Guidebook for Lancashire
Food Scene
making fresh bread from a truly local business - go early because there are often queues down the street.
11 locals recommend
Filbert's Bakery
20 King Stmaking fresh bread from a truly local business - go early because there are often queues down the street.
Old established Lancaster firm, excellent coffee, just a stone’s throw from our house across the river.
12 locals recommend
Atkinsons Coffee Roasters
12 China StOld established Lancaster firm, excellent coffee, just a stone’s throw from our house across the river.
Quite Simply French
27A St George's QuayThe Three Mariners
Bridge LaneSightseeing
Lancaster Cathedral
Balmoral RoadLancaster Priory Church
Priory CloseStart in the city and see parts of its heritage you would otherwise miss. Carry on and you come to wonderful pubs and stunning open countryside.
14 locals recommend
Lancaster Canal
Start in the city and see parts of its heritage you would otherwise miss. Carry on and you come to wonderful pubs and stunning open countryside.
Parks & Nature
Our house looks out onto it and gives easy access to the riverside walks which take you past everything from fantastic feats of engineering like the Lune Aqueduct to gorgeous countryside.
River Lune
Our house looks out onto it and gives easy access to the riverside walks which take you past everything from fantastic feats of engineering like the Lune Aqueduct to gorgeous countryside.
Great open space with stunning views over Morecambe Bay to the Lake District. It has a cafe if you get peckish after all the exercise.
13 locals recommend
Williamson Park station
Great open space with stunning views over Morecambe Bay to the Lake District. It has a cafe if you get peckish after all the exercise.
Shopping
It’s a wonderful place to find odd treasures at reasonable prices (most stall holders can be contacted by the reception desk if you want to haggle). It’s also great just to browse around on a rainy day, and there’s a restaurant and farm shop on the same site.
6 locals recommend
GB Antiques
Wyresdale RoadIt’s a wonderful place to find odd treasures at reasonable prices (most stall holders can be contacted by the reception desk if you want to haggle). It’s also great just to browse around on a rainy day, and there’s a restaurant and farm shop on the same site.
Excellent local produce and fresh meat and fish at good prices, every Wednesday and Saturday. Also has some really good street food stalls.
Market Street
Market StreetExcellent local produce and fresh meat and fish at good prices, every Wednesday and Saturday. Also has some really good street food stalls.
Essentials
An easy walk from the house over the Millennium Bridge if you don’t have too much to carry back.
26 locals recommend
Sainsbury's
Cable StreetAn easy walk from the house over the Millennium Bridge if you don’t have too much to carry back.
Getting Around
Bus Station (Stand 15)
A short, flat walk away, about 5 minutes across the Millennium Bridge
Railway Station
An uphill walk from the house but not far away, about a 16 minute stroll.