Barnacre-with-Bonds

Barnacre-with-Bonds
Barnacre-with-Bonds
Civil parish
	Barnacre-with-Bonds Shown within Wyre Borough Barnacre-with-Bonds Shown within Lancashire
	Coordinates: 53°54′31″N 2°43′28″W / 53.90861°N 2.72444°W
Country	England
Primary council	Wyre
County	Lancashire
Region	North West England
Status	Parish
Population (2011)
• Total	2,148

Barnacre-with-Bonds is a civil parish in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,751 increasing to 2,148 at the 2011 census.^[1] The parish covers an area to the south and east of Garstang, including the settlements of Bonds, Calder Vale and Bowgreave. It is mostly rural and hilly with a small population.

Amenities

In Bowgreave there is the Garstang Community Academy, formerly known as Garstang High School, and an eighteen-hole golf course, near the Best Western Hotel. The former village pub, the Kenlis Arms Hotel, a former hunting-lodge built in 1856, adjacent to the site of the former Garstang and Catterall railway station, closed in 2022.^[2]^[3]

Calder Vale, which is one of the most isolated villages in England, has only one road providing access. It lies in a deep valley of the River Calder. The 5-star self-catering Barnacre holiday cottages are located near the village.

The parish includes the Anglican All Saints Church, Barnacre, and St John the Evangelist, Calder Vale; the Catholic Church of St Mary and St Michael, Bonds; and Calder Vale Methodist Chapel. It also includes the ruins of Greenhalgh Castle.