Itinerary

These links and downloads reflect the 2021 schedule but the itinerary will remain the same, only the dates will change. 

Tour Modifications

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This tour is a modification from a regular GoAhead tour. Below is a description of our special day in Ramsbottom which will fall on the travel day between York and Liverpool on Day 8.

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TripAdvisor Link to activities in Edinburgh

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Day 8, August 4

Transfer from York to Ramsbottom

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This day is a work in progress but here is a basic idea. We only have a bout 4 hours for this itinerary so it will be tight.

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Late-Morning arrival in Ramsbottom

Lecture from the Heritage Society

Grab an ice cream and take a Walk in Williams Footsteps tour with the Heritage Society.

Visit the Helmshore Textile Museum

Transfer to Manchester

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The Footsteps tour is lovely but about half of it will be on dirt path (see photos below) and will probably not be doable if it is wet as it will be too muddy.

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ramsbottom like this: 

RAMSBOTTOM, a small town and a chapelry in Bury parish, Lancashire. The town stands on the river Irwell and on the East Lancashire railway, 4 miles N of Bury; was the place where the first Sir Robert Peel established calico-printing; carries on cotton spinning, machine-making, rope-making, and iron and brass founding; is governed by a local board, under the act of 1858; and has a post-office‡ under Manchester, a railway-station with telegraph, a commodious inn, a police station, a church, four dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a public school, an athenæum, a public library, and an Odd Fellows' hall. ...

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More Ramsbottom history from Wikipedia

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