Hyning Scout Wood

Hyning Scout Wood is a wood between Yealand Conyers and Warton in Lancashire. Its features include limestone pavement and coppicing for charcoal. The trees include beech, larch, sweet chestnut and Scots pine. Its woodland plants include bluebells, dog's mercury, hart's-tongue fern and Solomon's Seal. Roe deer and both grey and red squirrels are found there. There are the restored remains of a lime kiln. The wood's bluebells are notable. It is managed by the Woodland Trust; is part of the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is recognised as a Biological Heritage Site by the county. The wood contains a memorial plaque for anthropologist Mary Gluckman.

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St Mary's Church, Yealand Conyers

St Mary's Church is in the village of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, England. It is an active Roman Catholic church in the diocese of Lancaster, and is linked with the churches of St Mary of the Angels, Bolton-le-Sands, and Our Lady of Lourdes, Carnforth. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It stands at the south end of the village.

Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning

The Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning is a community of Bernardine Cistercians in Warton, Lancaster, England, formerly known as St Bernard's Priory and informally called Hyning Monastery. Its grade II listed house has also been known as The Hyning, Hyning Priory, Hyning Hall and Hyning House. It is in the north of the parish of Warton, east of the road to Yealand Conyers.

Three Brothers, Lancashire

The Three Brothers (grid reference SD494734) are three erratic boulders or standing stone hilltop altars located in the hills above Morecambe Bay, immediately north of Warton Crag. The site was surveyed by Alexander Thom. It is accessible along a footpath through woodland.

Warton, Lancaster

Warton is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. The village is close to the boundary with Cumbria, and approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Carnforth, which was originally part of the parish of Warton. The village had a population of 2,315 at the 2001 census, and 2,360 at the 2011 census. The parish covers an area in excess of 11,000 acres (45 km2) and is predominantly rural. The earliest record of the Warton is in the Domesday Book of 1086. The village contains Warton Old Rectory, the ruins of a late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century clergyman's house. The parish church, dedicated to Saint Oswald, has links to the Washington family, the ancestors of the first president of the United States of America, George Washington.