Ramblers
December Ramble – The Preston Guild Wheel
The Guild Wheel was a project to commemorate the 2012 Preston Guild and the object of the exercise was to join together a collection of pathways to provide a twenty one mile circular route of a good standard, for walkers and cyclists around Preston. For our walk, we decided to concentrate on the best part of the route, taking in a length of the River Ribble. We started by catching the ‘bus from Longridge to the Crematorium from where we started the walk, along the pretty driveway from which a path led off into Red Scar Woods , followed by a steep descent into the river valley. From here, we entered the Lancashire Wildlife Reserve at Brockholes where squirrels were running around and a solitary buzzard soared overhead. The path now wandered through a series of small lakes, popular with Read more…