Rawtenstall

Worth seeing in and around Rawtenstall

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.

1. 01
   Ramsbottom

   Ramsbottom is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 17,872.

   5.9 km · market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Hail Storm Hill

   Hail Storm Hill, also known as Cowpe Moss, is the highest point of the Rossendale Valley, England, an area of moorland and hill country situated between the West Pennine Moors and the South Pennines. It is wholly within Lancashire, although the administrative county boundary with the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale passes just a kilometre to the south-east of the summit.

   4.2 km · hill in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Musbury Tor

   Musbury Tor or Tor Hill is a flat-topped hill in south-east Lancashire, England. It overlooks the village of Helmshore and separates Alden Valley to its south and Musbury Valley to its north.

   4.1 km · hill in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Rawtenstall railway station

   Rawtenstall railway station serves the town of Rawtenstall, in Lancashire, England; it is the northern terminus of the heritage East Lancashire Railway. It was formerly on the national railway network on the line between Bacup, Bury and Manchester.

   100 m · Northern teminus of the East Lancashire heritage railway in England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St John the Evangelist's Church, Crawshawbooth

   St John the Evangelist's Church is in the village of Crawshawbooth, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church formerly in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.

   2.6 km · church in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Calf Hey Reservoir

   Calf Hey Reservoir is a reservoir in Haslingden Grane, close to the town of Haslingden, in the Borough of Rossendale, England. It was the first of three reservoirs in the valley, the others being Ogden Reservoir and Holden Wood Reservoir.

   5.6 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Stubbylee Hall

   Stubbylee Hall, formerly known as Bacup Town Hall, is a former municipal building in Stubbylee Lane in Bacup, a town in Lancashire in England. The building, which served as the offices and meeting place of Bacup Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

   5.8 km · house in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Nicholas' Church

   St Nicholas Church is in the village of Newchurch within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Manchester, founded in the early 16th century.

   2.5 km · church in Newchurch, Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Pilgrims Cross, Holcombe Moor

   Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor, also called Whowell's Cross and Chatterton's Cross, is located on Holcombe Moor near Ramsbottom and Holcombe, Greater Manchester, England. It marks the site of a 12th-century stone wayside cross, originally placed for the use of travellers, for prayer and as a guide post.

   5.7 km · Monument marking the site of the ancient Pilgrims Cross on Holcombe Moor · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Church of Saint Paul

    St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Ramsbottom, Bury, England. The Church is also known more completely as The Church of the Parish of Ramsbottom, St John and St Paul.

    5.9 km · church building in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

The most interesting features are probably the landscapes around the town of Haslingden, which are stunning - with a wonderful view from 'the Halo', a short walk above the town, which looks down the Irwell Valley to Manchester and beyond to the Cheshire hills. The Halo is sculpture set in a landscaped park, known as a Panopticon.

1. 01
   Helmshore Mills Textile Museum

   It tells the story of the Lancashire textile industry.

From Wikivoyage: Rawtenstall, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Visit the Textile Museum (see above), which has a cafe and gift shop and frequent demonstration days showing working textile machinery. Lee Quarry Mountain Bike Trail, Bacup. Over 8 km of technical mountain bike trails have been completed in Lee Quarry Watch out for Juliet Bravo locations. The series was largely filmed in Bacup. Lee Quarry is perfect for mountain biking.

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Where to eat

The area has several restaurants, and a number of take-away food outlets. Cissy Green's Pie Shop, Higher Deardengate, Haslingden. It sells pies with a high reputation, especially the cheese and onion pie. Mario's. Bacup's main restaurant The White Horse Helmshore Rd., Helmshore, Rossendale BB4 4LU, +44 1706 213873.

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Getting to Rawtenstall

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 39 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 45 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 55 km

Stations

Ewood Bridge and Edenfield railway station, 2.1 km · Helmshore railway station, 3.1 km · Ramsbottom railway station, 5.9 km · Bacup railway station, 5.9 km · Stacksteads railway station, 4.3 km

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  50 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
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  56 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rawtenstall

  112 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rawtenstall

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

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