`Ribchester and the River Ribble

The ride home from Blackburn, via Ribchester and Longridge

[Music] [Music] welcome back to the channel everybody so we just had the heated grips fitted now we’re deciding which way to go back i think my mirrors have been altered since it’s been in the garage so I’ve decided to uh go back through Ribchester so we’ve come back from the uh from mules we’ve come up Wally Road now making towards Ribchester now so the river is in the bottom and I think after we’ve been to Ribchester we’ll head over towards well Long Ridge and then Engle White and then towards Garang that way perhaps avoid the A6 between Preston and Garang and Lancaster but we’ll see i might have a look in Ribchester by the river if we can although it’s years since I’ve been there but might uh might be worth a look wow that’s a beautiful property to your left so this is a river ripple heat heat i quite like using Google Maps i like the feature where you can just have a look at the map and rather than putting an end destination in just midway just drop a pin and navigate to that pin just gives you a little bit more flexibility when you’re out so what I did when I set off from mules I dropped a pin at Ribchester here and then I’ve just dropped before I set off again I just stopped at the side of the road to uh to set up the mic and the the video i dropped another pin at Engle White so on our way here I think we came out there when I came over the top of [Music] um Jeffrey [Music] Hill i think the river’s to the left hand side here down here it’s a pretty little village is Ripchester an old Roman village cuz it’s got the word Chester incorporated into the name it’s supposedly got an old Roman connection i think we’ll park back up here on that corner the earliest Roman fort at Ribchester was established in the early ‘7s AD i know dominar very pretty [Music] right we’ll continue our journey having just seen the river and over to we’re going to sneeze then head over towards Longidge dear [Music] [Music] meat heat heat back into a 30 mph what a super day today ideal for messing around on the bike [Music] yeah so when I was at Ules they said about an hour and a half uh I had to wait um so I just hung around just had a couple of coffees had a walk around the showroom another gentleman was there over from Southport having his bike serviced but he he had to wait about 2 and 1/2 hours i said “Well you should have taken the bike out that length of time you could have test ridden another bike.” He said “Yeah.” He said “You’re probably right i should have done.” Well his uh his bike was ready at the same time as this so he was heading back over towards Southport so the heated grips that they’ve had fitted just this little button here by my thumb underneath the I’ll put a little YouTube short on about them but they’re fully integrated into the bike so you don’t have a separate display as such unlike the uh the Oxford heated grips i think we’re on the outskirts of Longidge should be coming up shortly I think not long off plumbing cyclist my god they stop at home my cousin this coming month or next month is supposed to be bringing me fly fishing to one of these reservoirs i don’t know which one it is something I haven’t done for a long long time when I was younger and living at Garang I did quite a bit of shooting with my dad and we used to know a gentleman called Derry Roscll who was a keen deer shooter and they had a young son and kept his rifles in a a gun cabinet but whether the the son had found the key for the gun cabinet or not we don’t know whether Derry Roscll had just left the cabinet open we never did get to find out but anyway he was playing with his friend in the lounge and there were probably only you know young lads 10 11 probably something like that and he got this rifle out of the cabinet and uh he must have got some ammunition anyway from what we heard the rifle was thrown down onto the seti and it went off and it uh shot Deroscll’s son in the [Music] chest and it severed a main artery and he he died straight away so as soon as my dad heard that cuz they live quite close to us right that’s it now no more guns in the house so we had to get rid of the guns so we took up fly fishing instead but that never worked um I learned how to fly fish but I didn’t do it very often soon lost interest and then when I was old enough at 17 to get my own gun license I applied for my license and then joined the Moray Wild Fowlers so that was the last time I fly fished when I was uh well before I was 17 this is the center of Long Ridge i’m on familiar territory again now although I haven’t used those these roads very often at least have a a vague idea where we’re heading More new housing got big bungalows of those as well aren’t they they’re just springing up all everywhere aren’t they these new estates heat heat heat heat [Music] [Music] i bet these lights are going to change before we get there there you go you see i knew it [Music] i’ve often wondered if these lights have a just a movement sensor up above or a light sensor cuz I think at night if you flash them they’ll change now I don’t know whether that’s the movement that it’s detecting or whether it’s your lights from your headlamps perhaps you people out there will be able to tell me [Music] [Music] Heat up here all [Music] right I think we’ll pull up shortly if we can find a Beautiful thereby [Music] [Music] i think we’ll try and stop in the uh in the center my memory serves me correctly there’s a little bit of a green in the center of Engle White let’s pull in here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right we’re going to stop the video here and then we’ll do another video from Mingle White towards Garang so I hope you’ve uh enjoyed that little trip back over from Ribchester or and towards Ribchester obviously from uh from Blackburn so if you have please give me a big thumbs up like and subscribe and we’ll see you again shortly