Hyndburn
Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Accrington, the largest town, and the borough also covers the outlying towns of Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood, Oswaldtwistle and Rishton. The borough was created in 1974 and takes its name from the River Hyndburn. It had a population of 80,734 at the 2011 Census. Elections to the council are held in three out of every four years, with one third of the 35 seats on the council being elected at each election. Both the Conservative and Labour parties have controlled the council at different times, as well as periods when no party has had a majority.
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Worth seeing in and around Hyndburn
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.
- 01Crown Ground
The Crown Ground is a multi-use stadium in Accrington, Lancashire, England. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Accrington Stanley.
800 m · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Immanuel Church, Oswaldtwistle
Immanuel Church is an Anglican church in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Blackburn.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Hyndburn, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St James' Church, Church Kirk
St James' Church is an redundant church in St James' Road, Church, Hyndburn, Lancashire, England. It was an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Accrington, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn until November 2015 when it was closed.
1.4 km · church in Church, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Haworth Art Gallery
The Haworth Art Gallery is a public art gallery located in Accrington, Lancashire, northwest England, and is the home of the largest collection in Europe of Tiffany glass from the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The museum, a Tudor-style house, was originally built in 1909 to be the home of William Haworth, a manufacturer of textiles.
3.5 km · art gallery, museum and park in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Shuttleworth Hall
Shuttleworth Hall is a 17th-century manor house in the civil parish of Hapton in Lancashire, England. It is protected as a Grade I listed building.
4 km · Grade I listed English country house in Hapton, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Oswaldtwistle Town Hall
Oswaldtwistle Town Hall is a municipal building in Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, a town in Lancashire, England. The building accommodated the Oswaldtwistle Civic Arts Centre until it closed in 2023.
2.7 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 07Globe Works
The Globe Works is a former industrial works in Accrington, Lancashire, England, that following refurbishment contains rented offices and conference rooms and is known as the Globe Centre. The centre is made up of the remainder of The Globe Works, which created machinery and looms for the cotton industry under management of the Howard & Bullough firm.
2.1 km · building in Accrington, Hyndburn, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 08Accrington Town Hall
Accrington Town Hall is a municipal building on Blackburn Road in Accrington, Lancashire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Accrington Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
2 km · municipal building in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Accrington Library
Accrington Library is a Carnegie library located in the town of Accrington, Lancashire. In 1904 a sum of £7,500 was offered to the town by the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for the building of a new library.
2 km · Carnegie Library in England · Wikipedia - 10Cannon Street Baptist Church
Cannon Street Baptist Church, Accrington is a Grade II listed former Baptist church in Accrington, Lancashire.
2 km · church in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hyndburn
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 47 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 49 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 57 km
- Stations
- Accrington railway station, 1.8 km · Church and Oswaldtwistle railway station, 2.1 km · Rishton railway station, 2.5 km · Huncoat railway station, 2.4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hyndburn33 km · quickest by road, 1h · £4–5
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hyndburn55 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £9–11
- Liverpool → Hyndburn55 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hyndburn
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 Hyndburn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Hyndburn
Hyndburn is 21 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Accringtontown in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England2 km
- Oswaldtwistlevillage within the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England2.8 km
- Great Harwoodtown in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England1.9 km
- Rishtontown in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England2.4 km
- Althamvillage in Lancashire, England3.1 km
- Churchvillage in Lancashire, United Kingdom1.4 km