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

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.
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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.
- 01Rufford 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 - 02Rufford 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 - 03Carr 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 - 04St 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 - 05Mawdesley 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 - 06Bank 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 - 07St 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 → Croston41 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Croston82 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Croston134 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21
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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.
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Next door to Croston
Croston is 12 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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