Visitor attractions and information for
Cleator Moor
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Florence Mine Heritage Centre, Egremont, Cumbria
Tel: 01946 825 830 The last deep working Iron Ore mine in Europe.
The Centre offers a mining museum, geology & mineral room,
mock drift, shop, refreshment area and a research facility. Disabled
access is available throughout. About 4 miles south of Cleator Moor. |
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Sellafield
Visitors Centre Tel: 01946 727027 - Sellafield is probably BNFL's
most well known site, and is home to the Sellafield Visitors
Centre. About
7 miles south of Cleator Moor. |
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Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, Ravenglass,
Cumbria. Tel: 01229 717171. The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
runs for seven-miles from the coastal village of Ravenglass in
the Western Lake District to Dalegarth station and visitor centre
in Eskdale. About 13 miles
south of Cleator Moor. |
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Muncaster
Castle, On the A595 near Ravenglass Tel. 01229 717614 Muncaster
Castle has been home to the Pennington family since 1208. The
1800-acre estate contains 77 acres of woodland gardens, renowned
for their azaleas, rhododendrons, and camellias. Muncaster
is also home to the Owl Centre and World Owl Trust, with 48 species
from all over the world. About
17 miles south of Cleator Moor. |
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St Bees Head Nature Reserve - One of the largest
cliff seabird colonies on the west coast of England. Birds include
razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars, guillemots, some puffins and
the only black guillemots breeding in England. Cormorants, rock
pipits, ravens, peregrines and stonechats on the cliffs and gannets,
skuas and shearwaters offshore. You can see the Isle of Man on
a clear day. About 5 miles
west of Cleator Moor. |
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The
Hardknott Pass road, with a gradient of 1 in 3, is a steep narrow
and winding switchback road. From the west, within one mile of
leaving the pastoral valley of Eskdale, the road rises to 1291
feet. Hardknott Pass is on a minor road between the A595 on the
west coast and the A593 near Skelwith Bridge in the east. At
the top of the pass is Hardknott Roman Fort commanding views
reaching from the upper Eskdale valley to the Isle of Man. It
was the perfect site for the Romans seeking to control the area.
About 18 miles southeast
of Cleator Moor. |
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