English Heritage sites near Overton Parish
WARTON OLD RECTORY
12 miles from Overton Parish
A rare survival of a large 14th-century stone house with great hall and chambers. It served as a residence and courthouse for the wealthy and powerful rectors of Warton.
PIEL CASTLE
12 miles from Overton Parish
The impressive ruins of a 14th-century castle with a massive keep, inner and outer baileys, and towered curtain walls still standing.
BOW BRIDGE
15 miles from Overton Parish
This narrow 15th-century stone bridge across Mill Beck carried an old packhorse route to nearby Furness Abbey.
FURNESS ABBEY
16 miles from Overton Parish
The remains of an abbey founded by Stephen, later King of England, including much of the east end and west tower of the church, ornately decorated chapter house and cloister buildings.
STOTT PARK BOBBIN MILL
21 miles from Overton Parish
In the Lake District in Cumbria, this extensive working mill was begun in 1835 to produce the wooden bobbins vital to the Lancashire spinning and weaving industries.
WHALLEY ABBEY GATEHOUSE
23 miles from Overton Parish
The 14th century gatehouse of the nearby Cistercian abbey, which was the second wealthiest monastery in Lancashire. The first floor of the gatehouse was probably a chapel.
Churches in Overton Parish
St Helen
Church Grove
Overton
Lancaster
01524 858234
http://www.overtonsthelens.church
12th Century - with Norman Wall, Musician's Gallery.
We are a mixed rural and fishing parish, in the Deanery of Lancaster. The parish is north of the River Lune estuary and has an estimated population of nearly two thousand. The boundaries include Overton, Middleton, Heaton with Oxcliffe and the fishing hamlet of Sunderland Point.
Views from the Church are breathtakingly beautiful, overlooking the estuary, towards Glasson Dock and Lancaster.
PLEASE NOTE - Revd Lorraine Moffatt - Curate in Charge of Overton St Helens.
Revd Moffatt will be part-time.
Pubs in Overton Parish
Globe
Just one end of the pub open - the part that was the vault 50 years ago.
Ship
Escaped from tie and restored in 2016. Stripped back to Victorian basics (bar and fittings, decorative floor tiles), but not to bare stonework or floorboards. Traces of twentieth-century alterations have almost vanished except for the absen...