Lancashire Coastal Way Path
Walk along section of the Lancashire Coastal Way Path
Lancashire coastline
one of my best flights to date.
Cycling the British Coast 1.1 - Blackpool to the Scottish Border
A very brief look at the history of the Lancashire and Cumbrian coastline as I make my way bikepacking north from Blackpool to the Scottish Border.
#PART 1 - Blackpool to Silverdale, visiting Fleetwood ferry, Heysham Nuclear Power Station, Morecambe along the way.
The rest of the journey will follow in PART 2 and PART 3.
Places to see in ( Leigh - UK )
Places to see in ( Leigh - UK )
Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, 7.7 miles southeast of Wigan and 9.5 miles west of Manchester city centre. Leigh is situated on low-lying land to the north west of Chat Moss.
Historically a part of Lancashire, Leigh was originally the centre of a large ecclesiastical parish covering six vills or townships. When the three townships of Pennington, Westleigh and Bedford merged in 1875 forming the Leigh Local Board District, Leigh became the official name for the town although it had been applied to the area of Pennington and Westleigh around the parish church for many centuries. The town became an urban district in 1894 when part of Atherton was added. In 1899 Leigh became a municipal borough. The first town hall was built in King Street and replaced by the present building in 1907.
Originally an agricultural area noted for dairy farming, domestic spinning and weaving led to a considerable silk and, in the 20th century, cotton industry. Leigh also exploited the underlying coal measures particularly after the town was connected to the canals and railways. Leigh had an important engineering base. The legacy of Leigh's industrial past can be seen in the remaining red brick mills – some of which are listed buildings – although it is now a mainly residential town, with Edwardian and Victorian terraced housing packed around the town centre. Leigh's present-day economy is based largely on the retail sector.
Leigh is low-lying; land to the south and east, close to Chat Moss, is 50 feet (15 m) above mean sea level. The highest land, to the north and west, rises gently to 125 feet (38 m). Astley and Bedford Mosses are fragments of the raised bog that once covered a large area north of the River Mersey and along with Holcroft and Risley Mosses are part of Manchester Mosses, a European Union designated Special Area of Conservation.
Major landmarks in Leigh are the red sandstone parish church and across the civic square, Leigh Town Hall and its associated shops on Market Street. The Grade II listed Obelisk that replaced the original market cross is also situated here. Many town centre buildings including the Boar's Head public house are in red Ruabon or Accrington bricks, often with gables and terracotta dressings. There are several large multi-storey cotton mills built along the Bridgewater Canal that are a reminder of Leigh's textile industry but most are now underused and deteriorating despite listed building status. Leigh's War Memorial by local architect J.C. Prestwich is at the junction of Church Street and Silk Street and is a Grade II listed structure. St Joseph's Church and St Thomas's Church on opposite sides of Chapel Street are both imposing churches using different materials and styles.
Historically Leigh was well connected to the local transport infrastructure, but with the closure of the railway in 1969 this is no longer the case. Public transport is co-ordinated by the Transport for Greater Manchester. There are bus services operated by First Greater Manchester, Jim Stones, Maytree Travel, Diamond Bus North West, Stagecoach Manchester and Network Warrington from Leigh bus station to many local destinations including Wigan, Bolton, Warrington, Manchester and St Helens.
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Knott End Adventure Walk
A short video comprising of clips along the route of our journey from Knott End, via the ferry, to Fleetwood, and then #nordicwalking around the coastline along the Lancashire Coastal Way to Cleveleys before getting a tram to the ferry terminal and back to Knott End. Fabulous weather. Lovely trip out.
Let's Visit Lancashire (1950s)
A tour of Lancashire in North West England.
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Places to see in ( Poulton Le Fylde - UK )
Places to see in ( Poulton Le Fylde - UK )
Poulton-le-Fylde, commonly abbreviated to Poulton, is a market town in Lancashire, England, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde. At the time of the Norman conquest Poulton was a small agricultural settlement in the hundred of Amounderness. The church of St Chad was recorded in 1094 when it was endowed to Lancaster Priory.
Poulton has the administrative centre of the borough of Wyre and is in the parliamentary constituency of Wyre and Preston North. It is part of the Blackpool Urban Area and approximately 5 miles (8 km) from Blackpool town centre; there are rail links to Blackpool and Preston, and bus routes to the larger towns and villages of the Fylde. Poulton has a library and two secondary schools; Baines School and Hodgson Academy. There is a farmers' market once a month and since October 2011 there has been a weekly market on Mondays in the centre of the town.
Poulton-le-Fylde stands 19 feet (5.8 m) above sea level. It is approximately 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Blackpool and approximately 16.5 miles (27 km) north-west of Preston. It is situated on the Fylde, a coastal plain that is approximately a 13-mile (20 km) square peninsula. The town is on flat, slightly raised ground, approximately 1 mile (2 km) from the River Wyre and 3 miles (5 km) from the Irish Sea.
Poulton's public spaces include the Jean Stansfield Memorial and Vicarage Park, Tithebarn Park and the Cottam Hall Playing Fields. The Jean Stansfield Memorial and Vicarage Park is close to the town centre. It was built in 1955 on the grounds of the town's former vicarage, sold to Poulton Council in 1951. Tithebarn Park, north-west of the town centre, was built on the site of a former railway halt, Poulton Curve. It features grass play areas.
Poulton town centre has been a Conservation Area since 1979 and 15 buildings and structures in the town have been designated as listed buildings by English Heritage for their special architectural, historical or cultural significance. The market place at the centre of Poulton is the width of two streets and is now closed to motor traffic.
Poulton-le-Fylde railway station, on the line between Kirkham and Fleetwood was originally situated at the bottom of the Breck, the road leading north out of Poulton. Poulton is approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of the M6 motorway and is linked to it by the M55 at Greenhalgh. There are A roads to Fleetwood, Blackpool, Preston, Garstang and Lancaster.
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Thurnham Hall - Lancashire, England | Diamond Resorts
From timeless castles to historic parishes, grim tales of witch hunts and proud legends of bravery, Lancaster displays a rich heritage bursting with culture and intrigue.
This university town offers museums, galleries, libraries and beautiful architecture for exploration. Visit the Maritime Museum and discover a nautical history of whaling, fishing and adventures at sea. Explore the magnificent structural design of Shire Hall or venture down Pendle Witch Trail, the very same path traveled by those sent to trial for witchcraft in 1612.
A vision of English countryside beauty, Thurnham Hall proudly overlooks a stunning estate of nearly 30 acres of charming green pastures. Boasting an elegant Jacobean Great Hall, this 12th-century country house combines its historic establishment with the modern comforts of convenience. With a fully-equipped kitchen, spacious living arrangements and comfortable furnishings, Thurnham Hall offers all the making of a home-away-from-home. Whether you prefer traditional accommodations in Thurnham Hall, the main house, or the more modern Thurnham Hall Tarnbrook, you’ll enjoy a quiet retreat at this grand medieval-style estate.
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The Lancashire Way (1948) | BFI National Archive
Lancashire, Britain's industrial powerhouse gave us cotton, the Manchester Ship Canal, Blackpool illuminations, and the sublime rolling heather-purpled hills and the shimmering waters of the Lake District. And lest we forget, Lancashire also gave us the laundry detergent Lanry - the brand sponsored this adulatory travelogue.
Travelogues proved a popular fixture in cinema programmes up until the 1980s and were therefore frequently sponsored by commercial organisations such as train companies and tourist boards. Only in the last few moments does the sponsor of this travelogue of Lancashire reveal itself. This clever ploy means that the viewer's enjoyment of the travelogue is for the most part uninterrupted and they are left with the catchy slogan: No scrubbing, no rubbing, no backache ringing in their ears.
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Top 10 Worst Places to Live in England
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According to ilivehere.co.uk, which has been compiling this list for more than a decade, with the votes from thousands of readers, these are the WORST places to live in England.
10: Blackpool
Once famed for its golden mile, Blackpool now conjures up images of drunken stags and hens, falling over in the street and spewing on themselves, before retiring to a grotty seaside B&B.
9: Oldham
The most deprived town in England according to the ONS, where the streets have been described as “graffiti covered, fly-tipped shells of what they once were”.
8: Sunderland
has the highest rate of teen pregnancies in Europe.
sexual offences, violent crime and theft are all on the up and are higher than the national average. (I’ve seen policemen on pedal bikes chasing chavs in stolen cars. You might not believe it but I really have seen it!)
7: Gravesend
One voter comments: I have lived in Gravesend all my life. I have visited many other crap towns across Kent like Lewisham, Dartford, Chatham and so on and not one so far, has even came near to being as chav infested as Gravesend.
6. BRADFORD
A Commenter says: Bradford is literally hell on earth. The city centre resembles a squalid cess pit, full of monstrous partially demolished 60’s concrete office blocks, Pound shops, amusement arcades, prostitutes, heroin addicts, Eastern European car-jackers, Asian drug dealers, pre-pubescent mums and mad alcoholic tramps having arguments with themselves.
Being the sixth largest city in the country, in terms of population, it now boasts another famous serial killer...
5: ROCHDALE
One in seven people in Rochdale had no qualifications at all. Weekly earnings were £413 on average last year, compared to £676 in London.
4. SCUNTHORPE
A town once voted the least romantic place in the country.
Apparently Maccy Ds is a chav’s staple diet. Well the small town of Scunthorpe has 3.
3. LUTON
One commenter points out; on Christmas day the local McDonalds gets busier every year”
Black, White, Asian it doesn’t matter, everyone looks like they’re trying to escape or have given up hope on life itself.
2. KINGSTON UPON HULL
based on official government statistics, Hull is the worst place to live in England.
1. DOVER
Apparentñy Dover only beat Hull by 16 votes.
One reader comments;
Let us for a moment imagine that the British Isles are the silhouette of an old man. Scotland is his cap, Cornwall his toes, Anglia his curved spine, making Dover his herpes infested s**t-hole.
Which do you think is the Worst Place to Live in England?
Sizewell Thorpeness Coast Country Walk Scenery - Suffolk Walks - Tour England Walking Holidays UK
Sizewell Thorpeness Coast Country Walk Scenery - Suffolk Walks - Tour England Walking Holidays UK
Enjoy some great Sizewell and Thorpeness Coast and Country walk scenery with relaxing music to see if you fancy Suffolk Walks whilst on tour England Walking Holidays UK. Along the walk you visit: Sizewell Beach, Lover’s Lane, a golf course and St Andrew’s Church; The Fens and the Hundred River; Thorpeness village with the House In The Clouds and beach. Scenery includes views of: the dome shaped gas-cooled reactor of Sizewell; hundreds of pigs roaming freely outside their shelters; strips of woodland and The Fens wetland; the eccentric coastal village of Thorpeness with the famous House In The Clouds, the Westgate Water Tower disguised as a Tudor gateway, and lots of splendid properties; a sand and shingle beach with eroding cliffs. You also see coastal dwellings and fishing boats and maybe ducks on the Hundred River.
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Lancashire | Willow Bridge Farm CL Site Arrival
Willow Bridge Farm CL Site Arrival
In this video I show the route to the site as given by the club.
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Morning Mandolin by Chris Haugen
Where To Find Gold In The UK?
Where to find gold in the UK? We take a look at where to find gold UK. What many people don't realise is that you can find gold in the UK. Finding gold can be extremely exciting, but you have to know where to look.
England has always been known as a wealthy country, but the mineral wealth has never gotten much attention. The country is actually quite rich in mineral resources, and there have been discoveries of various minerals all across the UK. Different areas have produced different minerals deposits. Iron, copper, silver, tin and lead have all been mined in England, but with the high price of gold in recent years there has been increasing interest in gold from casual prospectors. In this video we take a look at some of the best places to find gold in the UK.
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Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!
Lancashire Country Walk - Pendle Witches Trail from Barley
Our video is a guided walk of the Pendle Witches Trail in Lancashire. This is a figure of eight walk and can be split into two walks. For the Western Loop we set off from Barley to Newchurch in Pendle where we visit Witches Galore and the church, then head off along Well Head Road to take a right turn steeply ascending and descending to Upper and Lower Ogden Reservoirs then back to Barley. For the Eastern Loop we set off from Barley and follow the river to Whitehough and then towards the Outdoor Education Centre and down to Roughlee where we see a wonderful waterfall. We then walk back towards Whitehough and finish our walk back to Barley along Heys Lane.
''The Lancashire Coast'' - 1955....
SORRY - NO BIKES!! ...it's a promotional film from British Railways. They were losing lots of money due to the boom in 'coach holidays' taking all the passengers and holidaymakers away from the trains...but then they brought in Mr. Beeching who advised them to close hundreds of stations and branch lines, and tear up a thousand miles of tracks! What a twerp...didn't he realise that a few years on, the roads would be gridlocked with the ever expanding population using millions of cars, buses and lorries?
Miss Lancashire busy on her way to Miss England
Hello everyone,
Here's a vlog to let you know what I've been up to recently to keep you update before my next blogs.
This is a No Make up vlog to support the North West Girls in their No Makeup campaign ;)
Enjoy my vlog!
Speak soon,
Your Miss Lancashire, Lucy xxx
Christian Nock on Day 577 of his UK Coastline walk for Help For Heroes
Christian Nock on Day 577 of his UK Coastline walk for Help For Heroes chats to Radio Lancashire as he approaches the final few days of his epic walk.
Places to see in ( Leyland - UK )
Places to see in ( Leyland - UK )
Leyland is a town in the South Ribble district, in the county of Lancashire, England. Leyland is approximately six miles south of the city of Preston. Throughout the 20th and 21st century, the community has seen a large growth in industry, population and farming, due to the establishment of Leyland Motors, housing developments and the surrounding usable arable land.
English Leyland was an area of fields, with Roman roads passing through, from ancient Wigan to Walton-le-Dale. It was left undisturbed for many centuries until rediscovered shortly after the Battle of Hastings (1066). Leyland is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1085). In 1066 King Edward the Confessor presided over the whole of Leyland. The manor was divided into three large ploughlands, which were controlled by local noblemen. In the 12th century, it came under the barony of Penwortham.
The area of Worden, which is now Worden Park, was one of nine oxgangs of land granted to the Knights Hospitaller, by Roger de Lacy, in Lancashire, but the land was not assigned to any individual and a local man, who was a very close friend of de Lacy, Hugh Bussel, was assigned holder of the land in 1212.
The town is famous primarily for the bus and truck manufacturer Leyland Motors, which between the 1950s and 1970s expanded and grew to own several British motor manufacturers, including BMC, Standard-Triumph and Rover, culminating in the massive British Leyland company. The truck business still operates today as Leyland Trucks, and is owned by Paccar. Leyland is also home to one of the UK's leading maintenance and utility companies, Enterprise Plc on Centurion Way. The Leyprint company is situated on Leyland Lane, a company which produces menus and other printed items.
Leyland railway station is on the West Coast Main Line and loads of trains pass by every Miunite the very placement of which moved the civic centre of the town briefly, including Leyland Police Station.
There is a marker adjacent to the old Leyland Motors Spurrier works declares the halfway point on the railway journey between Glasgow and London, some 198 miles in either direction. John Fishwick & Son served the town's public transport needs. They also connected the town to Chorley and Preston.
Leyland is made up by six different areas, the town centre itself counts as the main retail side, with the railway station, library and shops nearby. The other areas include Broadfield, Moss Side, Worden Park, Turpin Green and the Wade Hall estate. The Leyland Band have also recently moved to the town, after several years in various other rehearsal locations, and now have a permanent home in Farington Business Park.
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Gale Damage In Lancashire (1939)
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L/S's and M/S's of workers attempting to shore up the damaged promenade on the Morecambe sea front. L/S's of the damaged sea wall in Fleetwood. The commentator says of the wall The font looks as if a miniature earthquake has passed this way.
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UK Coach Rally, Blackpool, Lancashire. April 2018
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UK Coach Rally 2018
The 64th UK Coach Rally was held on 28th & 29th April 2018
at Blackpool, Lancashire.
Since the first event in Clacton way back in 1955, the UK Coach Rally has acted as a great showcase for coaching and coaching people.
Whether’s it’s presenting and celebrating the very latest models in fleets up and down the country, or celebrating the coachbuilder’s art in preserving the best of the vehicles of the past, the Rally is the place to be!
Meanwhile, the highly demanding driving competition is a reminder of the professional skills involved in manoeuvring today’s huge vehicles in tight spaces, driving them safely on our roads and getting the industry’s passengers to their destination in a calm, friendly and relaxing manner.
This channel is mainly dedicated to videos of my hometown, Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
Blackpool is a beautiful seaside town on the north west coast of England.
We have many cool attractions here including our world famous Blackpool Tower, the Pleasure Beach, three piers and a lovely sandy beach..
Blackpool is a relatively poor town that gets (unfairly in my opinion), a lot of bad press..
The aim of my channel is to show Blackpool in a better light..
No town or city is perfect so it's best to appreciate the good parts wherever you live :)
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Finding the Balance
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