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Photo: Paul Glading

Roger Cartwright

Creating the Arnside and Silverdale AONB

Views from around the area

These pictures, supplied by Roger Cartwright show how the area looked before it was designated as an AONB, or in its early years.

Kent Estuary, 1967: Possible road bridge position.

Brackenthwaite Road, 1967 — Recent conspicuous housing at Slackhead in the background

Silverdale Moss from Arnside Knott, 1968

Documents relating to the planning of the AONB

Letter from James Drake, Lancashire County Surveyor, re AONB, 1970

Morecambe Bay Economic Study Landscape Map

Memo from David Tattersal re AONB, March 1969

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