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Rimington

Rimington is a rural village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England.

Rimington
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The place

Rimington is a rural village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish was 382 at the 2001 Census, however at the 2011 Census Middop was included with Rimington giving a total of 480. It is east of Clitheroe and south of the A59 road. The village consists of the hamlets of Howgill, Martin Top, Newby, and Stopper Lane, and is in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rimington

3 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
    Sawley Abbey

    Sawley Abbey was an abbey of Cistercian monks in the village of Sawley, Lancashire, in England. Created as a daughter-house of Newminster Abbey, it existed from 1149 until its dissolution in 1536, during the reign of King Henry VIII. The abbey is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    3 km · Cistercian monastery in Sawley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Leonard's Church, Downham

    St Leonard's Church is in the village of Downham, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn.

    2.7 km · Grade II* listed church in Downham, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Downham Hall

    Downham Hall is an English country house in Downham, Lancashire, England.

    2.8 km · Grade II* listed country house in Downham, 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 Rimington

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 42 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 73 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rimington
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rimington
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Rimington
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £8–11
  • 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 Rimington

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 Rimington. 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

    260 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    322 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    343 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    364 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rimington

Rimington is 31 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gisburnvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Sawleyvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK3.1 km
  • Twistonvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2 km
  • Middophamlet and civil parish in Lancashire, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Downhamvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England2.7 km