Ashurst's Beacon, Ashurst Hill - Dalton, Lancashire | Drone Footage
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- This beacon tower was built in 1798 by Sir William Ashurst. It was built as a watch tower to warn of a French invasion in the lead up to the Napoleonic War. It is said to be on the site of an earlier beacon that once formed part of a relay series of beacons. They stretched from Everton Brow above Liverpool to Lancaster Castle. They were in place (though unused) during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585.
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Lovely area, lovely building, but would love to see film of the INSIDE!
You got that right. Me too, I wonder what’s inside
@@foresteroutdoors Thanks for replying! Are you NOT allowed to film it inside? If you are - why not do another film to include the INTERIOR, because I'm sure there must be people who are curious to know, as well!
This building is exactly the sort of building that would be featured on one of George Clarke's programmes, where people would renovate it - and use it as their unique designer home!
There are numerous "follies," which didn't actually serve any purpose, but are wasted, when they COULD be made into lovely homes! It reminds me of an iconic T.V. film, about the A3 motorway - by presenter TOM FORT. He drive a characterful Morris Minor Traveller estate, with wood trim on the sides, like some estate cars had in those days. HE stopped by a folly, and COULD go up inside it, and show viewers the view from the top! THEN (on this "characterful "- to say the LEAST , programme), he stopped along the A3, and gave a lift to an eccentric man, who had just picked up a "freshly-knocked down" pheasant, and asked to put it in the back of Tom Ford's estate car, to take home for his tea -as roadkill!
@@nygelmiller5293 unfortunately it’s closed to the public, maybe one day
Hoed monument in ulverston is better!
The cafe at the bottom makes a mean pig sandwich, “streight outa the field” 🐖🥪
I’ll have a look into that one 👍🏻