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| • | Arkholme is a community of 350. The village hall acts as a focal point and provides a number of essential facilities, reconciling the requirements of a sports facility, a venue for village social events and flexible space for a range of private functions, from weddings to barn dances.
The Carnforth Connect transport project connects with the new Village Hall. Bus services from Arkholme are timed to connect with trains at Carnforth and Wennington railway stations and new 'intelligent' bus stops provide public transport information in real-time. Arkholme was served by the Furness and Midland Joint Railway.[HTTP ]
The new centre in Arkholme is just one element in the Enterprising Rural Communities programme which aims to ease the problems of living and working in the countryside such as lack of facilities, poor public transport links and lack of access to services such as a local doctor or job centre.
The church of St John the Baptist sits picturesquely at the end of a village street, next to a motte. It is one of a group of Lune Valley churches to be built next to a Norman earthwork - with Whittington and Melling - which may be an indication that a church has occupied the site for longer than is now apparent. The motte is well preserved in the grounds of the church on Chapel Hill, which slopes down to the river at the south of the village. It is 30m in diameter at its base and 14m wide at the top. The church was probably built inside the bailey.
Until 1866 Arkholme was a chapel of ease of Melling church. A church is known to have existed at Arkholme around 1450: a time when the village was known as Erwhum. Today St John's consists of a nave and chancel in one with no separating arch, a south aisle that stops at the chancel, a south porch, a north vestry, and a bellcote over the west end. It holds a very old bell, 21 inches in diameter, which probably dates from the C14. Along its lower edge is the inscription:IHS:NAZARENUS:REX:JUDEORUM:FILI DEIThe exterior of the building is of roughly cut stone, with a modest stepped buttress on the south aisle, and also on the west and south edges of the west wall. The windows, with one exception, are C19 insertions.A stone plaque can be seen noting: "This Chappel of Arkholme Was Repaired in the Year 1788, John Willson Curret, John Smith Chappel Warden." The church
Source: [wikipedia: arkholme, lancashire]
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