Shed Clearance in Glasson Dock

Glasson Dock is a village of around 600 people south of Lancaster at the mouth of the River Lune, in the Thurnham civil parish.

It exists because of the dock, which opened in March 1787 to a design by Thomas Morris and could hold up to 25 merchant ships. It is still working, with limited commercial traffic, so alongside household clearances there is unit and commercial work here — and business premises need a named site contact and usually a booked slot.

The village never grew much, because ships using the dock did not need much local labour, and most of the nineteenth-century buildings are still standing, including Christ Church of 1840. Property of that age and scale means narrow frontages, tight stairs and no room at the door.

A two and a half mile branch of the Lancaster Canal drops 52 feet from Galgate to reach the dock, and the old railway branch closed to passengers on 5 July 1930 with its trackbed now a cycleway. Both restrict how a vehicle actually gets to a property, so it is worth describing the approach.