The latest day in my progress through the Lowland Leader scheme. This is walk number seventeen in my logbook but the tenth one I have filmed. Eleven more to go until I have enough to go to assessment.
This video explores Lancaster from the River Lune, shows highlights of famous landmarks in the City, before heading to Lancaster Moor. My route takes you on a journey over Carlisle Bridge to a cycle trail leading to Morecambe Bay, famous for its sinking sands.
I return to the River Lune via Lancaster Canal.
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All right, cool. Welcome back to another quality loading day. This is day number uh 10. Uh now um it’s Saturday the 20th of June. So, it’s the solstice longest daylight hours. Uh, and I’ve chosen to come to Lancaster uh for this one. Lancaster to Morham. I’ve actually been here before um for a little day, but I didn’t actually video it last time. So, I’m kind of back uh to get that get that video for the log book. Um so, today it’s quite a nice route actually, following the river Lon where Lancaster gets its name from, Loncaster. um into the city center looking at some heritage sites. So, there’s a castle, a prairie, and actually an old prison to look at, weirdly enough. Um then heading out over Carlile Bridge uh following a cycle path to Morham, Morham Bay, famous for its quicksand, and then heading back on the Lancaster Canal uh into the um the Lon Vioaduct, which is where I started the trail from. It’s going to be quite exciting one. Weather’s really nice. Heat wave at the minute. Um temperatures might go south 26° today. Yeah, almost no wind. Might get might even have thundery showers later. I’ll put a screenshot of the weather forecast. Um yeah, cool. So, let’s go look at some heritage sites. I’m more sunreamed up and I got my sunglasses on and hat. It’s uh it’s definitely uh a daily protection uh from the sun today. Um just thought I’d go through quickly my navigation. So um I’m actually handrailing the river which is off to my right because I know that the path uh requires me to follow that until I come to a historic site of old Roman for on my left and there’ll be lots of indicators I’m approaching that um including bridges over the river and things like that. So, I roughly know when I’ve got to start doing some more fine navigation work. Um, but I’ve got to do something called handrailing, which is basically a technical navigation term for walking alongside a linear feature. So, you can handrail a road, you can handrail a fence, you can handrail a river or a canal. And I’m handrailing the river loom. So, although it doesn’t say on the sign, it’s a Roman bath house to my left. This pathway here leads straight to the castle and the prairie in Lancaster, part of the first section of the route today. And um it’s going to be like a late medieval heritage trail. So, I’m uh just at Lancaster Mall now, which um is quite a um a high point of the uh the eastern side of Lancaster City. Um and I’ve actually walked just past a cemetery to the place where um people who were convicted at Lancaster courts used to be taken. um before uh they were uh punished either by keeping in prison for a long time. The prison’s actually just to my right um or bit more morbid um some of them but the later medieval times 14th century were actually hanged close to here. So uh so yeah it’s got quite a bit of history to it. The cemetery is just on my left as well. So through Lancaster Mall and then uh down back west into Lancaster City where I will have a brief break and then take up the cycle trail which eventually leads to Morham which is part two of the day. Can’t wait for it. Let’s go. Thank you. Custo So this is the fourth and final section of the route leading back to the Lon aquifier um or Lun aqueduct for what it’s called. Probably not aquifier. Um it’s raining a bit. Um so the forecast said 70% chance. So um yeah, it’s relatively accurate. Uh on the way back, this is just a canal toe path. There’s uh nothing particularly technical about it. Um nothing really hard to navigate. It’s relatively near the train line and I did make a few decisions as I was walking. You know, I thought, should I get the train back, but thought I best just complete the route. It’s three miles back to Lancaster. Um, and then it’s just a drive home. So, yeah, it’s been another good quality land day. All right, see you for next time. Balloon Aqueduct. Back to the start of the walk.