Visit Gleaston Places

Welcome to Visit Gleaston Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gleaston

  

Gleaston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gleaston

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Gleaston etymology

The Domesday Book of 1086 records Gleaston as Glassertun. Joan Lee suggests that this could mean ‘farm by a stream’ from the Brythonic glas and Old Norse tun. The name means ‘green hill farm’ from Old Norse words glas – haugr – tun.

You can visit Gleaston places with Walkfo Gleaston to hear history at Gleaston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gleaston has 21 places to visit in our interactive Gleaston map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Gleaston, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Gleaston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gleaston & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 21 audio facts unique to Gleaston places in an interactive Gleaston map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Gleaston Places Map
21 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Gleaston historic spots	Gleaston tourist destinations	Gleaston plaques	Gleaston geographic features
Walkfo Gleaston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gleaston

  

Best Gleaston places to visit

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Gleaston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gleaston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gleaston’s information audio spots:

St Mary and St Michael’s Church, Great Urswick St Mary and St Michael’s Church is in the village of Great Urswick, Cumbria. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness and the diocese of Carlisle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building.

Urswick Urswick is a civil parish that includes the villages of Great Urswick and Little Urswick. It is located in the Furness area of Cumbria, England. The villages are situated to the south-west of the town of Ulverston.

Roosecote Power Station Roosecote Power Station was a gas-fired, originally coal-fired power station, situated in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, North West England. It was mothballed in 2012 after a proposed biomass power station was cancelled. The plant was demolished between 2014 and 2015.

Yarlside Iron Mines tramway The Yarlside Iron Mines tramway or Parkhouse Mineral Railway was built as a one-mile (1.6 km) long innovative railway from the Parkhouse Haematite Ore Mines to the Roose railway station on the Furness Railway. Similar to a monorail, it had stabilising side rollers, invented and patented by John Barraclough Fell.

Dalton Town with Newton Dalton Town with Newton is a civil parish in the Barrow-in-Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 7807. The parish touches Aldingham, Askam and Ireleth, Lindal and Marton and Urswick.

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