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Haighton

Haighton is a civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England.

Haighton
Haighton · Aanstoots, J
The place

Haighton is a civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. It is a rural area north east of the urban city of Preston, beyond Fulwood and Brookfield.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Haighton

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
    Chingle Hall

    Chingle Hall is a grade II listed manor house in the township of Whittingham near Preston, England.

    1.3 km · building in Whittingham, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is in Fernyhalgh Lane, Fulwood, Lancashire, England. It is a Roman Catholic church located near the shrine at Ladyewell House.

    1.5 km · grade II listed building in Broughton, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John the Baptist's Church, Broughton

    St John the Baptist's Church is in Church Lane, Broughton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    3.8 km · church in Preston, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary Magdalene's Church, Ribbleton

    St Mary Magdalene's Church is in Ribbleton Avenue, Ribbleton, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    3.6 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church, Goosnargh

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in Goosnargh, a village north of Preston in Lancashire, England. The church dates from the Middle Ages; it was enlarged in the 16th century and restored twice in the 19th century.

    2.1 km · church in Goosnargh, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church Cottage

    Church Cottage Museum is a 16th-century cottage in Broughton, City of Preston, Lancashire, England. The cottage is grade II listed and is operated as a small museum, open on Sunday afternoons.

    3.8 km · museum in Broughton, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Michael's Church, Grimsargh

    St Michael's Church is in the village of Grimsargh, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Grimsargh, the archdeaconry of Preston, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    1.9 km · grade II listed church in Grimsargh, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Haighton

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 66 km
Stations
Ribbleton railway station, 2.9 km · Grimsargh railway station, 1.9 km
  • Liverpool → Haighton
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Haighton
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Haighton
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Haighton

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 Haighton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    253 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    288 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    314 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    323 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

Next door to Haighton

Haighton is 6 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Grimsarghvillage in Lancashire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Goosnarghvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2 km
  • Whittinghamcivil parish in Lancashire, UK900 m
  • Fulwoodsuburb of Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom4 km
  • Brookfieldsuburb of Preston in Lancashire, England, UK3 km