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The ancient market town of Dalton-in-Furness was once the most important town on the Furness Peninsula, with a rich history that predates medieval times. This pretty town lies in a narrow valley inland from the coast and just north-east of Barrow-in-Furness. Dalton’s charming Market Street is renowned for its traditional public houses ...
The attractive town of Dalton-in-Furness was once the administrative capital of the Furness region. It has a history going back to the Saxon period and was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Daltune. The town stands on a hilltop site well inland from the sea. During the medieval period, the town's inland location made it relatively safe ...
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- Rose C. Dalton-in-Furness, UK5 contributions. Peace for your soul. Roanhead Beach is a beautiful, quiet, wild, unspoilt stretch of sand dunes and pebbles. It is beside Sandscale Haws, an SSSI site owned by the National Trust and home to many rare species of plants and animals, including the famous Natterjack toad.
- Owenthomas. Berthoud, CO1,009 contributions. Not open, but worth a walk past. When Furness Abbey was raided by the Scots, the monks came to this castle for safety.
- mslancashire503927. Burnley, UK2,947 contributions. Lovely welcome. Called here for a visit whilst in Dalton. As we were walking around the gardens the lady vicar came out to greet us and invite us in for a coffee with a group of others who looked like they were having a little get together.
- elegancebyjayne34. Dalton-in-Furness, UK48 contributions. Mark Cumberland retro. It’s always nice for pubs to have local acts singing. Mark is an excellent singing that goes above and beyond.
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DALTON-IN-FURNESS, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district in Ulverstone district, Lancashire. The town stands on the Furness railway, 1½ mile N of Furness abbey, and 5 SW of Ulverstone; is an ancient place, long the capital of Lower-Furness; consists of one street, spacious, antique, picturesque, and improved; and has a head post office ...
Dalton-in-Furness is located in the county of Cumbria, North West England, four miles north-east of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, 24 miles north of the major town of Blackpool, 124 miles south of Edinburgh, 185 miles north of Cardiff, and 223 miles north-west of London. Dalton-in-Furness was historically in the county of Lancashire.
The 14th-century tower known as Dalton Castle was formerly the manorial courthouse of Furness Abbey. Here the abbott exercised his right to hold manorial courts and administer justice within the lordship of Furness, as authorised by the abbey's foundation charter of 1127.
