runs between Lancaster and Carnforth accommodation guide to the (see attractions). Bikes are also available for hire from area call (01524) 32878. Lancaster Railway station. For both canal and bike For bookings call Lancaster’s enquiries call Budgie Transport on (01524) 389410. Accommodation Booking c Hotline on (01524) 582393 Gressingham Lancaster City Council or go to Economic Development & Tourism Services, 2006 www.lancaster.gov.uk www.visitlunevalley.co.uk Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the information in this leaflet is accurate Lancaster City Council cannot accept any responsibility in respect of any error or omission. Design: 01539 737913 Photography: Sparks Jon www.sinclair-design.co.uk WELCOME TO THE LUNE VALLEY The Lune Valley is an undiscovered The idyllic Crook gem of England’s North Country O’Lune in its and represents one of the finest wooded river corners of our ‘green and pleasant setting, the land’. waymarked Lune Valley Ramble and Between the picturesque town of gritstone Clougha Kirkby Lonsdale and the historic city of Pike provide some Lancaster is one of the most attractive Crook O’Lune picnic site of the best views in stretches of river where the silvery the country. Historic villages such as Lune meanders through a landscape of Hornby,Wray and Melling lie waiting outstanding natural beauty. Here you will to be discovered. find unspoilt and ancient villages, historic churches and winding lanes, tumbling The Lune Valley has a place in literary streams and wooded valleys, wild moors history too. Poet William Wordsworth, and lowland pastures. in his popular ‘Guide to the Lakes’ recommended travellers not to miss the Savour the beautiful surroundings and Lune Valley on their way to the Lakes. enjoy the sweeping views of the Forest of Bowland, Lake District and Yorkshire Bring your watercolours and sketchbook Dales. as well as your camera to capture the inspiring scenery that the great English You will find a warm welcome in the painter JMW Turner made famous in the Lune Valley’s hotels, bed & breakfasts and 1800s. country pubs, plus your hosts will not be short of suggestions of where to walk Nowadays, the Lune Valley is still a haven and explore. for artists who will want to share their enthusiasm for the landscape with you.The Lunesdale Studio Trail stages excellent exhibitions during the summer. Come and follow in Turner’s footsteps and celebrate the unique beauty of the Lune Valley. Littledale, Forest Wray Scarecrow Eating out of Bowland Arkholme Leeds to Morecambe Railway Clougha Pike Lancaster Canal Waterbus LUNE VALLEY Hornby KIRKBY LONSDALE LECK ATTRACTIONS 5 REDWELL FISHERIES • FELL o THE FOREST FISHING Arkholme, Carnforth LA6 1BQ Lune Valley Ramble Burton in OF BOWLAND Redwell Fisheries Tel:015242 21979 1 DOCKER PARK FARM Tel:015242 21979 Kendal Cowan Bridge Tel:01772 534140 The Lunesdale Walk Whittington • Bank House Fly Fishery Tel:01524 770412 Arkholme, Nr Carnforth LA6 1AR www.redwellfisheries.co.uk • • www.forestofbowland.com Forrest Hill Fly Fishery Tel:01524 752566 Tel:015242 21331 Enjoy fishing in beautiful surroundings with M6 DOCKER A65 This Area of Outstanding Nature Beauty Salmon day permits (Mon - Fri) for Caton www.dockerparkfarm.co.uk views of Ingleborough.Well stocked lakes PARK FARM Burrow offers a wide range of unspoilt landscapes • Water and evening sea trout at Halton Visitor centre on a contain carp up to 30lb, bream, tench, rud A6 A6070 and visitor facilities. Explore this wild working farm.Tractor upland landscape with its nature trails fishery from Mrs. Curwen Tel:01524 770078 and many interesting hybrids. Between Tewitfield 1 •Tunstall rides, piglets, calves and Over Kellet and Arkholme on the B6254. • B6254 which are a unique place for birdwatching. horses. Feed the lambs Borwick LANCASTER Burton in Relax in Bowland’s hotels, try a camping GOLF • Lonsdale Kirkby Lonsdale (Casterton) in spring and collect 6 CROOK O’LUNE CANAL barn or dine out at one of its many restaurants and pubs. Tel:015242 71592 eggs daily. Lots of Where the River Lune has carved itself 2 • • Arkholme High Bentham Tel:015242 61018/62455 activities for children dramatically into the valley sides, Crook 3 Melling CARNFORTH Capernwray • Wennington Forrest Hills (Quernmore) and adults.Tearoom O’Lune has been a famous viewpoint I • Gressingham WALKING & Gift Shop. • 4 LOYN 3 • High Tel:01524 752566 and picnic spot for generations. • Bentham Over• 5 BRIDGE k A683 There are plenty of good walks in 2 • 3 PICNIC SITES THE LANCASTER CANAL 7 BANK HOUSE Kellet Low • this unspoilt corner of England.The Picnic sites, parking, snack bars and toilets are & WATERBUS FLY FISHERY • Hornby Bentham walking is gentle and the views are M6 CROOK situated at Crook O’ Lune and at Bull Beck Originally built to carry trade between Caton, Lancaster LA2 9HX dramatic. Leck Fell is the highest O’ LUNE on the A683 between Caton and Claughton. Kendal and Preston, the canal is now a Tel:01524 770412 Wray• point in Lancashire at 2058ft. There is a large car park in the centre of haven for wildlife and offers quiet country A perfect place to fish. Stocked daily with lm n GREAT The waymarked Lune Valley Hornby beside the River Wenning with walking in the beautiful northern area of brown, tiger, blue and rainbow trout. A6 Claughton 6 • STONE OF Ramble runs for 16 miles from riverside walks, children’s playground and the Lune Valley.The towpath links Lancaster Bank and pier fishing.Tuition available Halton SCARECROW FOURSTONES Lancaster to Kirkby Lonsdale picnic tables. and Kendal, covering a distance of 27 miles and beginners welcome.Tackle for 7• FESTIVAL • 8 Caton Brookhouse along the banks of the Lune. and can be conveniently walked over hire, flies for sale.At Caton • two days. H TEAROOMS just off the A683.Two miles Morecambe Littledale o TATHAM The waymarked Lunesdale Walk Lancaster Canal Waterbus 9 FELLS runs from Wennington to Carnforth Just right for when you’ve ‘walked up an from Junction 34 of M6. • FOREST OF Tel:01524 389410 and can be followed as a series of appetite’:The Cottage Tearoom, Caton; BOWLAND Bridge House Farm,Wray; Docker Park www.budgietransport.co.uk 8 GRAY'S SEAT day or weekend walks, easily Heysham LANCASTER Farm, near Arkholme and Nose Bag, The canal boats Millennium Swiftsure and & VIEWPOINT •9 accessible by public transport. Swallow are available for single or return • CLOUGHA Bentham. The Poet,Thomas Gray The Carnforth Canal Walks trips through the beautiful Lancashire described this spectacular PIKE Quernmore explore the glorious countryside LUNESDALE OPEN countryside, between Carnforth to view in 1769 as having j • near the Lancaster canal around STUDIO TRAIL Lancaster and Tewitfield. “Every feature which constitutes the district of Carnforth linking two Tel:015242 61718 a perfect landscape”. Many artists of England’s Areas of Outstanding www.lunesdalearts.co.uk 3 LEEDS TO MORECAMBE have painted here, including JMW Natural Beauty;‘The Forest of A partnership of RAILWAY Turner.The view in the far distance Bowland’ and ‘Arnside & Silverdale’. professional artists working This scenic railway runs through isolated is of flat topped Ingleborough. k LOYN BRIDGE m WRAY VILLAGE & in collaboration to display countryside before crossing the Lune on & CASTLE STEDE SCARECROW FESTIVAL Guidebooks and maps are available their own work in the rural the long bridge at Arkholme.There is a link 9 THE RIVER LUNE Dating from 1684, the attractive stone From late April to Early May you will from Tourist Information Centres. settings that provide so to the Settle-Carlisle Railway and walks MILLENNIUM PARK built Loyn Bridge is situated just north of find the village inhabited by fun-loving much of their artistic close to Wennington and High Bentham Lancaster’s Millennium Project stretches Hornby where the bridge takes the road scarecrows who magically appear each inspiration.All their studios stations. some 15 kilometres along the banks of the over the Lune to Gressingham.