River Lune the West Coast Main Railway Line run. Below the gorge, the valley broadens out into Lonsdale. Bridges over the Lune include the Devil's Bridge near Kirkby Lonsdale and the Lune Millennium Bridge in Lancaster. At Caton, about upstream from Lancaster, there is a cluster of three bridges (one stone road bridge and two disused iron rail bridges now used as foot/cyclepaths) at the "Crook o' Lune". Here in a 180-degree right-hand bend the Lune turns back on itself; this is followed by a 90-degree left-hand bend forming the shape of a shepherd's crook and creating a beauty spot which was
French ship Lune (1641) French ship Lune (1641) The Lune was a 38-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy, the first ship of the line to be built at the new state dockyard at Île d'Indret near Nantes, designed by Deviot and constructed by the Dutch shipwright Jan Gron (usually called Jean de Werth in French). She and her sister "Soleil" were two-deckers, with a mixture of bronze guns on both gun decks. The "Lune" took part in the Battle of Orbitello on 14 June 1646, as the flagship of "Vice-amiral" Louis Foucault de Saint-Germain-Beaupré,Comte de Daugnon, in the Battle of