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Hoddlesden

Hoddlesden is a village in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in Lancashire, England.

The place

Hoddlesden is a village in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in Lancashire, England. The village population at the 2011 census was 1,239. It is in the borough's East Rural ward, and is situated east of Darwen. To the north there are the parishes of Eccleshill and Yate and Pickup Bank, to the east there is Haslingden Grane, part of the West Pennine Moors, and to the south-west there is Blacksnape, a small hamlet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hoddlesden

9 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
    Darwen

    Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough of Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners".

    2 km · market town in Lancashire, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Barnabas' Church

    St Barnabas' Church is on Watery Lane, Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Blackburn with Darwen, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    2.4 km · church in Darwen, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Darwen Town Hall

    Darwen Town Hall is a municipal building in Croft Street, Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is the meeting place of Darwen Town Council.

    2.4 km · town hall in Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Cuthbert's Church

    St Cuthbert's Church is an Anglican church in the English market town of Darwen, Lancashire. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Blackburn.

    3.3 km · Anglican church in the English market town of Darwen, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Darwen Cemetery

    Darwen Cemetery is a public cemetery in the town of Darwen, Lancashire, England, which lies on both sides of Bolton Road with views across Darwen to the hills beyond. A Cross of Sacrifice erected to burials of First World War service personnel stands by the entrance of the older part.

    2.7 km · cemetery in Darwen, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Darwen Library

    Darwen Library is a Carnegie library in Darwen, Lancashire, England. It opened in 1908 and is located on Knott Street.

    2.3 km · library in Darwen, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Jubilee Tower

    The octagonal Jubilee Tower on Darwen Hill overlooking the town of Darwen in Lancashire, England, was completed in 1898 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It also commemorated the victory of the local people for the right of access to the surrounding moors.

    3.8 km · tower in Darwen, Lancashire, United Kingdom, commemorating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Peter's Church, Darwen

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

    2.2 km · church in Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    3.6 km · reservoir in 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 Hoddlesden

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 40 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 49 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 54 km
Stations
Darwen railway station, 2.2 km
  • Liverpool → Hoddlesden
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hoddlesden
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hoddlesden
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hoddlesden

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 Hoddlesden. 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

    272 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    318 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    334 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    343 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hoddlesden

Hoddlesden is 19 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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