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Worth seeing in and around Chorley

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
    Preston England Temple

    Church temple in England

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Anglezarke Reservoir

    Reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Astley Hall

    Grade I listed English country house in Chorley, United Kingdom

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Yarrow Reservoir

    Reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St George's Church, Chorley

    Anglican church in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

    900 m · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chorley Town Hall

    Town hall in Chorley, Lancashire, England

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Laurence's Church, Chorley

    Church in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Paul's Church, Adlington

    Grade II listed church in Adlington, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Grain Pole Hill

    Mountain in United Kingdom

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hurst Hill

    Mountain in United Kingdom

    3.7 km · 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 Chorley

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 38 km · Manchester (MAN), 40 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 67 km
Stations
Chorley railway station, 800 m · Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station, 3.8 km · Heapey railway station, 2.9 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Chorley
    31 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £4–6
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Chorley
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chorley
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chorley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.

From Wikivoyage: Bolton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    330 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    341 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chorley

Chorley is 14 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Adlingtontown and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Heapeyvillage and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, England3.2 km
  • Astley Villagecivil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England2.2 km
  • Heath Charnockvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK2.7 km
  • Anglezarkecivil parish in Lancashire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Lucas Greenvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.2 km