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Croston

Croston is a village and civil parish near Chorley in Lancashire, England.

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The place

Croston is a village and civil parish near Chorley in Lancashire, England. The River Yarrow flows through the village. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2021 Census was 3,098.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Croston

7 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
    Rufford New Hall

    Rufford New Hall is a former country house that belonged to the Heskeths who were lords of the manor of Rufford, Lancashire, England. It replaced Rufford Old Hall as their residence in 1760.

    3.9 km · country house in Rufford, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rufford Old Hall

    Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property in Rufford, Lancashire, in north-west England. Built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries for the Hesketh family, only the great hall survives from the original structure.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Carr House

    Carr House is a 17th-century house within the Bank Hall Estate, half-way between the villages of Tarleton and Much Hoole at the extreme north-west of the village of Bretherton, Lancashire, England. The building faces south to the Bretherton road, from which it stands back some distance, and has a foreyard inclosed on the west side by farm buildings.

    3.7 km · country house in Bretherton, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John the Baptist's Church, Bretherton

    St John the Baptist's Church is in the village of Bretherton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn and the diocese of Blackburn.

    2.1 km · grade II listed church in Bretherton, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mawdesley Hall

    Mawdesley Hall is a country manor in Hall Lane, Mawdesley, Chorley, Lancashire, England. It consists of a central hall with two cross-wings.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Mawdesley, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bank Hall

    Bank Hall is a Jacobean mansion in Bretherton, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is at the centre of its own private estate, surrounded by parkland.

    2.9 km · listed mansion in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary's Church, Tarleton

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church on the A59 road as it passes to the south of the village of Tarleton, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.4 km · church in Tarleton, West Lancashire, England,UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Croston

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 37 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 77 km
Stations
Croston railway station, 700 m · Rufford railway station, 3.6 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Croston
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Croston
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Croston
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Croston

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 Croston. 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

    262 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    305 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    323 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    346 km

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

Around it

Next door to Croston

Croston is 12 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ecclestonvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England3.8 km
  • Ulnes Waltonvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Brethertonvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Sollomhamlet in Lancashire, England, UK2.9 km