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On Friday 3rd October, our party
of walkers set off from Lancaster on a gloriously sunny
morning for an enjoyable train ride across the estuaries to
Ulverston. The initial part of our walk took us along the old
route to Swarthmoor Hall with its George Fox connections. We had
a walk in the garden and admired the outside of the old
building. We then enjoyed a morning break beside the rocks below
an Iron Age fort where there were excellent views back towards
Ulverston and to the Lake District hills. Coming past Urswick
Tarn, we were approached by a family of swans who possibly
thought that walkers meant food offerings. We explored Great
Urswick Church with its Anglo-Saxon Tunwini Cross remains on an
inside window sill. The next part of our route took us across
a succession of fields and past Standing Tarn, which looked
pretty and blue in the sunshine. We then descended to Dalton
with its impressive buildings dating from the time when it was
the chief town for Furness - the old Police Station (now a
hotel) intrigued us with its US flag. After refreshments in one
of the cafes, we made our way to the station for the train home
- and waited and waited only to discover that the train had
developed a fault and been cancelled at Barrow. However, all
turned out well eventually when the next train (which was not
scheduled to stop at Dalton) pulled up and we all piled on for
our return journey to Lancaster, just as the late afternoon was
starting to get decidedly cool.
Gill Gale
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