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Arnside

This quiet town on the Kent Estuary, with its short but elegant promenade, was once a busy port with its own shipbuilding and sea-salt refining industry. The estuary silted up during the 19th century, a process accelerated by construction of the striking 50-arch railway viaduct, so the port declined. Today, it is a favourite retirement destination and a peaceful holiday resort.

Around Arnside itself, there is a wonderful choice of country walks, particularly over and around Arnside Knott. This limestone headland, now a nature reserve rich in old woods and wild flowers, is part of the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Knott comes from the Saxon word meaning rounded hill, which, in this case, rises 521 feet above sea level and gives extensive views of the Lakeland fells, the Pennines and the southern Cumbrian coast. There is a beautiful path around the headland and along the shoreline past Blackstone Point.

Inland, and found down a quiet lane, is the ruined Arnside Tower, one of the many pele towers that were built in the area in the 14th century. This particular tower dates from the 1370s and it may have been part of the chain of towers designed to form a ring of protection around Morecambe Bay.