sentences:  As High Sheriff of Lancashire, he attended the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on 15 December 1830.The event filled him with great excitement at the idea of bringing the railway to the coast and enabling Lancashire mill workers to take day-trips to the seaside.As he discussed the idea with his brother Charles, Hesketh soon realised that day-trippers would need certain facilities that were not yet available, and decided that a new town would need to be built.