Geography
Caton is 5 miles north east of Lancaster on the road to Hornby in the valley of the River Lune. It covers over 8,000 acres of which 4,000 were moorland where stone was quarried. The township is hilly, Caton Moor in the east rises to over 1,000 feet above sea level and to the south rises to Clougha Pike at 1,355 feet and Ward's Stone at 1,841 feet. The Artle Beck flows in a northerly direction towards the wider flatter valley of the River Lune.
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