Day 4: Preston to Churchtown
Discover that it's not all "Grim up North". No whippets or ferrets or satanic mills, just a day of gentle Pilgrimage, through fields, down river paths and along the side of the canal. There is a war memorial in St Walburge's church. The first part of the walk cuts through the centre of Preston and to Ladyewell Shrine, which is a popular pilgrimage site. After the shrine, we walk through the Lancashire farmland descending to Brock Bottom, we follow the River Valley to the A6, whereupon we take the Lancaster Canal into Churchtown.
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Monkeying around Pilgrimage 2012 Fran Gamble Original Tweet
Pilgrimage 2012 Fran Gamble Original Tweet
Pilgrimage 2012 St Walburge's RC church is huge but little used today. P.S. Pilgrimage now has 2 vans! John Chenery Original Tweet
Sunny north Pilgrimage 2012 Fran Gamble Original Tweet
Fran Gamble: Maureen the super hero Pilgrimage 2012 Pilgrimage 2012 Original Tweet
Pilgrimage 2012 Ladyewell shine John Chenery Original Tweet
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Pilgrimage 2012 John Chenery Original Tweet
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Wyre Bridge Howard Buxton
Pilgrimage 2012 The Green Man Inglewhite John Chenery Original Tweet
Inglewhite Congregational Church Howard Buxton
Pilgrims gathered Howard Buxton
Pilgrimage 2012 first mud Fran Gamble Original Tweet
Bunched up after catching FMs Pilgrimage 2012 John Chenery Original Tweet
Pilgrimage 2012 pilgrims passing source of Lancashire cheese John Chenery Original Tweet
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Pilgrimage 2012 Brock Side John Chenery Original Tweet
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Pilgrimage 2012 Old Brock Station John Chenery Original Tweet
Pilgrimage 2012 M6 in the distance John Chenery Original Tweet
Pilgrimage 2012 Here we are in Garstang Churchtown. Yesterday we walked through another Churchtown on the edge of Southport. Today a pilgrim uanble to walk caught the bus from Preston to Churchtown and guess what happened. John Chenery Original Tweet
Pilgrimage 2012 The full name of the place where we are staying is Garstang Churchtown, formerly Garstang Kirkland, Scottish influence John Chenery Original Tweet