Lancaster City Council launches 2009 guided walks and tours programme
Guided walks and tours programme
Discover your local area
One of the most satisfying ways of discovering and enjoying an area and its attractions is to take a guided walk or tour.
Lancaster City Council has, once again, drawn together hundreds of walks, tours and related activities, which take place from summer through to the end of the year, across the district.
The packed programme is contained in a new booklet, available, free of charge, from Lancaster and Morecambe's visitor information centres and many attractions across the district.
Included in historic Lancaster are regular favourites, such as tours of Lancaster Castle and St Peter’s Cathedral.
These are complemented by well-established, themed guided walks, including The Pendle Witches Tour and Lancaster Cemetery Tours, along with exciting newer promotions, such as the Lancaster Unlocked weekend in September.
Information is also included on the variety of events and activities, which take place in Lancaster’s City, Maritime and Judges’ Lodgings Museums and a range of celebrations, marking the centenary of Lancaster’s Town Hall and the Ashton Memorial.
Elsewhere in the district there is a remarkable range of things to do. In Morecambe local guide Peter Wade continues with his popular ‘Echoes of Art Deco’ walk, which rediscovers the resort’s 1930s period buildings.
Peter also leads a number of ‘Seaside Specials’, which visit Heysham, Hest Bank and Sunderland Point, as well as the resort.
The district’s idyllic coast and countryside provides the setting for a variety of activities, with tours of the RSPB’s Leighton Moss Reserve, walks around the National Trust’s properties in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the famous Cross Bay Walks.
The booklet also has information on the city council’s own programme of festivals and events, such as the Sandcastle Festival, We Do Like to be Beside the Sea weekend and Lancaster’s annual November Fireworks Spectacular.
* As well as the visitor information centres, copies of the booklet are available from www.lancaster.gov.uk/guidedwalks. Alternatively telephone 01524 582394 / 582808.
Date Published: 13/07/09