Carnforth, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire, on the Furness, L. & N.W., and Midland railways, 6 miles NNE of Lancaster, with an important junction railway station and a head post office. Acreage, 1459; population, 2680. The living is a perpetual curacy attached to Warton, in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels; also extensive gravel pits. A subterranean brook bursts up here after having run 2 miles under ground from a limestone cavern at Dunald-mill-hole. There are large hematite ironworks.
