Thursday evening, coach departs 18:30 sharp from Adelphi Building. Cars can be left in the same spaces as daytime, in Adelphi Car Park. The coach will return to the same place at the end of the evening.
For maps showing the location of university buildings and car parks, see the Campus Navigator
We will have a meal at the Shireburn Arms Pub/Hotel, Hurst Green, in the Ribble Valley AONB. On the way we will stop briefly for sherry at our teaching observatory at Alston.
The Shireburn area, near Shire Lane and the historic Stoneyhurst College, was the inspiration for `The Shire' in the `Lord of the Rings' trilogy. J.R.R. Tolkien visited the village many times; his son was a student at Stoneyhurst. You will be able to quaff a pint of ale at the very same bar that Tolkien did whilst dreaming of his hobbits' beloved Shire. Stoneyhurst, a famous Jesuit College for centuries, housed other famous names including Arthur Conan Doyle, not to mention Oliver Cromwell and his troops who slept on tables overnight before marching on Preston and winning the decisive Battle of Preston in the Civil War (1648). Stoneyhurst College also has an old observatory.