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Mysterious
Lancashire Day Tours
Tour 1.
– Saturday June 5th
• Hear about John Dee & Edward Kelly raising
the dead and visit the churchyard in Preston were the deed was done.
• In the isolated village of Tockholes we find the evidence of an
ancient history of alfresco preaching with the Toches Stone and an Outside
Pulpit.
• Pendle Heritage Centre
• Near Pendle Hill we will hear of George Fox’s vision, which
led to the creation of Quakerism. Also the forest around the hill was
a centre for Witch Craft.
• In the village of Grindleton the strange religion of Grindletonianism
was born and was preached in the villages ‘Hell Fire Square’.
• Sawley Abbey
• Hear of the Boggart of Ribchester
• The strange story of the ‘Written Stone’.
• Longridge for a break
• Bleasdale Wood circle. A centre of religious gathering dating
back to over 3,000 years.
Tour 2.
– Saturday June 26th
• On the Old Ribble Bridge in Preston hear the amazing
story covering ‘Jacob to the Jacobites’ and the Holy Grail
in Preston.
• A Brief Encounter in Carnforth.
• The origins of the United States of America in to be found in
Warton, Nr Carnforth. The ancestral home of George Washington, the first
president.
• Warton Abbey.
• Morcambe sea front & the famous Eric Morcambe.
• Heysham - Heysham church –
Knight Templar Graves
The best Hog’s Back Stone in Britain
Crusader Cross
Viking Cross Base
Celtic Church remains & the ancient pilgrimage trail -
Amazing graves carved into the bedrock
Sight of a prehistoric temple
Cave Dwellings
What were the strange dug-out boulders for?
• Snachems, the pub and the King’s Shilling.
• Sunderland Point, the sad story of Sambo’s Grave, slavery
and the cotton tree that now seats a giant.
Price –
£29 each or £50 for both
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