Tour Code

Depart Manchester

Arrive Manchester

NLIT

Wednesday

Friday

Price:  GBP £360 pp twin share / GBP £380 single person

NIGHTSTOP

DAY ONE - WEDNESDAY

DAY TWO - THURSDAY

Today we have a full day discovering and sharing the vistas that so inspired the areas literary tradition. We simply have to use the cliché 'breathtaking' to describe the spectacular scenery you'll be seeing as it is so very appropriate. We'll also see another of Wordsworth's properties at Cockermouth and tour Ruskin's preserved Victorian home at Brantwood.

In keeping with our literary theme, we'll also visit the Pencil Museum. Did you know that the graphite for pencils uniquely comes from the Lakeland?

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DAY THREE - FRIDAY

We'll take a beautifully scenic route through the Lancashire Dales, calling in at Ingleton and Settle to Hawarth. The dramatic moorland we see enroute inspired the Bronte Sisters to pen the novels which are classics of English literature.

In our explorations of Hawarth you'll be able to imagine the everyday lives of the Bronte Sisters as you walk round Haworth Church and the Bronte Parsonage Museum. If we've time, we'll also visit the National Trust's East Riddlesden Hall which, during the Civil War was a Royalist stronghold in a Parliamentarian area.

We arrive back in Manchester by 18.00.

Your accommodation is not included in your tour package, we can book any additional arrangements you require.

You can be dropped at either your central Manchester accommodation, the railway station or airport for onward travel if you're leaving today. Those joining our Wales, Mountains and Lakes four-day tour on the following morning will be dropped near the Knutsford home of Mrs Gaitskill's, the nearly now forgotten Victorian writer.

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