The Georgian & Regency Tour of Lancaster
The year is 1803. Farmer George has never visited his duchy of Lancaster but do not let that stop YOU. Lancaster is a town bustling with inns, a busy port, established market and the summer assizes...but it's also 'the hanging town.'
Amidst an air of classical respectability, this is a town with sinister origins and its own criminal underworld.
Explore Lancaster as it enters the modern age...but beware coachmen of ill repute.
Meet 'Johnny' Eccleston, coachman of the 'Perseverance' and your guide.

Come and join coachman Johnny Eccleston in the year of our lord 1803 on a ninety-minute plus tour of the hanging town, Lancaster. Featuring original artefacts and replicas aplenty, plus a venture inside a Georgian gem of a building. This trailer was shot on location in Winchester, Shepperton and Lancaster.
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A brief history of Carlisle, Chester and Lancaster
Scroll through the timeline to discover some fascinating local facts...
Death of Anne I, the last Stuart monarch
Lancaster’s port breaks free of Chester’s control (www.visitlancaster.org.uk)
Precautionary walling up of Chester’s Watergate and Northgate against Jacobites
Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives in Lancaster with 5000 Jacobites (www.visitlancaster.org.uk)
Carlisle besieged and captured by Bonnie Prince Charlie
John Poole publishes Chester Chronicle
Chester-Nantwich Canal opens (www.gps-routes.co.uk)
John Rennie’s Wyre Viaduct opens for Lancaster’s canal (www.lancaster.gov.uk)
Wedding of novelist Sir Walter Scott in Carlisle
William Minshull
publishes Lancaster Gazette
Start of Napoleonic Wars
Demolition of Chester's Pentice
New courthouse built in Carlisle
Duke of Wellington visits Park House, Chester
Princess Victoria opens the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester
Great Reform Act
Grasshopper Tea Warehouse opens in Lancaster
(www.thecoffeehopper.com)