Arnside

The village faces the estuary of the River Kent, and is within the Arnside/Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The village lies on the railway line to West Cumbria, which passes over the River Kent via the Arnside viaduct. Up to the 19th century, the village had been used as a local port, but the building of the viaduct caused the estuary to silt up.

The oldest building in the parish is Arnside Tower, a Pele tower built in the 14th/15th century as a defence against raids from Scots and the Border Reivers.

Arnside railway station, which serves the village, is located on the Furness Line giving connections to Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands, Carnforth and Lancaster.

Geography

External links

• Arnside Parish Council
• Aerial photograph
• . This is from the Ordnance Survey of Westmorland. (The view of Lancashire and Furness is misleading - it was outside the surveyors' area and they have left it as an outline only.)