Ramsgreave
Ramsgreave is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England.
Ramsgreave is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. The parish is located on the northern edge of Blackburn although it is just outside the Blackburn with Darwen unitary district, and although the south and east of the parish is suburban, the parish also includes a rural area including Ribble Valley's only greenbelt land. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 817. It is served by Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station. There are approximately 6 miles of footpaths and 2.5 miles of road within the parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Ramsgreave
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.
- 01Blackburn Cathedral
Blackburn Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin with Saint Paul, is a Church of England cathedral situated in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The site on which the cathedral stands has been home to a parish church for over a thousand years, and the first stone church was built there in Norman times, though the building was completely rebuilt in the 19th century.
3.4 km · church in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of Blackburn
The diocese of Blackburn is diocese of the Church of England in North West England. Its boundaries correspond to northern Lancashire.
3 km · Church of England diocese · Wikipedia - 03St 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.
2.6 km · church in Blackburn · Wikipedia - 04Town Hall
Blackburn Town Hall is a municipal building on King William Street in Blackburn, England. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3 km · town hall in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Mark's Church, Blackburn
St Mark's Church is in Buncer Lane, in the former parish of Witton, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant Anglican church in the deanery of Blackburn with Darwen, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
3.5 km · church in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
The Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery is the local museum service for the borough of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. It is a museum with collections of Christian icons, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and local history, as well as those of the former Lewis Textile Museum.
3 km · museum in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 07Holy Trinity Church, Blackburn
Holy Trinity Church is in Mount Pleasant, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It is a former Anglican parish church which is now redundant and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.2 km · church in Blackburn, UK · Wikipedia - 08St 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.
1.9 km · grade II listed church in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St 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.
1.6 km · 1933 church by F. X. Velarde in Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10St Anne's Church, Blackburn
St Anne's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It was founded in 1848, built in 1926 and designed by the architectural firm of Hill, Sandy & Norris of Manchester, who were also behind the construction of St John the Baptist Church in Rochdale.
3.3 km · catholic church in Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ramsgreave
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 50 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 56 km
- Stations
- Blackburn railway station, 3.5 km · Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station, 1.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ramsgreave37 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £4–6
- Liverpool → Ramsgreave52 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ramsgreave62 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ramsgreave
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 Ramsgreave. 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 Ramsgreave
Ramsgreave is 13 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Blackburntown in Lancashire, England, UK3.7 km
- Balderstonevillage and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England4 km
- Wilpshirevillage in Lancashire, England1.5 km
- Osbaldestonvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK2.8 km
- Clayton-le-Dalevillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.5 km
- Mellorvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK2 km