Weather: Warm but dull.
Distance:
16 km (10 miles) Total Distance: 3479 miles
This
would be the last walk I would do as part of a trip back from our Lancaster
factory as it would be closing down in September. This was a sad event because the workforce
had put in a lot of effort but in the end a slump in demand for camera film put
pay to their efforts.
After my meeting was over I changed and drove down to Preston, parked the
car in a park just across the river from where I was to start and then walked
over the bridge to where I stopped last time.
I retraced my steps, past the car and along the riverbank. The park slowly dwindled out into a path
through farmland and the number of people around became a lot less.
There
was quite a nasty smell at one stage from the rubbish heap on the other side of
the river. Apart from that, it was far
from a momentous walk. It was signposted the
Ribble Way, not that I had ever heard of it and I can understand why its not
one of the more famous long distance walks!
I stopped for a pub lunch at Longton, The beer was pretty average.
The
path got harder to follow after that but I managed it. Towards the end there was no longer a right
of way along the river bank and I was forced to go up onto the main road which
was none too pleasant given it was a very busy road. There wasn’t much to see apart from signs to
Bank Hall which was appearing on the TV series Restoration where viewers voted
which crumbling building they thought most worthy of restoration.
Once across the river I managed to find a
pretty unused path up the river bank and into Tarleton. There was confusion over where to catch the
bus back to Preston as buses appeared to go both ways around the village. I
had my doubts that the man who had claimed to help me had told me the truth
when a bus going the other way had Preston on the front but one did eventually
come and all was OK in life again.
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