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Paythorne

Paythorne is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England.

The place

Paythorne is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It is situated alongside the River Ribble, north-east of Clitheroe, and on the boundary with North Yorkshire. Other parishes adjacent to Paythorne are Halton West, Nappa, Newsholme, Horton, Gisburn, Sawley, Bolton-by-Bowland and Gisburn Forest. The nearest town is Barnoldswick, situated 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south-east of the village. Paythorne is on the edge of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, although only a small area in the west of the parish is within the area's boundary. The Ribble Way long-distance walk passes through the village.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Paythorne

One place 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
    Gisburne Park

    Gisburne Park is an 18th-century country house and associated park in Gisburn, Lancashire, England, in the Ribble Valley some 6 miles north-east of Clitheroe. The house is a Grade I listed building, and is now privately owned by Amber and Guy Hindley.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed English country house in Gisburn, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Paythorne

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 41 km · Manchester (MAN), 68 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 80 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Paythorne
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Paythorne
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Paythorne
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Paythorne

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 Paythorne. 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

    292 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    319 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    350 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    370 km

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Around it

Next door to Paythorne

Paythorne is 37 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gisburnvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Newsholmevillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Halton Westvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Hortonvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK3.1 km
  • Swindenvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK4 km
  • Nappavillage near Hellifield, North Yorkshire, England, UK3 km