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Photo of St Peter's Church, Heysham, a church in Lancashire, north west England.

© Brian Deegan / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

St Peter's Church, Heysham

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One of the oldest churches in the North West, St Peter’s stands above Morecambe Bay at Heysham, founded perhaps in the seventh or eighth century. Inside is a superb tenth-century Viking hogback stone, carved with wolves, deer and figures. Just up the headland are the ruined chapel and the famous rock-cut graves. A gorgeous spot, and open to visitors; Heysham Port station is under 2km to the south-west.

More places to visit near St Peter's Church, Heysham

Photo of St Patrick's Chapel & Rock-cut Graves, a ruined chapel near Heysham, Lancashire, north west England.Highlight

St Patrick's Chapel & Rock-cut Graves

Chapel near Heysham

Ruined Anglo-Saxon chapel and body-shaped graves cut into the headland rock above Morecambe Bay at Heysham.

0.1 km W

Photo of Morecambe, a village in Lancashire, north west England.Iconic

Morecambe

Village

Faded-then-reviving bay resort with a five-mile prom, the Eric Morecambe statue and the art-deco Midland Hotel.

3.3 km NE · Lancashire

Photo of Midland Hotel, a landmark near Morecambe, Lancashire, north west England.Highlight

Midland Hotel

Landmark near Morecambe

Streamlined 1933 art-deco hotel on Morecambe's prom, with Eric Gill reliefs and a curved seafront frontage.

3.3 km NE

Photo of Lune Aqueduct, a landmark near Lancaster, Lancashire, north west England.Highlight

Lune Aqueduct

Landmark near Lancaster

Rennie's great five-arch aqueduct striding the River Lune north of Lancaster, the finest structure on the whole Lancaster Canal.

7.7 km E

Photo of Ashton Memorial, a folly near Lancaster, Lancashire, north west England.Highlight

Ashton Memorial

Folly near Lancaster

Grand Edwardian domed folly rising over Williamson Park in Lancaster, dubbed the 'Taj Mahal of the North'.

7.8 km E

Photo of the Forest of Bowland, a National Landscape in England.Iconic

Forest of Bowland

National Landscape near Slaidburn

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

9.3 km E