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2016.09.25 - Coach Ramble - Arnside Round Walk 'A' group. A & B groups followed same route largely on shore edge from Arnside to New Barns where they split. The  'A' group continued to Far Arnside, Hollins Farm & up to Arnside Knott (viewing point)., down to Arnside Cemetery, under rail track and up to Hazelslack Tower, Fairy Steps, through Underlaid Wood to Storth, Sandside (through 'railway cutting', on edge of salt marsh (on old Hincaster railway track) back to Arnside - leaders Susan Rushworth & Jan Randall - Sunday

Kent Viaduct near Arnside
warning notice
starting walk from Arnside
train on Kent Viaduct
 
passing Arnside Coastguard Station
 
 
Grange Over Sands behind. Children being instructed how to sail
 
 
 
 
one of several fishermen seen
limestone rock in most of area
a drain for water runoff
 
 
 
 
zoomed into building on far side
as above
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
zoomed into Heysham Nuclear Power Plants - apparently both 1 & 2 operating managed by EDF
 
 
 
 
with mud on boot soles a slippery limestone slope to ascend
 
 
 
 
Grange Over Sands
 
 
 
 
Heysham closer in
black belted Galloway cattle
brown belted Galloway cattle
 
 
view toward Lakeland mountains
 
 
view toward Lakeland mountains
Arnside Cemetery
 
 
Hazelslack Tower - Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, intended as watch towers where signal fires could be lit by the garrison to warn of approaching danger.
 
 
Fairy Steps - not to be attempted by the obese
 
Kent Viaduct seen from the North
 

The Hincaster railway link - now a trail. The picture here is of the Sandside Cutting
the railway line (now a trail) was on an embankment to the East of the Milnthorpe Sands
 
Old Signal Box on railway line Arnside to Grange Over Sands

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