Longridge
Longridge is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England.
Longridge is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is situated 8 miles (13 km) north-east of the city of Preston, at the western end of Longridge Fell, a long ridge above the River Ribble. The nearest villages are Grimsargh, 2 miles (3 km) to the southeast, and Ribchester 4 miles (6 km) to the southeast. The parish of Longridge had a population of 7,546 recorded in the 2001 census, increasing to 7,724 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Longridge
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.
- 01Chingle Hall
Chingle Hall is a grade II listed manor house in the township of Whittingham near Preston, England.
5.3 km · building in Whittingham, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Leonard's Church, Balderstone
St Leonard's Church is in the village of Balderstone, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
5.6 km · grade II listed church in Balderstone, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Lawrence's Church, Longridge
St Lawrence's Church, located on Chapel Hill in Longridge, Lancashire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn. Built as a chapel of ease of St Wilfrid, Ribchester in the early 16th century, it was made a parish church in 1868, a role it now shares, jointly, with the nearby St Paul's Church.
700 m · Anglican church in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 04Hesketh End
Hesketh End is an historic building in the English village of Chipping, Lancashire. Built in 1591, with later additions made in the early 17th century, it is now a Grade I listed building.
3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Chipping, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Paul's Church, Longridge
St Paul's Church stands off Berry Lane, Longridge, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn.
200 m · church building in Longridge, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Mary's Church, Goosnargh
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in Goosnargh, a village north of Preston in Lancashire, England. The church dates from the Middle Ages; it was enlarged in the 16th century and restored twice in the 19th century.
4.9 km · church in Goosnargh, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 072 Church Street
2 Church Street is a building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England. The property dates to at least the 19th century.
4.8 km · building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 08Alston Hall
Alston Hall is a 19th-century Victorian gothic style country mansion located in Longridge in Lancashire, England. It is not to be confused with the 15th-century Alston Old Hall nearby.
3.4 km · Lancashire country mansion · Wikipedia - 09St Michael's Church, Grimsargh
St Michael's Church is in the village of Grimsargh, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Grimsargh, the archdeaconry of Preston, and the diocese of Blackburn.
4.4 km · grade II listed church in Grimsargh, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St Saviour's Church, Stydd
St Saviour's Church is an Anglican chapel in Stydd, a hamlet near Ribchester in Lancashire, England. It has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.
4.8 km · Grade I listed church in Dutton, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Longridge
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 58 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 58 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 62 km
- Stations
- Longridge railway station, 500 m · Grimsargh railway station, 3.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Longridge46 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
- Liverpool → Longridge53 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Longridge69 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £11–14
- 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 Longridge
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 Longridge. 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 Longridge
Longridge is 10 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ribchestervillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK4.7 km
- Grimsarghvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.7 km
- Balderstonevillage and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England5.7 km
- Goosnarghvillage in Lancashire, England, UK5.1 km
- Whittinghamcivil parish in Lancashire, UK4.3 km
- Haightoncivil parish in Lancashire, UK4.7 km