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Balladen

Balladen is a hamlet in Rossendale, Lancashire, England.

Balladen
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The place

Balladen is a hamlet in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It lies adjacent south of the town of Rawtenstall and is served by Lomas Lane. It was historically agricultural and then industrial, and is now almost exclusively residential.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Balladen

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hail Storm Hill

    Hail Storm Hill, also known as Cowpe Moss, is the highest point of the Rossendale Valley, England, an area of moorland and hill country situated between the West Pennine Moors and the South Pennines. It is wholly within Lancashire, although the administrative county boundary with the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale passes just a kilometre to the south-east of the summit.

    3.3 km · hill in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Musbury Tor

    Musbury Tor or Tor Hill is a flat-topped hill in south-east Lancashire, England. It overlooks the village of Helmshore and separates Alden Valley to its south and Musbury Valley to its north.

    3.9 km · hill in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rawtenstall railway station

    Rawtenstall railway station serves the town of Rawtenstall, in Lancashire, England; it is the northern terminus of the heritage East Lancashire Railway. It was formerly on the national railway network on the line between Bacup, Bury and Manchester.

    1 km · Northern teminus of the East Lancashire heritage railway in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John the Evangelist's Church, Crawshawbooth

    St John the Evangelist's Church is in the village of Crawshawbooth, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church formerly in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.6 km · church in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St John's Church, Rawtenstall

    St John's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Newchurch Road, Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    1.5 km · church in Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Nicholas' Church

    St Nicholas Church is in the village of Newchurch within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Manchester, founded in the early 16th century.

    2.5 km · church in Newchurch, Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rawtenstall Town Hall

    Rawtenstall Town Hall is a municipal building in Bacup Road, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. The building, which served as the offices and meeting place of Rawtenstall Borough Council and has been converted for commercial use, is a locally listed building.

    1.2 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Longholme Methodist Church

    Longholme Methodist Church is Methodist church in Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. 53.70103°N 2.28619°W / 53.70103; -2.28619 The current building is the third used for methodist worship in Rawtenstall.

    1.2 km · protestant church building in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Paul's Church, Constable Lee

    St Paul's Church is in Burnley Road, Constable Lee, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.

    2.2 km · grade II listed church in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Balladen

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 46 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km
Stations
Irwell Vale railway station, 2.3 km · Ewood Bridge and Edenfield railway station, 1.5 km · Helmshore railway station, 2.9 km · Haslingden railway station, 3.4 km · Clough Fold railway station, 1.5 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Balladen
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–10
  • Liverpool → Balladen
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Balladen
    111 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Balladen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balladen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    279 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    323 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    340 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    340 km

If you know how people move in Balladen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Balladen

Balladen is 23 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rossendaledistrict with borough status in Lancashire, England2.7 km
  • Rawtenstalltown at the centre of the Rossendale Valley, in Lancashire, England1 km
  • Haslingdentown in Rossendale, Lancashire, England3.1 km
  • Edenfieldvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Bent Gatevillage in Lancashire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Chattertonvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.7 km