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It rises on the border with Yorkshire, and tumbles down the hillsides to meet up with the River Hodder and the River Calder to gather strength before pushing on to Preston and the coast.

Tubber Hill is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick; running alongside it is part of the Roman road which once went from Preston to York.

Preston was a County Borough until 1974.

In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style

In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style

The River Darwen (a Celtic name) is only 15 miles long before it joins the Ribble near Preston.

The bridge was designed by William Cartwright, the canal’s civil engineer, who was also an optician in Preston and an inventor of some note.

This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church.

This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church.

With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, bathing machines; those for the ladies were on Paignton beach, and those for the gentlemen on Preston

Antiquity shows in the datestone (1660) of the Ram's Head, a coaching inn on the Ormskirk to Preston road.

The bridge was designed by William Cartwright, the canal's civil engineer, who was also an optician in Preston and an inventor of some note.

The Preston by-pass opened in 1959, and the motorway from junction 32 near Broughton to junction 33 at Hampson Green opened six years later.

Kippax and its neighbour Great Preston grew up around the coal mines of the district.

The railway to Preston opened in 1846, but the station we see here did not open until 12 September 1886.

The railway bridge here was built in 1838 by North Union Railways for the Preston to Wigan line at a cost of £70,000, and is now part of the west coast main line.

Laid up at Birkenhead in 1890, she was taken to Preston for breaking up in 1899.

Notice the stage-coach arch next to the bay windows: the stage coaches to Preston and Blackburn left from here.

This enabled the trust fund that had been established by Sir Thomas Preston for the secret support of Jesuit priests in the area to be used to build the first Catholic church in Ulverston.

The line was single-track and ran from Preston via Kirkham, Poulton and Thornton.

Freston is well known for the Freston Elizabethan tower overlooking the estuary, the Boot public house, and the parish church.

The building was established in 1270; just inside the doorway are stone carvings of the local squire and his wife, who endowed this lovely place of worship.

In fact, cobbles are circular and very rare, whereas there are stone sett streets in most northern towns.

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.