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Haslingden Grane

Haslingden Grane is the glaciated upper portion of the valley of the River Ogden, which lies west of Haslingden and is in the north east section of the West Pennine Moors.

The place

Haslingden Grane is the glaciated upper portion of the valley of the River Ogden, which lies west of Haslingden and is in the north east section of the West Pennine Moors. To the north is Oswaldtwistle Moor, and to the south Musbury Heights. It was once the home of Grane village, and is easily accessible via the B6232/A6077 Grane Road which links to the M65 motorway and the A56. Grane valley is dominated by its three reservoirs, Holden Wood, Calf Hey and Ogden.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Haslingden Grane

2 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
    Musbury Tor

    Musbury Tor or Tor Hill is a flat-topped hill in south-east Lancashire, England. It overlooks the village of Helmshore and separates Alden Valley to its south and Musbury Valley to its north.

    2.3 km · hill in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Calf Hey Reservoir

    Calf Hey Reservoir is a reservoir in Haslingden Grane, close to the town of Haslingden, in the Borough of Rossendale, England. It was the first of three reservoirs in the valley, the others being Ogden Reservoir and Holden Wood Reservoir.

    800 m · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Haslingden Grane

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 40 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 50 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 52 km
Stations
Haslingden railway station, 2.7 km · Helmshore railway station, 2.7 km · Baxenden railway station, 3.3 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Haslingden Grane
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–10
  • Liverpool → Haslingden Grane
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Haslingden Grane
    116 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Haslingden Grane

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.

From Wikivoyage: Bolton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    274 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    310 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    321 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    336 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    343 km

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Around it

Next door to Haslingden Grane

Haslingden Grane is 23 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.