Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours

07/09/2026

Hauntings, Hangings & Horrid Happenings 11-09-26

👻⚰💀Something for the weekend? Our next public guided walk of Lancaster takes place THIS
FRIDAY! Join us for an award-winning look at the sinister & spooky side of the city's past on our latest Hauntings, Hangings & Horrid Happenings walk! 👻⚰💀

⏰️Start at Lancaster Castle at 7:30pm - Finish at The Borough at 9:30pm with free parched peas for all patrons! Tickets still available from our partners at Trybooking.com/UK 🎟

'Fantastic from start to finish! I've lived in this area for decades, but learnt so much new about Lancaster. Would highly recommend!' Deb S via Tripadvisor ✅

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06/09/2026

Good news! Love Lancaster BID have extended the voting in this year's BID Awards until 13th September! 🗳

That means a whole week of additional time to get your votes in for Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours, Gregory Wright, or indeed anyone else you feel deserves winning one of the 16 awards up for grabs! 🏆

We would be thrilled if we got invited back to the finals at Lancaster Town Hall for a fourth year in a row! 😘

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♥️VOTING EXTENSION TO NOMINATE!

🗳️Due to the absolutely crazy response of votes this year, we have extended the voting process by another week! You now have until the 13th of September till the votes close!

🥂What are the award categories?

• There are 16 categories, you can find them listed on our website, just follow the link to check them out:

https://lovelancaster.co.uk/events/love-lancaster-business-awards-2026/

🎊How to nominate:

• Complete the form for your nomination from the link above ^ where it’ll say ‘Nominate now’ under each category.

🍾Finalists and their guests will be invited to an awards dinner in the Ashton Hall on 12th November where the winners will be announced.

❤️ brought to you by Love Lancaster BID in partnership with Brakes.

💙A huge thank you to Brakes and all our sponsors for helping make this event happen.

06/09/2026

📅 On this day in 1910, Thomas Rawcliffe killed his wife Louisa at their Tyler's Yard home in Lancaster, then tried to take his own life. Failing to do so, Thomas was later hanged for murder — becoming the last man to be executed at Lancaster Castle. 🪦

The Rawcliffes' sad story is one of several featured on our award-winning Hauntings, Hangings & Horrid Happenings walks. Next tour: Friday 11th September — tickets from our Trybooking.com/UK. page. 🎟

📷 The entrance to Tyler's Yard, off Cheapside, Lancaster. Photo: Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours

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03/09/2026

Spending the day in York with Sarah from Experience Yorkshire and a group of visitors from Norway. Currently looking at the Castle and remembering Jennet Preston, sentenced to death here for witchcraft in 1612. Our next Witchcraft - 1612 walk, which features Jennet and her Pendle friends, takes place on Wednesday 30th September. Tickets can be purchased from our Trybooking.com/UK site! 🎟

📷 Cifford's Tower, York. Photograph by Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours

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02/09/2026

Spending a couple of nights in Durham with Delta Hotels. The building is a sprawling collection of adjoining old town houses, some of them apparently dating back as far 1630! :o

Having recently undertaken two Battle of Preston 1715 walks (featuring the Earl of Derwentwater, James Radclyffe), we were fascinated to find two of the properties making up today's hotel were once home to James's family: his aunt Mary Radclyffe and his wife's aunt, Elizabeth Bowes! Interesting stuff! 🙂

📷 A small section of our residence in Durham for a couple of nights. Photograph by Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours

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02/09/2026

🏆 Over the last three years, we've been very fortunate to win two awards in the 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' category of the Love Lancaster BID Awards! We've also made the final shortlist once too, acknowledging our regular contributions to the district's heritage & tourism offer. 🏆

There's just a couple of days left in the voting for this year's Awards, which closes on 6th September! If you consider us worthy of another shot at glory, please head over to the nominations page, give us a vote and let the judges know why you feel we're worth it! 🗳

Thanks for everyone's continuous & kind support! 🖤

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♥️LOVE LANCASTER BUSINESS AWARDS NEXT CATEGORY REVEAL…

🎉VISITOR ATTRACTION/EVENT OF THE YEAR..Kindly sponsored by Lancaster and Morecambe Bay.

🥇Vote for your faves now!

🥂What are the award categories?

• There are 16 categories, you can find them listed on our website, just follow the link to check them out:

https://lovelancaster.co.uk/events/love-lancaster-business-awards-2026/

🎊How to nominate:

• Complete the form for your nomination from the link above ^ where it’ll say ‘Nominate now’ under each category.

🍾Finalists and their guests will be invited to an awards dinner in the Ashton Hall on 12th November where the winners will be announced.

❤️ brought to you by Love Lancaster BID in partnership with Brakes.

💙A huge thank you to Brakes and all our sponsors for helping make this event happen.

30/08/2026

Up bright and early this morning for the start of six days of tour managing for Peer Gynt Tours & Abbey Ireland and UK! Still half asleep when the photo was taken, but so far so good! :)

29/08/2026

We are pleased to confirm that Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours have renewed our membership of visit Lancashire this evening for another 12 months! Visit Lancashire are the official tourist body for the Red Rose County and we are delighted to continue our partnership in promoting the area! 🖤🌹

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28/08/2026

Regular followers will already be aware of our love of 'The Buildings of England' books, a wonderful series conceived in 1945 by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. We added a new volume to our slowly growing collection yesterday, picking up a bargain copy of the guide to Northumberland! Rather timely as we start off on adventures across the north of England tomorrow! 📚🖤

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28/08/2026

📅 On this day in 1628, Edmund Arrowsmith was executed at Lancaster. Born in Haydock in 1585 to a long-standing recusant family, he trained as a priest on the Continent and was ordained in 1612 — the same year the Pendle Witches were sentenced to death at Lancaster Castle! 🏰

Edmund returned to Lancashire to say mass for the county's Catholics, and was first arrested in 1622. A second arrest in 1628 proved fatal: found guilty of being a Roman Catholic priest, he was hanged, drawn & quartered at Lancaster on 28th August 1628. One of his hands is preserved at the Church of St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith in Ashton-in-Makerfield, said to still perform miracles to this day. ✋

He was beatified in 1929 and canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales — becoming St. Edmund Arrowsmith. 🙏

📷 A memorial window to St. Edmund Arrowsmith at Lancaster Cathedral installed in 2002 and funded by an anonymous donor. Photo by Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours

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