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Bay Horse is worth a stop: 15 minutes from Garstang, 13km from Trough of Bowland.
Bay Horse is in England, United Kingdom, with about 2,200 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Garstang, about 8 km away.
Bay Horse railway station (also known as Bayhorse station) was a rural station in Lancashire, England. It was named after the nearby Bay Horse Inn, and later the small hamlet of Bay Horse developed around the station.
The station opened in 1840 on the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, by a level-crossing onRead more
Whams Lane. Many years later, the road was diverted 100 yards (100 m) north to pass under the railway by bridge.
In the 1840s, Jack Smith, an engine driver frustrated by having to wait every Sunday for the level crossing gate to be opened, carried out his threat to drive through the closed gate. The impact was sufficient to derail the small engine, although nobody was injured.
A much more serious accident occurred on 21 August 1848, when a northbound Euston to Glasgow express ploughed into the back of a local train stopped at the station. A woman was killed and about twenty passengers were injured. The woman's 18-month-old child was thrown out of the carriage window but was barely injured.
On 24 October 1861, a northbound mail train collided with a goods train at the station, but only a driver, fireman and one passenger were injured.
The station closed to passengers on 13 June 1960, and to goods on 18 May 1964; the last but one to close on the Preston to Lancaster section of the West Coast Main Line, though the line itself continues.
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Within an hour or so of Bay Horse: Trough of Bowland (13 km), Blackpool Pleasure Beach (27 km), Ingleton Waterfalls Trail (29 km), Ingleborough and Gaping Gill (33 km).
The nearest famous roads are Trough of Bowland, Corney Fell Road and A684 Wensleydale (Sedbergh to Leyburn).
Bay Horse is in England, United Kingdom, about 8 km from Garstang.
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famous road
Remote moorland pass through the Forest of Bowland linking Lancaster and Dunsop Bridge, following the route the Pendle witches were marched to trial in 1612. Sweeping single-carriageway bends with barely a building in sight.
13 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Iconic seaside amusement park on England's northwest coast operating since 1896 with historic and modern coasters.
27 km · about 30 min drive
waterfall
A 4.5-mile paid circular walk through wooded gorges past a chain of waterfalls including Thornton Force and Pecca Falls.
29 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
One of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, riddled with caves including Gaping Gill, whose 98m shaft could hold York Minster.
33 km · about 40 min drive
museum
Riverside museum at Backbarrow with 30,000 exhibits including 140 classic vehicles and a dedicated exhibition on the Campbells' Bluebird land and water speed record machines.
35 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Magnificent Victorian railway viaduct with 24 arches striding across the bleak moorland of the Yorkshire Dales, an engineering marvel of the 1870s.
38 km · about 45 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The highest point in Yorkshire at 736 m, forming the long whaleback ridge above Ribblehead Viaduct.
38 km · about 45 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The most distinctive of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, a 694 m stepped ridge above Horton in Ribblesdale.
40 km · about 45 min drive
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