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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 5 miles south of Whitehaven.
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 Whitehaven.
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 Whitehaven.
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 Whitehaven.
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 3 miles south of Whitehaven.
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 20 miles southeast
of Whitehaven.
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