Arnside has been a fishing village, boat building centre and Victorian playground. The stone jetty is testimony to the visiting pleasure craft of yesteryear. A peaceful village with pretty shops,…

On the site of Yewbarrow Lodge apartments in the centre of Grange-over-sands, once stood a 19-Century house of the same name. In 1915 the the owner, Arthur Leigh, died when…

Furness Abbey near Barrow in Furness was once one of the richest Cistercian monasteries in England. The wealth came from such things as farming, controlled fishing, production of grain and…

Rock carved graves at Heysham

Cartmel has been celebrating the 800th anniversary of the man who founded Cartmel Priory. The church was founded in 1189 by Sir William Marshall on land recently granted to him…