hello chappies.
ok....as promised please find directions to leighton moss below. its relatively simple to find from the motorway. if you are coming from far away and are camping either saturday or friday and saturday, if you let me know where abouts you're staying (with a postcode if poss) i'll post up some extra directions for you next week. for those of you who want to stay in a hotel there is a holiday inn and a premier travel lodge one motorway junction south of the leighton moss junction, and there are loads of b and b's about in lancaster and morecambe and carnforth area. links for these also below.
i suggest we meet at 10am in the car park, thus giving me time to drag myself upright into awakeness
. we'll decide on the day which bits you want to go see, as its a pretty big reserve and a couple of bits are further afield than others. if you need to pm me and i'll send you a mobile number for you to ring if you get stuck somehwere unfamiliar! (i do that all the time when going somewhere new!) if people can let me know in the next week or so if they are coming that'd be handy
sarah
so
directions:
come off the m6 at junction 35 and follow signs for carnforth. when you get to the traffic lights (its a big crossroads) turn right down the hill past the big second hand book store and the train station. follow that road until you get to warton and then turn left following signs for silverdale. follow that road until you get to a nasty t-junction where you need to turn right again. leighton moss will be sign posted from here. turn right again at the sign for leighton moss and turn left into the carpark.
by
train:
take the train to silverdale (relatively regular from lancaster, check out
www.thetrainline.com for train times). when you get off the train turn left out of the station, follow the road round to the left and then turn through the kissing gate into the car park where other wabbers will be (well, hopefully
)
places to stay (camping):
Carnforth Campsites and and Caravan Parks
this link will take you to a hugely comprehensive list of campsites - be careful though some of them don't house tents, some don't house caravans and some of them lack showers!
places to stay (non camping):
(both the holiday inn and premier travel lodge are literally just off junction 34)
holiday inn lancaster
Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts | United Kingdom
premier travel inn
Lancaster | Hotel information - Premier Travel Inn
random b and b's and hotels within a 30minute radius...
Lancaster Hotels - Lancaster, UK
its worth noting with this link that fleetwood etc are not actually that close...best off staying either in lancaster, morecambe, bare, carnforth, silverdale, warton, or at a push, milnthorpe or arnside.