“It is written on a wall in Rome that Ribchester was as rich as any town in Christendom.” We spent an interesting day in the Lancashire village of Ribchester situated on the Banks of the River Ribble, named as Bremetennacum Veteranorum, by the Romans in AD78. This was during the reign of Emperor Vespasian, when Britain was under […]

Healey Dell, once a very industrial place with stone quarried in the surrounding hills, coal extensively mined, water powered textile mills built on the fast flowing river Spodden and the coming of the railway.  A place of noise and smoke, but now with all these gone it has been made into a delightful Nature Reserve […]