Bay Horse
 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification.(November 2017) |
| Bay Horse | |
|---|---|
 The Bay Horse Inn | |
  Bay Horse Location in the City of Lancaster district  Bay Horse Location withinLancashire | |
| OS grid reference | SD492530 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LANCASTER |
| Postcode district | LA2 |
| Dialling code | 01524 |
| Police | Lancashire |
| Fire | Lancashire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Bay Horseis a sparsely populated hamlet in the English county ofLancashire.It lies betweenLancasterandPrestonto the north and south respectively.
Geography
[edit]To the west is theIrish Sea,and to the east is theForest of Bowland,partly owned by theRoyal Family.[1]
History
[edit]In August 1848, a north-boundLondon & North Western Railwaytrain fromLondon EustontoGlasgowcollided with a small local train atBay Horse station,killing 1, injuring 20.
Newland Hall is a country house and the former seat of the Owtrams, a local mill-owning family.[2]Colonel Cary Owtram OBE (1900-1993) gained prominence after the publication of a secret diary that he kept during his three-and-a-half-year stint as a prisoner of war in Thailand during World War II.[3]
Community
[edit]The local area is mostly farmland, the nearest large urban area beingLancaster,approximately five miles away. Approximately 100 inhabitants reside in Bay Horse. The main road through Bay Horse is Whams Lane, which is used by motorcyclists on their way to Devils Bridge atKirkby Lonsdale.
The Hamlet is served by the nearbySt John's Church (CofE)inEllel,which acts as its parish church.
Travel
[edit]TheLancaster Canalbisects the village, and theM6 motorwayruns through the village.
Bay Horse railway stationclosed due to low usage in the 1960s.
Pub
[edit]There are no amenities in the hamlet, apart from a single pub, the Bay Horse Inn, after which the village is named. Even though the boundaries of Bay Horse are uncertain, there is a riding school on the outskirts called Bay Horse School.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Pukas, Anna (18 September 2013)."ROYAL RETREATS REVEALED: Where the Queen, Kate and William go to get away from it all..."Express.co.uk.Retrieved12 November2017.
- ^"How a small north Lancashire village has links to a Thai POW camp".Great British Life.13 June 2018.
- ^Owtram, Cary (31 May 2017).1000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant.Casemate Publishers.ISBN9781473897823.
- ^"Bay Horse School Of Equitation, Horse Riding School in Preston, Lancashire".Riding-schools.com.Retrieved12 November2017.
External links
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