Places to explore near Lancaster

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

1.2 km E

Hilltop Victorian park above Lancaster with woodland walks, a butterfly house and the domed Ashton Memorial.

1.2 km E

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

2.5 km N

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

2.7 km E

Great looping bend of the River Lune near Caton, a beauty spot painted by Turner and a riverside picnic stop.

5.1 km NE

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

5.1 km NW · Lancashire

Cheery bronze of comedian Eric Morecambe in his 'Bring Me Sunshine' pose on the town's seafront.

5.2 km NW

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

5.6 km NW

Former stone harbour arm on Morecambe's front, now a public promenade dotted with bird sculptures and games.

5.9 km NW

Old Morecambe Bay village of narrow lanes and nettle beer, above the rock-cut graves and ruined St Patrick's Chapel.

6.1 km W · Lancashire

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

6.7 km W

Tiny former port cut off by the tide twice a day, reached only across the sands of the Lune estuary.

8.1 km SW · Lancashire

Little limestone hills, flowery woods and the huge tidal sands of Morecambe Bay, all packed into a small friendly corner

8.4 km N

Atmospheric limestone headland with an old copper-smelting chimney, looking across Morecambe Bay from Silverdale.

12 km N

Reedbed reserve of bitterns and marsh harriers.

12.4 km N

Limestone-and-woodland village on the Lancashire edge of the Arnside & Silverdale AONB, ringed by coast and reserves.

13.6 km N · Lancashire

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

16.7 km N

A stone shelter of 1846 on the limestone top above Grange, with a rooftop viewing platform sweeping from the Langdales to Morecambe Bay.

19.4 km NW

Handsome village around its priory church and a small racecourse, famous for sticky toffee pudding and the village square's food shops.

19.5 km NW · Cumbria

Cavendish family estate near Cark with 25 acres of woodland and formal gardens, home to the ancient Great Holker Lime and a summer sunken garden.

19.7 km NW

Simon Rogan's farm-to-table flagship in a Cartmel village on the edge of the Lake District.

19.9 km NW

Surviving priory church with a distinctive diagonal tower.

19.9 km NW

One of Britain's smallest and most scenic National Hunt courses, set in meadows beside the priory village.

20 km NW

Dramatic high pass winding through the empty heart of the Bowland fells, likened to a slice of the Alps.

21.3 km SE

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

21.6 km NE

Grey-stone village by the Hodder in moorland Bowland, with a riverside green, old grammar school and the Hark to Bounty inn.

23.2 km E · Lancashire

Elizabethan hall with world-famous topiary garden.

23.6 km N

Long island off Barrow with Irish Sea beaches and nature reserves at both ends, known for eiders, gulls and natterjack toads

24 km W

Small island with the ruins of Piel Castle, built by Furness Abbey's monks, and the Ship Inn, whose landlord is crowned King

24.3 km W

A four-and-a-half-mile circuit of the Twiss and Doe gorges — Thornton Force, Pecca Falls and half a dozen more on England's most famous waterfall walk.

24.6 km NE

A small heated pool in the Yorkshire Dales, dug by Ingleton volunteers in the 1930s and still run by them.

24.8 km NE

Waterfall village at the foot of Ingleborough and Whernside, home to the famous falls trail and White Scar Cave.

24.8 km NE · North Yorkshire

The lock-free coastal canal of the north-west, 41 miles on one level from Preston to Tewitfield with the sea often in view.

0.3 km S · Lancashire & Cumbria

Great priory church of St Mary on the castle hill, surviving the Dissolution as Lancaster's parish church.

0.5 km NW

Whitewashed riverside inn on the Lune estuary at Conder Green, on the cycle path to Glasson.

5.8 km S

Quayside smokehouse at Glasson Dock with a shop crammed with smoked fish, meat, cheese and game.

6.3 km SW

One of the oldest churches in the North West, above Morecambe Bay near the rock-cut graves and ruined chapel.

6.6 km W

A National Trust place in Lancashire.

6.7 km W

Award-winning country dining inn on lanes south of Lancaster, big on local produce.

8.7 km S