help - pagan days out?

[Saraha]

I'm keen to expand my list of "little days out with a bit of Pagan significance to them" within an hour's drive say of Liverpool - any suggestions anyone?

[duckman]

you could see if the wirral country park will allow you a bush craft day so that we may rember the everyday skills of our ancesstors

[P]

Do you know if the park have staff/rangers who would do something like that ? Or perhaps guided walks etc ?

[SeaVoyage]

Speaking of guided walks, I go on the occasional guided walk with the Liverpool park rangers. Some of them are really good. What may be a good idea is to post one of the walks and see if there are any fellow pagans who wish to go also on a specific walk. A craft walk would be interesting if there is one around.

[Hereweald]

Have a Viking day out on the Wirral.

Indoor treasures include the carved "hogsback" tombstone - so called because of its curved shape - in St Bridget's church (http://www.stbridgetschurch.org.uk/) at West Kirby, just near the pulpit, and pieces of a Viking cross in St Mary and St Hilary's, Neston.

And, Thor's Stone at nearby Thurstaston, which attracted a high-ranking delegation from Trondheim in 2001 after a Norwegian paper claimed that the red sandstone outcrop was Thor's actual hammer and should be returned. Evidence included the fact that the surrounding Thurstaston Common is struck by lightning more often than anywhere else in the largely low-lying Wirral.

The Norwegian delegation couldn't find any metal and, anyway, announced that they were happy with the way their cousins on the Wirral were preserving the stone and all the other Viking bits and bobs.

Thor's Stone is on Thurstaston Hill, OS map ref: SJ2484

[Boris]

I'd love to give you a list of stone circles within an hours drive but the only one in range is Cheetham Close north of Bolton and it isn't much to look at - not too long a walk but some bits are a bit steep.

There is the Bleasdale Circle - a sort of timber-henge on the western slopes of the Forest of Bowland, but otherwise you'd need to double the travel time for the rich pickings in the Peak/Lake districts and Snowdonia.