Lancashire Day 27 November 2018

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.......Why do you love Lancashire?

Because Wigan is in it
I reckon there's no nicer place to be than the best parts.Lancashire,and Yorkshire FTM.
As for Blackpool I couldn't care less if it fell into the sea,a horrible place YUK! Go ten miles inland and Lancashire is beautiful

FTM. Fleetwood to Malham?

[Cyril Haearn]

Yorkshire has Harrowgate

Lancashire has ... please complete!

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Yorkshire has Harrowgate

Lancashire has ... please complete!

Harrowgate = Bottleneck and hilly.
Lancaster = Bottleneck and a bit hilly.

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.......Why do you love Lancashire?

Because Wigan is in it
I reckon there's no nicer place to be than the best parts.Lancashire,and Yorkshire FTM.
As for Blackpool I couldn't care less if it fell into the sea,a horrible place YUK! Go ten miles inland and Lancashire is beautiful

FTM. Fleetwood to Malham?

Good call
I'm in The Barn at Scorton ATM,the lanes are atrocious

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Has it been wet up north then?
I'd heard that Lancaster was flooded last week when we were sunning ourselves in Cardiff,
but the Welsh news hasn't mentioned much since.
Although my step-father in Runcorn did say that Haverfordwest got a mention on Look North.

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Has it been wet up north then?
I'd heard that Lancaster was flooded last week when we were sunning ourselves in Cardiff,
but the Welsh news hasn't mentioned much since.
Although my step-father in Runcorn did say that Haverfordwest got a mention on Look North.

I'm not sure if Lancaster flooded last week but certainly Galgate, a few miles south, did. Water up to the car windows and the A6 was shut there. Just the amount of rain that came down and the roads around us were flooded as the drains couldn't take it.

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I've just looked at the local rag's website and seen photos of flooding in Haverfordwest.
Thankfully, we had much lighter rain while away in Cardiff.

Hopefully everyone's dried out by now.

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Galgate flooded but in better news Galgate was drawn on postcode lottery. Ppl won from £12500 up to £50,000!

Pendle hill is a religious hill. Apparently the founder of the Quakers or other such religious group saw it from his stagecoach as he passed. He stopped and walked to the top, sat and contemplated. Apparently it was where he came up with a lot of his thoughts and beliefs. If you like his flavour of religion you could say it's where it was started.

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Apparently the founder of the Quakers or other such religious group saw it from his stagecoach as he passed.

He was George Fox. Troubled by what he saw as the corrupted hierarchy of The Church he wandered about the country thinking and wondering what might be the way forward. On Pendle Hill he looked out over the countryside, and saw all God's people spread out below, and realised that it was possible for any individual to have a relationship with 'God' without needing the intermediary of a priest, or a bishop with a gold plated hat, or a complicated building: all they needed to do was look into their heart and find the truth from their own experience. So he began to preach just that, and the Society of Friends - Quakers - began.

Of course one could argue that all religions start with someone going out into the wilderness and coming back with the 'word'. And you could argue that George Fox's wilderness was a rather tame one, and that the Quakers are a rather tame 'religion', but that is probably their great strength, and why they are still around.

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That's the story.

Quakers are possibly the least offensive religion. IIRC they even run a nice hotel / guesthouse / B&B in Grasmere too. Open to all no pressure to believe. Imagine a Mormon or JW run hotel! I know CoE practitioners who prefer going to Quakers instead.

It's not wilderness but it didn't have to be it was about the beauty of the world around you and your connection to God through it. Beauty is in valleys and mountains alike. We don't have the wilderness here but beauty is abundant. Could easily have been Warton Crag, Farleton Knott or Arnside Knott. Even morecambe promenade is beautiful. All have a decent panorama for such tiny hills or no hill at all. Beauty in Lancashire is varied if you're willing to recognize it.

Biased? Me?! Nah! Just telling the truth.

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........Biased? Me?! Nah! Just telling the truth.

Yer not wrong!

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A few weeks ago went up one of the Hutton Roofs that's up this neck of the woods. Not quite sure if it's still Lancashire but it's beautiful. Just up from Dalton near Burton in Kendal. It's possibly in old Lancashire rather than current administrative Lancashire.

It's a good dog walking area I reckon. Plus I'm not far away. Bitterly cold with a northerly by the trig point. Pretty flat, open land even if it's not high. In some ways up clougha / ward stones is similar but more so. You get a good blow up there in winter. Glad if a fire at the pub in Dolphin Holme afterwards.

North Lancashire, it's like Lancashire only better! But without the jobs!

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A few years ago we spent a week up in the Lakes (for around the 15th time) and were appalled by all the commercialisation.

On the way back we decided to have a few days recuperation and stopped off in Longridge for provisions.
We couldn't find anywhere to park the motorhome until a couple of local ladies told us to park in the civic car park, as no-one from there worked on Saturdays. They then told us where the best cafe and bakery was and I had the largest barm cake with thick local ham and mustard for around £2.50.

Went on to Chipping for a few nights with Pendle Hill looming over us. Had some wonderful rides in the area.

Friendliest folk and gorgeous countryside; oh how lucky you are.

fausto.

[Cyril Haearn]

A few years ago we spent a week up in the Lakes (for around the 15th time) and were appalled by all the commercialisation.

On the way back we decided to have a few days recuperation and stopped off in Longridge for provisions.
We couldn't find anywhere to park the motorhome until a couple of local ladies told us to park in the civic car park, as no-one from there worked on Saturdays. They then told us where the best cafe and bakery was and I had the largest barm cake with thick local ham and mustard for around £2.50.

Went on to Chipping for a few nights with Pendle Hill looming over us. Had some wonderful rides in the area.

Friendliest folk and gorgeous countryside; oh how lucky you are.

fausto.

Lancashire is the new Lake District, +1
Just got a new reason to love Lancashire: porridge oats, apparently the Quakers invented them
How many Hutton Rooves are there?
Anyone been up Black Combe (Cumberland), it looks interesting on the map, right by the sea
Diolch i bawb

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It's not a bad little hill. One of Wainwright's outliers. If you've done the Wainwright's then the outliers are a bigger list of the smaller hills up that way.