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Crook O' Lune

River Lune

The Crook O'Lune picnic site is situated at a popular beauty spot on a horse shoe bend in the River Lune to the North of Lancaster. Many pleasant walks are available alongside the wooded river banks and venturing off into the surrounding countryside. For longer walks the Lune Millennium Cycleway which also forms part of the Lancashire Cycleway follows a former railway line and connects this site to Lancaster and Bull Beck picnic site to the North.

THE LUNE MILLENNIUM CYCLEWAY
The route of this footpath/cycleway starts at Glasson, through Lancaster before heading up stream on the River Lune towards Caton. The section between Lancaster and the Bull Beck Picnic Site follows the banks of the River Lune and is suitable for disabled users. It follows the route of the former Lancaster to Wennington railway and is approximately six miles in length. Car parking facilities are available at Lancaster, Ladies Walk, Denny Beck, Crook O'Lune, Bull Beck, Conder Green and Glason Dock. A leaflet on the cycleway is available from Tourist Information Centres Lancaster Tel:01524 32878 Morecambe Tel: 01524 582808.

Map showing route of Coastal Way

Map showing location of Crook O'Lune

This map is based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings.
Lancashire County Council 100023320 2004.

DISABLED FACILITIES
The main car parking area consists to two car parks, the rear one having a height restriction of 2.16m. In the front car park there are 3 marked bays for orange badge holders. These bays are within 30m of the toilet block and refreshment trailer. The approach to these facilities is smooth and level, the immediate surroundings are paved to give good surface change definition for partially sighted visitors. The entrance to the toilets has a 10cm step in the door way but there is a wheel chair accessible toilet operating on a Radar key system. Within 5m of the designated bays there is a picnic table adapted for wheelchair access offering scenic views up the Lune Valley towards Hornby. A tarmac ramp, 2m wide descends gently from along side the orange badge bays opposite the toilet block to the old railway bridge over the Lune and continues to the waters edge a distance of 100m to the river bank and 180m to the centre of the bridge. Following the tarmac path over the Lune towards Caton leads to a ramp on the left gives access to the main picnic area by the Lune. Two gates and a kissing gate have to be passed and a road crossing made. The gates are 1.4m wide and the kissing gate opens to 75cm. The road crossing point has dropped kerbs. This picnic site also has a specially constructed table for wheelchair access and the total distance from the car park is 400m. There is limited roadside parking closer to this area, 50m from the gate. The ramp from the main car park leads, as mentioned, to the Lune Millennium Cycleway, a footpath and cycleway from Caton through Lancaster to Glason Dock following the old railway line. This route is currently being improved with a tarmac surface and illumination as part of Lancaster's Millennium celebration.

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