Myerscough 5.5 miles

The Baton Grange Garden Centre and Entertainment Complex is situated on the bank of the Lancaster canal. The first part of our walk today is along the canal, but the tow path is on the opposite bank, so we crossed the bridge carrying the A6 north to Lancaster and got onto the tow path heading south.

                        There's a smattering of snow on the fells in the background.

It's unusual to see Martin with his hood up, hardy man that he is, but a short shower of hailstone's persuaded him to take cover.

Crossing the aqueduct, that carries the canal over the river Brock.

Another shower of hail.

We leave the canal here, to follow a track, or unmade road, that was muddy in places, to squelch our way to the back entrance of the Myerscough College of Agriculture.

As arranged, The sun came out, to make our dinner stop a bit more pleasurable.

Time to move on.

Leaving the College, we follow St Michaels Road southward for a short way before turning right along a narrow lane with no footpath. After 3 or 400 yds, a gate on the left leads us onto a farm track where up ahead we can see the hump back of the canal bridge.

 

Rejoining the canal we follow it eastward to the next Bridge which passes under the St Michaels road. We have now reached Old Nells, a complex of bars restaurants and holiday accommodation in an oldy worldy village setting.

           We stop off here to finish our flasks off under the shelter of the bowling green.

Old Nell's is a very popular stopping off place for the narrow boat and launch owners, especially during the summer months.

We take our leave of the canal again here however, and  after about 200 yds south along the A6 we cross the busy road and enter a well made road leading to some residential accommodation,

But we are a man missing, Where is Vic? Unbeknown to me, Vic had lost his stick, and after checking inside John's hat 😅, and not finding it there, he had set off back to Old Nell's. The rest of us carry on, on a short detour to the picturesque St Hilda's church.

We walked through the well maintained church yard to a lane on the far side, which led us back to the A6.

Once back to the A6 it was not long before we were back at our cars, where we found Vic waiting for us and wondering where we had got to. Although we had had a couple of showers of hail, it was not as cold a day as was forecast.

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