Dinckley
Dinckley is a small village and civil parish located in the Ribble Valley, in Lancashire, England.
Dinckley is a small village and civil parish located in the Ribble Valley, in Lancashire, England. Owing to the limited extent of the population details from the Census 2011 are maintained within the civil parish of Billington and Langho. The parish is situated on the south side of the River Ribble, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Blackburn. The northern boundary of the parish is formed by the River Ribble, and the eastern boundary by Park Brook and Dinckley Brook. The parish is part of the Langho ward, which is represented on Ribble Valley Borough Council by two councillors, both from the Conservative Party.
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Worth seeing in and around Dinckley
6 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.
- 01Old St Leonard's Church, Langho
Old St Leonard's Church is a redundant Anglican church 1 mile northwest of the village of Langho, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.1 km · Grade I listed church in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Stonyhurst College, Church Of St Peter (Rc)
St Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in Stonyhurst. It is the parish church for Hurst Green, Lancashire and a chapel for Stonyhurst College.
3.1 km · Grade I listed catholic church building in Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hacking Hall
Hacking Hall is a Grade I listed, early-17th-century house situated at the confluence of the rivers Calder and Ribble in Lancashire, England. It is thought that J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, may have taken inspiration from the ferry here for the Bucklebury Ferry over the Brandywine river in his book, as it was still operational when Tolkien visited nearby Stonyhurst College.
2.2 km · Grade I listed building in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 042 Church Street
2 Church Street is a building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England. The property dates to at least the 19th century.
3.9 km · building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 05St 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.
3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Dutton, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06New St Leonard's Church, Langho
New St Leonard's Church is in Whalley New Road, between the villages of Langho and Billington in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
2.4 km · church in Langho, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dinckley
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 54 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 59 km
- Stations
- Langho railway station, 2.2 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Dinckley61 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Dinckley40 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
- Liverpool → Dinckley56 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dinckley
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 Dinckley. 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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Next door to Dinckley
Dinckley is 16 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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