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Extract from the Lancaster Travel Guides:
LANCASTER
, Lancashire's county town, dates back at least as far as the Roman occupation, though only the scant remains of a bath-house and traces of the fort wall survive from that period. It became an important port on the slave triangle, and it's the legacy of predominantly Georgian buildings from that time that gives the town its character, particularly in the leafy areas around the castle. It's no surprise that many people choose to spend a night here on the way to the Lakes or Dales to the north, and it's an easy side-trip a few miles west to the resort of
Morecambe
and to neighbouring
Heysham village
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read the whole Lancaster Travel Guides...
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