Great Harwood
Worth seeing in and around Great Harwood
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.
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- 07St Bartholomew's Church, Great Harwood
Church in Great Harwood, Lancashire, England, UK
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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.
Getting to Great Harwood
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 49 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 50 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 58 km
- Stations
- Rishton railway station, 2.5 km · Langho railway station, 3.4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great Harwood36 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £4–6
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Great Harwood57 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Great Harwood56 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–9
- 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 Great Harwood
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 Great Harwood. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Lancashire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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If you know how people move in Great Harwood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Great Harwood
Great Harwood is 20 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hyndburnlocal government district with borough status in Lancashire, England2.6 km
- Rishtontown in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England1.8 km
- Churchvillage in Lancashire, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Billingtonvillage in Lancashire, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Langhovillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.5 km
- Billington and Langhocivil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England3.1 km