Arkholme is a small village forming part of a cluster of sites along the Lune Valley, each with evidence of a motte – as with Melling and Whittington.

A tunnel took the line from Wennington (where it connected with the Midland Railway) to Melling, the next station being at Arkholme.

Arkholme is one of only two Thankful Villages in Lancashire – those rare places that suffered no fatalities during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

According to an article on the BBC website ([1]), Arkholme and Nether Kellet were also doubly Thankful Villages, having lost no men in either world war.

Arkholme Village Hall, designed by Mason Gillibrand Architects of Caton, Lancaster, was completed in 2004 and won an RICS Community Benefit Award in 2005.