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Bremetennacum

Bremetennacum,, or Bremetennacum Veteranorum, was a Roman fort on the site of the present day village of Ribchester in Lancashire, England.

Bremetennacum
Bremetennacum · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bremetennacum,, or Bremetennacum Veteranorum, was a Roman fort on the site of the present day village of Ribchester in Lancashire, England. The site is a Scheduled Monument.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bremetennacum

4 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
    St Leonard's Church, Balderstone

    St Leonard's Church is in the village of Balderstone, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    3.4 km · grade II listed church in Balderstone, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    2 Church Street

    2 Church Street is a building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England. The property dates to at least the 19th century.

    100 m · building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Saviour's Church, Stydd

    St Saviour's Church is an Anglican chapel in Stydd, a hamlet near Ribchester in Lancashire, England. It has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.

    1 km · Grade I listed church in Dutton, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Wilfrid's Church, Ribchester

    St Wilfrid's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Ribchester in Lancashire, England, which is situated close to the site of a Roman fort. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.

    200 m · Grade I listed church in Ribchester, Ribble Valley, 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 Bremetennacum

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 54 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 57 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 57 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Bremetennacum
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £5–6
  • Liverpool → Bremetennacum
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £6–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bremetennacum
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bremetennacum

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 Bremetennacum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries ply to Liverpool from: Dublin twice a day (P & O, 8 hours), though there are faster sailings from Dublin to Holyhead in North Wales.
  • Get inBelfast twice a day (Stena Line, 8 hours) Douglas Isle of Man three per day (Isle of Man Steam Packet, 2 hour 45 min); Douglas also has ferries to Heysham near Morecambe.
  • Get aroundLancashire is increasingly a cycle friendly place for on- and off-road cyclists.
  • Go nextOr hop on a ferry to Ireland or the Isle of Man.

From Wikivoyage: Lancashire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    258 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    320 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    327 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    357 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bremetennacum

Bremetennacum is 13 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ribchestervillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK300 m
  • Balderstonevillage and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England3.4 km
  • Osbaldestonvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Clayton-le-Dalevillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Mellorvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK3.5 km
  • Dinckleyvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.9 km