Langho
Langho is a small rural village 5 miles (8 km) north of Blackburn in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England.
Langho is a small rural village 5 miles (8 km) north of Blackburn in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It is part of the parish of Billington and Langho. The village is linked with Blackburn and Clitheroe by the A666 road and is served by Langho railway station on the Ribble Valley Line. The population at the 2011 census was 2,015.
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Worth seeing in and around Langho
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.
- 01Whalley Abbey
Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, England. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site.
3 km · abbey · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley
The Church of St Mary and All Saints is an Anglican church in the village of Whalley, Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.
3.3 km · Grade I listed church in Whalley, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Old St Leonard's Church, Langho
Old St Leonard's Church is a redundant Anglican church 1 mile northwest of the village of Langho, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.5 km · Grade I listed church in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Great Harwood Town Hall
Great Harwood Town Hall is a municipal building in Town Hall Square, Great Harwood, Lancashire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Great Harwood Urban District Council Council, is a grade II listed building.
3.5 km · town hall in Great Harwood, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Gabriel's Church, Blackburn
St Gabriel's is an active English Anglican church in Blackburn, Lancashire. Designed by F. X. Velarde, St Gabriel's is regarded as a milestone in the development of Modern English ecclesiastical architecture.
3.9 km · 1933 church by F. X. Velarde in Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Hacking Hall
Hacking Hall is a Grade I listed, early-17th-century house situated at the confluence of the rivers Calder and Ribble in Lancashire, England. It is thought that J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, may have taken inspiration from the ferry here for the Bucklebury Ferry over the Brandywine river in his book, as it was still operational when Tolkien visited nearby Stonyhurst College.
2.5 km · Grade I listed building in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07New St Leonard's Church, Langho
New St Leonard's Church is in Whalley New Road, between the villages of Langho and Billington in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
900 m · church in Langho, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08St Bartholomew's Church, Great Harwood
St Bartholomew's Church is in the town of Great Harwood in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.
3.3 km · church in Great Harwood, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St John's Church, Great Harwood
St John's Church was an Anglican parish church in St Hubert's Road, Great Harwood, Lancashire, England. Its benefice has been united with that of St Bartholomew, Great Harwood.
3.7 km · church in Great Harwood, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Langho
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 52 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 52 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 59 km
- Stations
- Whalley railway station, 3.2 km · Langho railway station, 100 m · Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station, 3.4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Langho38 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £4.5–6
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Langho59 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Langho56 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £6–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Langho
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 Langho. 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 Langho
Langho is 17 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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