Furness Tours
Highlights Tour
Some of the attractions which can be covered in a tour include:
The Abbey of St. Mary of Furnesia, a magnificent ruin of a vast and imposing building constructed in the distinctive local red sandstone and set in the deep, wooded valley of Bekansgill.:
Built in a Victorian Graving Dock in Barrow-in-Furness. Find out how Barrow grew from a small hamlet into an industrial power. Includes coffee shop, playground, and promenade walks linked to the Cumbria Coastal Way.
A historic hall about two miles from Lindal, recognised as the birth place of Quakerism
The world famous Laurel & Hardy Museum in Nearby Ulverston.
Gleaston Water Mill with its nearby Castle was Re-built in 1774, the present structure is a typical imposing Georgian building of three storeys, the walls and lintels of which contain much red sandstone, which was probably taken from the ruins of Furness Abbey. The roof was made of local Burlington blue slate from quarries at Kirkby - in - Furness and it was re-roofed with slates from the same quarry in 1990.
Conishead Priory, a rambling Gothic mansion.
Originally a hospital for the poor founded in 1160 by Augustinian monks now a modern-day Buddhist centre, Conishead Priory has a long history of healing and spiritual renewal.
The present building was rescued from dereliction in the 1970s and is being painstakingly restored by the Buddhist community, who have also constructed the magnificent Temple for World Peace in the grounds.
Sir John Barrow Monument. Overlooking the town of Ulverston on Hoad Hill, (birth place of Stan Laurel, June 16, 1890) is the dramatic limestone lighthouse facsimile built in honor of Sir John Barrow (1764-1848). He was an important figure in British Naval History and has lent his name to both Barrow Point northern Alaska and Barrow Strait, Canada.
The fascinating Lakeland Motor Museum nestles in the picturesque Leven valley, at Backbarrow, close to the southern tip of Lake Windermere.
A diverse and unique collection of some 30,000 exhibits, carefully assembled over a period of almost 50 years,
The Original Villages Of Barrow