Great Mitton
Great Mitton is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England.
Great Mitton is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It is separated from the civil parish of Little Mitton by the River Ribble, both lie about three miles from the town of Clitheroe. The combined population of both civil parishes at the 2011 census was 266. In total, Great and Little Mitton cover less than 2000 acres of the Forest of Bowland, making it the smallest township in the Forest. Historically, the village is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, but was transferred to Lancashire for administrative purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Mitton
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.
- 01Clitheroe Castle
Clitheroe Castle is a ruined early medieval castle in Clitheroe in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It was the caput of the Honour of Clitheroe, a vast estate stretching along the western side of the Pennines.
3.9 km · castle in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Whalley Abbey
Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, England. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site.
3.3 km · abbey · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley
The Church of St Mary and All Saints is an Anglican church in the village of Whalley, Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.
3.3 km · Grade I listed church in Whalley, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Old 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.
3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Clitheroe Castle Museum
Clitheroe Castle Museum is located in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, in the former Steward's House, a Grade II listed building that was built in the 18th century to house the steward of Clitheroe Castle. It is a museum showing the history of the local area.
3.8 km · museum in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Vicarage House
Vicarage House stands on Vicarage Fold at the southern edge of the village of Wiswell, Lancashire, England. It dates from the early 17th century and has been described as "the most interesting building" in the village.
3.4 km · Grade I listed building in Wiswell, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Edisford Bridge
Edisford Bridge is a toll-free, nine-span bridge over the River Ribble near Clitheroe, Lancashire, England. A Grade II listed structure and a Scheduled monument, located about a mile WSW of the centre of town, it crosses the river to the civil parish of Great Mitton.
2.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Stonyhurst 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.
2.5 km · Grade I listed catholic church building in Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Hacking 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.
2.1 km · Grade I listed building in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10New 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.
4 km · church in Langho, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Mitton
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 51 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 63 km
- Stations
- Whalley railway station, 2.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Great Mitton58 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great Mitton43 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £4.5–6
- Liverpool → Great Mitton60 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £7–10
- 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 Mitton
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 Mitton. 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 Great Mitton
Great Mitton is 20 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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