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Guide Price£40,000

Rakes Head Lane, Slyne, Morecambe, LA4

Land size
1.79 acres

Key Features

  • Comprising a 1.79 ACRES (0.72 Hectares) ideal pony paddock
  • Perfect for Equestrian use
  • Timber Stables, Field Shelter & Pond
  • No services currently connected to the land.
  • Access which benefits from being a Public Bridleway.

Description

Comprising a 1.79 ACRES (0.72 Hectares) ideal pony paddock (Grade 3 agricultural land) located off an unmarked track (Rakes Head Lane) which benefits from being a Public Bridleway.

Please note the land is sold with the benefit of rights of access across the neighbouring paddock which is also offered for sale under separate ownership (details available upon request)

Please further note there is also a Public Footpath running past the land which links Rakes Head Lane over the railway crossing and leads To Betony Drive housing estate off Bare Lane, Morecambe (Via /// what3words: powers.gates.fact).

Directions from Slyne: Opposite The Cross Keys Inn turn down Throstle Grove come up to the crossroads and take a right turn down Hest Bank Lane, follow the road and take your first left onto Sea View Drive, immediately take a left onto The Knoll then on your right is a rough track / Public Bridleway (more suited to 4-wheel drive vehicles) turn onto the track and follow round over the canal bridge and under the railway bridge and the land is located to the south between the railway tracks.

Viewings: By prior appointment though the selling agent at any time during reasonable daylight hours by prior notification.

DESCRIPTION

Comprising a 1.79 ACRES (0.72 Hectares) ideal pony paddock (Grade 3 agricultural land) located off an unmarked track (Rakes Head Lane) which benefits from being a Public Bridleway.

Please note the land is sold with the benefit of rights of access across the neighbouring paddock which is also offered for sale under separate ownership (details available upon request)

Please further note there is also a Public Footpath running past the land which links Rakes Head Lane over the railway crossing and leads To Betony Drive housing estate off Bare Lane, Morecambe (Via /// what3words: powers.gates.fact).

Directions from Slyne: Opposite The Cross Keys Inn turn down Throstle Grove come up to the crossroads and take a right turn down Hest Bank Lane, follow the road and take your first left onto Sea View Drive, immediately take a left onto The Knoll then on your right is a rough track / Public Bridleway (more suited to 4-wheel drive vehicles) turn onto the track ...

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
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Date Posted
2026-08-25

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 138 Farmland & Pasture listings in North West England (1+ acres).

This Property£22,346 / acre
Farmland & Pasture Average (1+ acres) £8,818 / acre
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Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Water
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Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Private Rights of Way
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Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
Parking Available
Garden
Garden

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Great Wood Primary School0.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    406
    Type
    Community school
  • Slyne-with-Hest, St Luke's, Church of England Primary School0.8 milesOfsted report card · Mar 2026
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    201
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Morecambe and Heysham Torrisholme Community Primary School0.8 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    413
    Type
    Community school
  • Lancaster Road Primary School1.3 milesOfsted report card · Mar 2026
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    478
    Type
    Community school
  • St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Morecambe1.3 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    150
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Roman Catholic

Secondary

  • Morecambe Bay Academy1.1 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,045
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Our Lady's Catholic College1.9 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    981
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • Lancaster High School2.4 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    567
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Lancaster Girls' Grammar School2.5 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,038
    Type
    Academy converter
    Gender
    Girls
  • Lancaster Royal Grammar School2.6 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,294
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Christian

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Morrisons Daily Morecambe Lancaster Road, Morecambe0.9 miles
Morrisons Daily Lancaster, Lancaster1.3 miles
Sainsburys Morecambe, Morecambe1.3 miles

GP surgery

Lancaster Medical Practice2.4 miles

Pharmacy

Bare Pharmacy Ltd0.7 miles

Hospital

Queen Victoria Hospital1.5 miles

Green space

Play Space328 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Bare Lane Rail Station947 metres

Nearest bus stop

Mount Court626 metres

Typical drive times

Heysham12 min · 4.6 miles
Carnforth15 min · 5.5 miles
Morecambe7 min · 2.2 miles
Lancaster (city)14 min · 4.8 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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Contact Richard Turner & Son, Bentham (Nr Lancaster),

Royal Oak Chambers, Main Street, Bentham (Nr Lancaster), LA2 7HF

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