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Osbaldeston

Osbaldeston is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, about 3+1⁄4 miles (5.2 km) north-west of Blackburn and 7 miles (11.3 km) east of Preston.

Osbaldeston
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The place

Osbaldeston is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, about 3+1⁄4 miles (5.2 km) north-west of Blackburn and 7 miles (11.3 km) east of Preston. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 185.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Osbaldeston

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
    St Silas' Church

    St Silas' Church is in Preston New Road, Blackburn, 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.

    3.9 km · church in Blackburn · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Samlesbury Hall

    Samlesbury Hall is a historic house in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England, six miles east of Preston. It was built in 1325 by Gilbert de Southworth (b.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed house in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St 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.

    1.5 km · grade II listed church in Balderstone, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Mellor

    St Mary's Church is in Church Lane, Mellor, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    1.1 km · grade II listed church in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    2 Church Street

    2 Church Street is a building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England. The property dates to at least the 19th century.

    3.3 km · building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Leamington Road

    Leamington Road was a football ground in Blackburn in England. It was the home ground of Blackburn Rovers between 1881 and 1890.

    3.9 km · football ground · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Wilfrid's Church, Ribchester

    St Wilfrid's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Ribchester in Lancashire, England, which is situated close to the site of a Roman fort. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Ribchester, Ribble Valley, 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 Osbaldeston

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 51 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km
Stations
Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station, 3.9 km · Samlesbury Aerodrome, 2.3 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Osbaldeston
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Osbaldeston
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Osbaldeston
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Osbaldeston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Lancashire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    260 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    322 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    324 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    354 km

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

Around it

Next door to Osbaldeston

Osbaldeston is 11 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ribchestervillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK3.5 km
  • Balderstonevillage and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England1.5 km
  • Wilpshirevillage in Lancashire, England3.9 km
  • Clayton-le-Dalevillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Mellorvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK600 m
  • Salesburyvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK3.6 km