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I know there is development at the ground...is the new car park complete? does anyone know...cheers in advance.

It's a full new ground they are building at a different location

bigcod 321 wrote:I know there is development at the ground...is the new car park complete? does anyone know...cheers in advance.

As HennysKnee points out their development is a new ground somewhere else. In the meantime...

The car park at their current ground Kellamergh Park is small and it was obvious they were going to be over run with travelling fans given how close they are. In the past we have taken 500-700 to Lancaster, Fylde is not that much further away. So I emailed them last season asking them about parking given the expected travelling support, in response they put parking instructions up on their website. They included a downloadable map (pdf). This time out there has been very little said about arrangements for this game, by either club.

On the match day last season the narrow country road near the ground was coned to stop anyone parking and blocking it. I believe a fair number just parked in the residential streets near the ground. The overspill car park on their map is a fair distance away, and according to Google maps a 20 minute walk from the ground. I recall a statement from their chairman a while after the game about parking saying it was a 10 minute walk, fast walker . I didn't have to walk from it last season so I don't know who is right about how long it takes.

Hope some of this is a help.

Anyone get the train last year? Looking at getting it to Kirkham and Wesham and getting a taxi from there...

I parked in that overflow carpark at the BAE social club. There were only a few cars there so presumably there's ample off street parking, although the vast majority went by coach last year.

One option is to come off the M55 and go through Wrea Green and drive down Bryning Lane (its a Country lane), past the Birley Arms which is the pub right by ground and head into Warton village and look at parking in one of the residential streets in Warton. There's a pub just outside BAE Warton entrance called the Clifton Arms. (There used to be a chippy across the main Road opposite this pub). Park around here and go to the Clifton Arms you've got a 15-20 minute walk back up that lane to the ground. Trade off between probably easier parking / Clifton, 20 min walk, or Ground parking / Birley arms- likely to be heaving (if you can get in at all).

Steeley wrote:Anyone get the train last year? Looking at getting it to Kirkham and Wesham and getting a taxi from there...

On way home from Halifax game, I saw some Stockport fans at about 8 pm on Preston station.
They said they had to walk four miles to station after game as couldnt get the one local taxi firm to pick them up and about 100+ people were queuing for the bus that passes every 3 days.
Was bank holiday Monday though.

This is going to be very vague (blame firmly landing at the door of ale ) but hopefully someone might be able to help.

Last Boxing Day we stopped at a pub not far off the motorway and by a large roundabout, the pub was a bit like the Brewers Fayre (but not a Brewers Fayre) by the dock museum and served pretty decent food. It was quite a large pub with a very big car park, there were also plenty of other Barrow supporters in there as well, with a bit of luck some one reading this.

It was handy to park there, get a pint and grab something to eat then get a taxi to the ground, hopefully that's the plan tomorrow....if we can find it!

Does anyone know the name or location of that pub?

Kingfisher Tavern I would think on roundabout about 2 miles from ground,cant really miss it
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.78566 ... 312!8i6656

bobbie moore wrote:Kingfisher Tavern I would think on roundabout about 2 miles from ground,cant really miss it
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.78566 ... 312!8i6656

Brilliant, thank you (and Mark Mc) very much.

Pretty embarrassing when you can get that off my vague description when 14 of us who had been there couldn't remember where it was