Helmshore
Helmshore is a village in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England, south of Haslingden between the A56 and the B6235, 16 miles (26 km) north of Manchester.
Helmshore is a village in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England, south of Haslingden between the A56 and the B6235, 16 miles (26 km) north of Manchester. The population at the 2011 census was 5,805. The housing in Helmshore is mixed, with some two-up, two-down terraces, top-and-bottom houses and a few surviving back-to-back cottages. Between the 1970s and 2020 new housing estates have proliferated.
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Worth seeing in and around Helmshore
8 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.
- 01Musbury 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.
1.3 km · hill in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 02Rawtenstall railway station
Rawtenstall railway station serves the town of Rawtenstall, in Lancashire, England; it is the northern terminus of the heritage East Lancashire Railway. It was formerly on the national railway network on the line between Bacup, Bury and Manchester.
2.8 km · Northern teminus of the East Lancashire heritage railway in England · Wikipedia - 03Pilgrims Cross, Holcombe Moor
Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor, also called Whowell's Cross and Chatterton's Cross, is located on Holcombe Moor near Ramsbottom and Holcombe, Greater Manchester, England. It marks the site of a 12th-century stone wayside cross, originally placed for the use of travellers, for prayer and as a guide post.
3.2 km · Monument marking the site of the ancient Pilgrims Cross on Holcombe Moor · Wikipedia - 04Calf 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.
3.3 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Rawtenstall Town Hall
Rawtenstall Town Hall is a municipal building in Bacup Road, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. The building, which served as the offices and meeting place of Rawtenstall Borough Council and has been converted for commercial use, is a locally listed building.
3.3 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 06Longholme Methodist Church
Longholme Methodist Church is Methodist church in Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. 53.70103°N 2.28619°W / 53.70103; -2.28619 The current building is the third used for methodist worship in Rawtenstall.
3.2 km · protestant church building in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St John's Church, Rawtenstall
St John's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Newchurch Road, Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.9 km · church in Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Paul's Church, Constable Lee
St Paul's Church is in Burnley Road, Constable Lee, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.
3.7 km · grade II listed church in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Helmshore
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 48 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 52 km
- Stations
- Irwell Vale railway station, 1.4 km · Ewood Bridge and Edenfield railway station, 1.4 km · Helmshore railway station, 300 m · Stubbins railway station, 3.3 km · Haslingden railway station, 2.7 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Helmshore53 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
- Liverpool → Helmshore53 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Helmshore113 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Helmshore
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 Helmshore. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.
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Next door to Helmshore
Helmshore is 24 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rawtenstalltown at the centre of the Rossendale Valley, in Lancashire, England2.8 km
- Haslingdentown in Rossendale, Lancashire, England2 km
- Edenfieldvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3 km
- Bent Gatevillage in Lancashire, England, UK1.5 km
- Chattertonvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.9 km
- Stubbinsvillage in Lancashire, United Kingdom3.2 km