Lindal in Furness is an ancient settlement recorded in 1220 as a grange of Furness Abbey, located six miles away.
Church Farm dated 1635 and the church of St Peter's 1875. Lindal Moor Farm which overlooks the green originated in the 1600s.
The area was once a maze of railway tracks and open cast pits and shafts, when iron-ore was mined in the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
The village extends both sides of the busy A590 Barrow in Furness road. On one side is a long row of three storey 'cottages' built originally for railway workers and miners. Note the 'Railway Inn' nearby. Heavy subsidence has been known to take place here and locals still talk of the day at the end of the 19th century when an engine disappeared into a 200 feet hole...never to be seen again.
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