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