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Barnoldswick

Barnoldswick is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, Lancashire, England.

Barnoldswick
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The place

Barnoldswick is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, Lancashire, England. It lies within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. It is situated 30 miles (48 km) from Leeds and 40 miles (64 km) from Lancaster; nearby towns include Skipton to the east, Clitheroe to the west, Burnley to the south and Keighley to the east-south-east. The civil parish has a population of 10,752.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barnoldswick

10 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
    Noyna Hill

    Noyna Hill is a hill in the Pennine range in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It is a mile east of Foulridge and it is possible to see other local towns such as Colne, Nelson, Trawden, Barnoldswick and Earby.

    4.7 km · hill in Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary le Ghyll, Barnoldswick

    The Church of St Mary le Ghyll is in Ghyll Lane, Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Skipton, the archdeaconry of Craven, and the Diocese of Leeds.

    2.2 km · church in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Weets Hill

    Weets Hill is a hill in the West Craven area of Pendle, Lancashire, England. It is 2+1⁄2 miles south-west of the town of Barnoldswick and is 4 miles north-east of Pendle Hill.

    2.5 km · hill in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bancroft Shed

    Bancroft Shed was a weaving shed in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England, situated on the road to Skipton. Construction was started in 1914 and the shed was commissioned in 1920 for James Nutter & Sons Limited.

    400 m · mill museum in Barnoldswick, Pendle, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Michael's Church, Bracewell

    St Michael's Church is in Bracewell Lane, Bracewell, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Skipton, the archdeaconry of Craven, and the Diocese of Leeds.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed church in Bracewell and Brogden, Pendle, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Elslack Hall Cottage with garden wall adjoining to north of Elslack Hall Farmhouse

    Elslack Hall is a historic building in Elslack, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Today it has been subdivided into a farm house and cottage.

    5.8 km · Grade II* listed building in Elslack, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cross Keys Public House

    The Cross Keys is a closed pub in East Marton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The pub was probably built in the second half of the 18th century, on what is now the A59 road.

    5.4 km · Grade II listed public house in East Marton, Craven, North Yorkshire, BD23 · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Gledstone Hall

    Gledstone Hall is a 20th-century country house in West Marton, near Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. Designed by Edwin Lutyens it stands in a 12-hectare estate.

    4.9 km · grade II* listed house in West Marton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ingthorpe Grange

    Ingthorpe Grange is a historic building near West Marton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. In the late Mediaeval period, there was a grange of Bolton Abbey on the site.

    5.7 km · building in Martons Both, Craven, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Peter

    St Peter's Church is the parish church of East Marton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 12th century, from which period the tower survives.

    5.2 km · church in East Marton, North Yorkshire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Barnoldswick

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 63 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 78 km
Stations
Barnoldswick railway station, 300 m
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Barnoldswick
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Barnoldswick
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Barnoldswick
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barnoldswick

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 Barnoldswick. 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

    264 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    326 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    347 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    364 km

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Around it

Next door to Barnoldswick

Barnoldswick is 32 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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