Salesbury
Salesbury is a village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, located centrally in the county of Lancashire, England.
Salesbury is a village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, located centrally in the county of Lancashire, England. The B6245 road runs straight through the village providing transport links to towns such as Blackburn, Preston and Burnley. Salesbury lies less than 5 miles north of Blackburn and approximately 2 miles south of the River Ribble.
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Worth seeing in and around Salesbury
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.
- 01St 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.
3.8 km · grade II listed church in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Old St Leonard's Church, Langho
Old St Leonard's Church is a redundant Anglican church 1 mile northwest of the village of Langho, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 032 Church Street
2 Church Street is a building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England. The property dates to at least the 19th century.
3.2 km · building in Ribchester, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 04St 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.
2.6 km · 1933 church by F. X. Velarde in Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05St Saviour's Church, Stydd
St Saviour's Church is an Anglican chapel in Stydd, a hamlet near Ribchester in Lancashire, England. It has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.
3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Dutton, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St 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.
3.3 km · Grade I listed church in Ribchester, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07New St Leonard's Church, Langho
New St Leonard's Church is in Whalley New Road, between the villages of Langho and Billington in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.
3.6 km · church in Langho, Lancashire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Salesbury
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 52 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 55 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 57 km
- Stations
- Ramsgreave and Wilpshire railway station, 2 km · Langho railway station, 2.8 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Salesbury40 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Salesbury62 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
- Liverpool → Salesbury54 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Salesbury
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 Salesbury. 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 Salesbury
Salesbury is 15 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ribchestervillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK3.4 km
- Wilpshirevillage in Lancashire, England2.1 km
- Osbaldestonvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK3.5 km
- Mellorvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK3.4 km
- Dinckleyvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.6 km
- Ramsgreavesettlement and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK2.6 km