43.5 Miles. Now at Herons Wood CL, in Lancaster.
We left Bury contented after spending a couple of incredible days in somewhere we had imagined would be boring and uninteresting. Even this morning before we left camp we saw two steam trains on the East Lancs railway setting out for the 1940’s era week-end, another pleasant surprise even though we were unable to photograph them in the pouring rain.
Traffic on the road was relatively light considering it’s a Bank holiday week-end. We made good time and had no trouble finding our next camp site. Once on site the camp proprietor gave us bus timetables and a map for the local walkways including one to the Lancaster Canal.
Once lunch had been dealt with we decide that as the weather was improving we would go for a walk. Over a couple of field and styles, across a brook and through a farmers yard we trekked. We came to another field and thought that we had found the canal but no such luck. Ah well press on through a small copse and see what was on the other side, another 2 fields unfortunately before we spotted the cabin of a cruiser going along the top of the hedgerow. Bingo, we had found a canal that we never got to do in Narrowboat Gypsy Rover.
Once on the towpath we followed it for a while to see if there were boats around but there was only one un-named boat. We concluded our trek at bridge 88 and then turned back. Had we had our GPS we could have taken another route but we didn’t feel like getting lost in the middle of nowhere so we merely retraced our steps. The round trip took us just under two hours so a rest followed by a cuppa was the order of the day.
A total of 2482 miles, since 5 March 2011
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