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Little Hoole

Little Hoole is a civil parish in Lancashire, England, It contains the village of Walmer Bridge, and the remaining part is predominantly a farming community.

The place

Little Hoole is a civil parish in Lancashire, England, It contains the village of Walmer Bridge, and the remaining part is predominantly a farming community. Other nearby villages include Much Hoole and Longton. The parish had a population of 1,815 people in 2001, increasing to 2,070 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Little Hoole

7 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
    Carr House

    Carr House is a 17th-century house within the Bank Hall Estate, half-way between the villages of Tarleton and Much Hoole at the extreme north-west of the village of Bretherton, Lancashire, England. The building faces south to the Bretherton road, from which it stands back some distance, and has a foreyard inclosed on the west side by farm buildings.

    2.3 km · country house in Bretherton, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holy Trinity Church, Tarleton

    Holy Trinity Church, Tarleton is an Anglican church which stands in the village of Tarleton, Lancashire, England. The church was built in 1886 to replace the old St Mary's Church on the edge of the village, which was no longer big enough for the local population to attend.

    3.8 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John the Baptist's Church, Bretherton

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

    3 km · grade II listed church in Bretherton, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, Becconsall

    All Saints Church is in Station Road, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    2.8 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bank Hall

    Bank Hall is a Jacobean mansion in Bretherton, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is at the centre of its own private estate, surrounded by parkland.

    3.5 km · listed mansion in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Becconsall Old Church

    Becconsall Old Church is a redundant church in the village of Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.2 km · church in Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary's Church, Tarleton

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church on the A59 road as it passes to the south of the village of Tarleton, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.7 km · church in Tarleton, West Lancashire, England,UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Little Hoole

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 41 km · Manchester (MAN), 52 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 77 km
  • Liverpool → Little Hoole
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £4–5
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Little Hoole
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Little Hoole
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Little Hoole

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 Little Hoole. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    257 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    318 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    351 km

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

Around it

Next door to Little Hoole

Little Hoole is 9 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Longtonvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK2.1 km
  • Much Hoolevillage in Lancashire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Huttonvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England3.7 km
  • Brethertonvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Walmer Bridgevillage in Lancashire, England, UK1 km