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14 members of the rambling group met today in the village of Scorton, about 8 miles south of Lancaster, to enjoy a ramble through the surrounding countryside. Scorton is on the banks of the River Wyre and is particularly fortunate in its location, being only a short way from the A6 and yet on the edge of the Forest of Bowland, an ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’. Scorton meaning ‘farmstead near a ditch or ravine’ is a village in the parish of Nether Wyresdale. It was developed around the cotton mill and railway in the nineteenth century, although there are records of the village and catholic church in Scurton, or Scorton, tracing back to the seventeenth century. Continue reading →