Quaker Journey: Exploring the Roots of Quakerism in England’s Lake District General Itinerary, www.cfsnc.org/QuakerJourney Friday, July 20~ Saturday, July 21 • Travel from the United States to Manchester, England • Overnight at Bewley’s Hotel or other lodging, Manchester, England Sunday, July 22 • Bus from Manchester Airport/Bewley’s Hotel to Glenthorne, www.glenthorne.org • Tea and orientation to Glenthorne and our week together • Open afternoon for rest/local exploration/activities Monday, July 23; Tuesday, July 24; Thursday, July 26; Friday, July 27 • Welcome and introductory talk by our British Quaker guide, Roy Stephenson • Brigflatts Meeting House, www.brigflatts.org • Colthouse Meeting House, www.visitcumbria.com/amb/colthouse-quaker-meeting-house • Fox’s Pulpit/Firbank Fell, www.brigflatts.org/firbankfell.html • Hawkshead Village, www.hawkshead-village.co.uk • Lancaster Castle/Prison, www.lancastercastle.com • Pendle Hill, www.visitlancashire.com/explore/pendle-hill • Preston Patrick Meeting House, www.kendal-and-sedbergh-quakers.org.uk/page16.html • Quaker Tapestry Exhibit, Kendal, www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk • Sawley Meeting House, http://sawley.pendlehillquakers.org.uk • Settle Meeting House, www.settlequakers.org.uk • St. Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh, www.sedbergh.org.uk/churches/anglican • Swarthmore Hall, www.swarthmoorhall.co.uk • Meeting for Worship and final thoughts Wednesday, July 25; Saturday, July 28 Open days for rest/local exploration/activities using local transport or on foot. Possibilities include: writer William Wordsworth’s Dovecote Cottage, Allan Bank, or Rydal Mount homes, the Wordsworth Museum, and his grave at St. Oswald’s Church; Sarah Nelson’s Grasmere Gingerbread Shop; Beatrix Potter’s house; the Heaton Cooper Studio (an art gallery and shop); the garden of local storyteller Taffy Thomas; the ruins of the Roman fort Galava; a hike up Helm Crag; a cruise on Windermere Lake; the Blackwell Arts and Crafts House; a visit to Morecambe Bay with a guide; a walk to Easedale Tarn; biking around the countryside; local bus service northward to the town of Keswick (home of the Cumberland Pencil Museum) and the Derwentwater lake; Mosedale Meetinghouse and Coffee Shop; the Castlerigg stone circle; and more! Sunday. July 29 • Bus from Glenthorne to Manchester Airport/Oxenholme Station • Travel to the United States .