Motorhome access to Furness Abbey
Help please! We are booked in to visit Furness Abbey in Cumbria near Barrow but we will be in our new motorhome, 6.9m long,2.32m wide and 2.9m high. I can't find information as to where we can park to access. Looking on Google maps - looks tricky! Has anyone any advice/experience to help?
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Haven't you contacted English Heritage to ask? Surely that will be the best source of information.
According to EH website and google street view there is parking at the site . EH also states that buses go to within three quarters of a mile of the site so presumably if a bus can get there so can you in your van (unless it is a small bus). I would have thought if you phone the site you would be able to speak to someone who knows the locality.
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I guess the OP's sussed it in the last 3 months.
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Whoops! I hadn't noticed the date of the opening post, just that it was at the top of this section.
I do sometimes wonder why people ask questions on this and other forums when the definitive answer would be available from the relevant organisation!
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Whilst you are likely to get a more comprehensive answer from someone who has visited the attraction in a similar vehicle I think these places of interest have quite a handle on the suitability for parking a motorhome. Twice I have emailed NT properties and both times I have had informative answers about their motorhome parking even to the point of where the best place to park is. I suspect it's a question that is often asked.
David
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If you phone EH/NT etc.... sites direct, the custodians are usually very helpful. A quick look on Google Earth showed me two car parks. I didn’t respond as it’s a very old post.
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Yes, there is a large car park adjacent to the Abbey entrance and no height barrier. Although by the date of this post I guess that you will already found that out. If not Follow the directions in the EH book or website, and ignored Road Closed notices. From the roundabout onto Abbey Road coming from the A590 take the second road on the left, Rating Lane, and the first on your left, just past the farm. Turn left again opposite the Abbey and the car park is on your right after a couple of hundred yards. Hope this helps. There is a lot of work going on both on the Abbey itself and on Abbey Road where there are traffic lights.
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Oops just noticed the OP is from August. Still the information above might be of some help to others.
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English Heritage can be a bit strange about motorhome parking. Following an issue at a particular property we visited with our motorhome, I contacted EH direct to ask about parking at the sites where they controlled the parking (which isnt the case for all their sites, even if there is a carpark). The web site references for individual properties are not helpful. They told me that I would have to contact any site that I wished to visit, and seemed particularly uninterrested in any issues that MHs might have.
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I think that David Klyne's post just below yours is particularly relevant.
I hope you noticed that I suggested contacting the property as the staff there would know the locality. This idea seems to have been borne out by David's experience at other properties.
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As an aside to this discussion but related. I subscribe to MMM (Motorhome Monthly Magazine) I enjoy the various articles submitted by readers. However one of the things they are not so good at is informing their readers how easy it was to park at the places they visited in their motorhomes!
David
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I don't think that anyone replying here has been "non too polite". Many have answered the question, albeit much too late for the OP. However, it seems that the answers are not to your liking. That does not mean that they are impolite.
Sometimes people do ask questions to which contributors here cannot know or give a definite answer but who recognise that someone more knowledgeable or in a better position is likely to be able to provide the "help" required, so they recommend contacting such a person. What is wrong with that?
What is wrong with recommending particular maps or, for instance, particular guide books or even the CAMC Sites Guide directions to sites? All of these have been done in the past when questions have been asked about directions or what attractions/places of interest there are in particular areas - or even countries. In doing so people have taken time to post responses about things they have found helpful pertaining to the initial request.
(Regarding your point about ignoring a question, didn't we all do that initially?)
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The other way of looking at such posts ,comes if no one gives any answers to the OP because , as this late arrival , ,they then think that was a waste of posting, and it is only when other posters pick up and advise where to contact , that a poster who may (if any) had been there may also advise
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Eh?
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What I think that JVB's trying to say is that because it was an old post, date wise, then some that read it decided that it was too late to give a meaningful response. It was only when others, perhaps not noticing that It was an old post, responded by making suggestions on who to possibly contact to find out the best route that a further reply came from someone who had actually visited the place and could give a first hand report, and that had happened in the past with other requests for help with direction, parking etc.
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The problem here is that this and other sites are not open every day so it is often difficult to contact them.
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I've been taking lessons in Double Dutch, WN, which certainly helps.
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