Sedgwick & Hincaster

For this week's walk, we welcomed Paddy back to the fold after his enforced absence whilst caring for his carer!

Four of us set off from the centre of Sedgwick, famed for its former gunpowder factory. This area was a limestone producing area and gunpowder was used to mine the limestone. The limestone was transferred by the Lancaster Canal to Lancaster and Preston. The canal also carried coal from Preston to Kendal.

Sedgwick - The bridge in the distance was an aqueduct that carried the Lancaster canal over the road