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Heath Charnock

Heath Charnock is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England.

The place

Heath Charnock is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 it has a population of 2,065, reducing to 2,026 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Heath Charnock

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.

  1. 01
    Anglezarke Reservoir

    Anglezarke Reservoir is the largest reservoir in the Rivington chain to the west of Anglezarke in Lancashire, England. Anglezarke Reservoir has three embankments: the Charnock Embankment, the longest, is 850 yards long and 31 feet high, the Knowsley Embankment is 240 yards long and 45 feet high and the Heapey Embankment is 280 feet long and 32 feet high.

    2.7 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Yarrow Reservoir

    Yarrow Reservoir – named after the River Yarrow – is a reservoir in the Rivington chain in Anglezarke, Lancashire, England, and has a storage capacity second to Anglezarke Reservoir. Construction of the reservoir, designed by Liverpool Borough Engineer Thomas Duncan, began in 1867.

    3.2 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St George's Church, Chorley

    St George's Church is in St George's Street, Chorley, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    3.2 km · Anglican church in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ Church, Adlington

    Christ Church is on Church Street, Adlington, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant Anglican church, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    1.4 km · grade II listed church in Adlington, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Paul's Church, Adlington

    St Paul's Church is in Railway Road, Adlington, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    1.2 km · grade II listed church in Adlington, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Yarrow Valley Park

    Yarrow Valley Country Park is a country park managed by Chorley Borough Council in Lancashire, England. It follows the River Yarrow for about 6 miles.

    1.7 km · country park in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    High Bullough Reservoir

    High Bullough Reservoir is the oldest of all the reservoirs in the Rivington chain, having been authorised by the Chorley Waterworks Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c.

    3.4 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rivington Church

    Rivington Church is an active Anglican parish church in Rivington, Lancashire, England. It is in the Deane deanery, the Bolton archdeanery and Diocese of Manchester.

    2.9 km · church in Rivington, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Rivington Hall

    Rivington Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Rivington, Lancashire, England. It was the manor house for the Lords of the Manor of Rivington.

    3.8 km · country house in Rivington, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Rivington Hall Barn

    Rivington Hall Barn adjoins Rivington Hall in Rivington, Lancashire, near Chorley and Bolton. The Tithe barn foundation stones support a Medieval cruck construction and possibly date to the between the 9th and 15th centuries.

    3.8 km · building in Rivington, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Heath Charnock

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 36 km · Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 68 km
Stations
Chorley railway station, 3.2 km · Adlington railway station, 1.5 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Heath Charnock
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Heath Charnock
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £16–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Heath Charnock
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Heath Charnock

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 Heath Charnock. 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

    271 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    306 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    307 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    332 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    339 km

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

Around it

Next door to Heath Charnock

Heath Charnock is 16 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Andertonvillage and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England2 km
  • Rivingtonvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK3.1 km
  • Anglezarkecivil parish in Lancashire, England, UK3.7 km