Catforth
Catforth is a village in the English civil parish of Woodplumpton and the City of Preston district, in Lancashire, England.
Catforth is a village in the English civil parish of Woodplumpton and the City of Preston district, in Lancashire, England. There is a village hall and the now-closed pub, The Running Pump, is situated on Catforth Road, which is the village's main road. There is a Roman Catholic church and a primary school.
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Worth seeing in and around Catforth
One place 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.
- 01St Anne's Church, Woodplumpton
St Anne's is a church in the village of Woodplumpton in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the deanery of Garstang.
2.5 km · church in Preston, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Catforth
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 75 km
- Liverpool → Catforth47 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Catforth52 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Catforth82 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Catforth
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 Catforth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Catforth is 8 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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