Welcome to Lindal & Marton

This website is a mine of information about the villages of Lindal-in-Furness and Marton in South Cumbria.

The two villages share a parish council, church, village hall, playgroup, cricket club, bowling club, pubs, an active residents' association, and an "outstanding" primary school.

The community is centrally located in the Furness area, and has good transport links to shops, work, education, and leisure facilities at Dalton, Barrow, Ulverston, Kendal, and Lancaster.

Please send us local news items, announcements, event details, business advertising, stories, photos, etc for publication.

What's on?... see our Calendar.

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Visit the LAMPS School Website school.lindal-in-furness.co.uk

Lindal & Marton Primary School (LAMPS)

Visit the official LAMPS website for school news, results, art, photos, and essential information for parents. Help the PTA raise funds by visiting the online shop.

Parish Paths

At the Parish Council meeting on 4th February 2010 there will be a discussion on parish paths. Funding may be available to help with footpath improvement projects. If you have any ideas concerning this, please come along to the meeting. Leaflets are available as follows:

1 Parish Paths Initiative overview.
2 Parish Paths Initiative workshop.
3 Parish Paths Initiative newsletter.

Neighbourhood Policing Newsletter January 2010

PC Karen Harris and PCSO Louise Perry have published their January newsletter. Following the burglaries in Lindal and Marton before Christmas, 3 people have been charged with those 3 burglaries.

Click on the PDF icon to read the newsletter:

Lake District Farmers

Lake District Farmers (LDF) is a well known supplier of locally sourced quality Beef, Veal, Lamb & Mutton, who are successfully supplying some of the leading restaurants in the UK.

The LDF consortium is made up of up to 50 Lake District Farmers who produce the best Herdwick Lamb, Herdwick Mutton, Native Breed Beef, and Naturally raised Pink Veal. This month they are also supplying Turkey & Free Range Chicken.

Having already built up an enviable customer base from their Lindal offices, including some of the finest restaurants in the UK such as Gordon Ramsay @ Claridges, Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume and Richard Branson’s Babylon @ The Roof Gardens, to name but a few, the Directors, Uncle and Nephew team, Steve Winward and Dan Austin put their success down to quality traditional farming and an excellent customer service. They offer their wholesale meat produce to independent Butchers, Hotels and Restaurants throughout the UK.

Dan Austin, Sales Director, comments “We are so confident in our Farmers and the quality they produce, that we truly believe our products are probably the best in the Country”.

“But don’t just take our word for it. Ask any discerning Chef who has cooked our meats, and I’m sure they’ll agree. We are currently supplying our products into numerous Michelin Star Restaurants”.

LDF adhere to the highest possible food hygiene standards, and as such have already achieved BRC Global Food Standard accreditation, the standard required by all Leading Supermarkets. This means that customers can be assured of exceptionally high hygiene standards with all LDF products.

As well as suppling some of the finest restaurants in the UK, this summer LDF provided steaks for the film set of Robin Hood where the entire cast, including Hollywood Legend Russell Crowe, enjoyed a sumptuous barbeque. More recently LDF supplied some naturally raised Pink Veal to BBC’s Saturday Morning Kitchen, where it was expertly cooked by leading Chef Michel Roux Jnr.

Stuart Klosinski, Industrial Development Manager, Furness Enterprise, adds: “This is a great high end food production company based in one of Cumbria’s most attractive villages. Dan and Steve started the Company in May 2009, and secured the jobs of Nine local Employees who had recently been made redundant. We are currently helping LDF with their expansion plans for the future and identifying the resources to achieve their aim”.

If you would like further information or to sample the fantastic tastes of the Lake District for your menu, please contact Dan on: 01229 588299 or email: sales@lakedistrictfarmers.co.uk

Lindal Toddler & Playgroup

Lindal Toddler and Playgroup is run at the Buccleuch Hall on a sessional basis by a fantastic team of welcoming and dedicated staff. The group also offers Rising 5’s sessions (Mon and Fri pm) for children in their pre-school year. These sessions are held up at LAMPS and allow the children to become familiar with the school building before the momentous move up to ‘big school’.

At a recent Committee Meeting we discussed approaching Aspects and our Community website to shamelessly advertise ourselves and to have the opportunity to write a little piece letting you know what the pre school children of the village do.

The autumn term is a busy time for Toddlers and Playgroup as it is up at school. The children are invited to attend the Harvest festival and Crib Service Celebrations at St. Peter’s Church, there are the preparations for Christmas and several trips and visits planned. The children of Playgroup put on their own nativity play and Rising 5’s children are invited to watch the LAMPS Christmas Production. The children also have the Halloween Party, Christmas party and trips to the Dock Museum, Candle Factory and Sea Wood to look forward to. Nearer Christmas the Playgroup children also have the chance to go on the Santa Express at Lakeside and Haverthwaite railway. As a parent/carer you are invited to help out on these trips and its always great fun to see your little ones so engaged, happy and active.

If you would like any info on Toddlers, Playgroup and Rising 5’s please contact Maria Brown on 01229 466651 or e-mail lindalplaygroup@hotmail.co.uk. See the Playgroup web page for more information, including recent Ofsted reports.

DARE Community Dance Classes

DARE Dance have announced their programme of weekly dance classes for Autumn 2009, taking place in the Buccleuch Hall on Fridays starting on 18th September. There is a range of classes to cover all ages from 18 months to adult.

DARE is a DANCE initiative for the Borough of Barrow in Furness working in partnership with Arts Council England, Cumbria County Council and Barrow Borough Council.

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Parish Council minutes

Lindal & Marton is one of three Parish Councils in Barrow Borough. Parish Council meetings normally take place in the Buccleuch Hall on the first Thursday of each month, as shown in the Calendar, and are open to the public. The Parish Council Clerk issues an Agenda a few days before each meeting, and issues Minutes a few days afterwards. Agendas and full Minutes are published on our Downloads page.

Furness Wind Farm proposal

A site at Standish Cote near Marton has been proposed by Infinergy Limited for a controversial wind farm scheme. The site is on agricultural land immediately to the west of Harlock Reservoir, and may be extended to include the replacement of existing turbines at Harlock Hill.

Further details can be found on the Infinergy Furness Wind Farm website.

Help find old photos of Lindal & Marton

Do you have any old photos of Lindal and Marton, school groups, family activities, sports, industry, farming, etc that could be scanned and published on this website?

Please contact Neil Fleming by phone to discuss, or e-mail neil@lindal-in-furness.co.uk.

Lindal & Marton map images produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Images reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.