Lancaster walking tour

A historical journey through historic city's streets and parks

- Walk devised and described by Bob Clare

Lancaster is a place where you cannot help bumping into history - great big blocks of it like the Castle and tiny morsels like the horseshoe embedded in the pavement near the market claimed to be that of the horse ridden by Bonnie Prince Charlie on his foray into England in 1745. Described below is a route including some of Lancaster's historic sites.

Start: Railway Station car park on the northbound side of the railway. LA15NW What3Words:///woke. spent.pump

Fact file

Distance: 6 miles if including the Lune Aqueduct.

Time: Not being a walk in the usual sense take as long as you need sightseeing. The walking element will take 3 -4 hours.

Grade: Most walking is easy and flat but there are steep slopes leading to Castle Hill, Williamson Park and up to the station.

Map: OS Explorer296: Lancaster, Morecambe & Fleetwood.

Directions. Stepping out onto the station forecourt turn right onto Station Road and then left onto West Road. After 100yds arrive at the entrance to Westfield Memorial Village. After the carnage of World War One there was a strong political desire that there should be "homes fit for heroes". Westfield Memorial Village is the tangible expression of this. The estate consists of cottages, houses and apartments designed to make life easier for disabled ex-servicemen.