Walking around Lancaster

 Living where I do, on the edge of Lancaster, I have access to a wide range of urban and rural walks to provide my allowable exercise during lockdown, but some of my favourite walks are around the city itself.

Lancaster has some conventionally pretty bits that anyone would find attractive, such as the area by the castle...

Castle Hill

...and our magnificent Edwardian Town Hall

Lancaster Town Hall

but the bits I really enjoy might not be to everyone's taste. The use of stone, rather than brick, distinguishes Lancaster from most North-West towns and this shows particularly in the large areas of terraced housing that surround the city centre.  Built mostly in the 20 years either side of the start of the 20th Century the terraces come in a wide variety of styles and sizes.

From the larger houses of Primrose, such as these on Hope Street and Primrose Street now mainly converted to multi-occupancy properties for students

Hope Street, Primrose

Primrose Street, Primrose

 to the more modest dwellings in nearby Melbourne Road (note the chimney pots  - a common feature in the city's terraces)...

Melbourne Road

...and on The Marsh

Denmark Street, Marsh

Not much of Lancaster is flat, which means you get full value from your walk as far as exercise is concerned, particularly to the east of the centre in the area known officially as "Moorlands" but by many residents as "the Scottish Streets" of which one is Balmoral Road

Balmoral Road, with a view over the city centre.

Dorrington Road

and not forgetting my home street of Dorrington Road, where the houses on the right-hand side form part of what is, according to who you listen to, the longest unbroken row of terraced houses in England, the UK, Europe or the World (there are 92 houses of which the photo shows about half).