heritage of kirkby lonsdale...

The centre is a pleasing mix of elegant 18th-century buildings and stone cottages huddled around cobbled courtyards and narrow alleyways with evocative names such as Salt Pie Lane and Jingling Lane.

St Mary's Church

The oldest parts of this Norman church are three columns in the nave, of which two are carved with unusual diamond motif patterns. The plain-looking font was rescued from a neighbouring farm where it had fulfilled a secular function as a cattle trough. Outside in the churchyard is a memorial to five maids who were ‘hurried into eternity' after a disastrous fire at the Rose and Crown Hotel (now the Royal Hotel) in 1820.  more details

Devil's Bridge

This medieval bridge spanning the River Lune on three graceful arches is superbly crafted with ribbed and fluted masonry.