Arnside

Arnside is just over-the-border in Cumbria, across the Kent Estuary from Grange-over-Sands.

It is best approached by the B5282 - the other roads are somewhat narrow - and from that road there is a good view of the estuary.


As it nears Arnside, the road follows a disused railway that used to connect to the West Coast Mainline at Hincaster. This is the view of Arnside station from the footbridge, and you can see the estuary beyond it. The old railway joined this line just beyond the platform, from the right.


After going through the station, the line crosses the estuary on a viaduct that is just over 500 m long, built in 1857, and reconstructed in 2011.


This is the view upriver from the beyond the railway.


The road from the station heads to the front, then curves left to run along the estuary. There is a pub, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, on the corner, and a free car park on the other side of the road.


Looking towards the sea.


Further along is a second pub, the Albion, looking rather more busy.


Looking back up the estuary.


There is not much of Arnside off the esplanade - what there is is up the road beside the Albion. This is the view looking back down the road...


I headed up the side road, and past the Methodist church.


And a bit further along, this curious building, apparently a folly or summer house. The lack of information on it makes me think it is not that old at all.


St James Church.


Higher up the hill is the Memorial Playing Field.


From where there is a view back over the estuary.

The hill is called Arnside Knott, and from the other side of it, Arnside Tower can be seen - somewhat to the left in this image. Morecambe Bay can be seen in the distance. This is a ruined Peel (Pele) Tower - a fortified manor house - built some time around 1400, and unoccupied since about 1690.







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