Scorton
Scorton is a small village near the River Wyre, in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England.
Scorton is a small village near the River Wyre, in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. It is located north of Garstang. The name means "farmstead near a ditch or ravine."
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Worth seeing in and around Scorton
6 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.
- 01Greenhalgh Castle
Greenhalgh Castle is a castle, now ruined, near the town of Garstang in Lancashire, England. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, had the castle built in 1490 to provide defence for his estates around Garstang.
3.7 km · castle in England · Wikipedia - 02Market House
Garstang Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Garstang, Lancashire, England. The structure, which currently accommodates two shops and a Royal British Legion Club, is a Grade II listed building.
3.7 km · house in Garstang, Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03All Saints Church, Barnacre
All Saints Church is in Delph Lane, Barnacre-with-Bonds, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Garstang, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
3 km · grade II listed church in Barnacre-with-Bonds, Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Luke's Church, Winmarleigh
St Luke's Church is in the village of Winmarleigh, Lancashire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the deanery of Lancaster and Morecambe.
3.2 km · grade II listed church in Winmarleigh, Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Peter's Church, Scorton
St Peter's Church is in the village of Scorton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Garstang, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.
200 m · grade II listed church in Nether Wyresdale, Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Thomas' Church, Garstang
St Thomas' Church is a Church of England church in Garstang, a market town in Lancashire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Lancaster.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Garstang, Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Scorton
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 67 km · Manchester (MAN), 72 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 72 km
- Liverpool → Scorton142 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Scorton110 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–19
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Scorton67 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Scorton
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 Scorton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBirkenhead and Liverpool have ferries to/from the Isle of Man (Isle of Man Steam Packet), Dublin (P&O Ferries) and Belfast (Stena Line).
- Get inFerries from the Isle of Man and Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland also dock at Heysham near Lancaster.
- Go nextIsle of Man: ferries to Douglas from Heysham and Liverpool.
- Go nextBelfast in Northern Ireland or Dublin in the Republic of Ireland by ferry from Birkenhead and Bootle (Liverpool) respectively.
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Next door to Scorton
Scorton is 19 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Garstangtown in Wyre, Lancashire, England3.4 km
- Cabusvillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.6 km
- Fortonvillage in Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK2.8 km
- Nether Wyresdalecivil parish in Lancashire, UK2.9 km
- Barnacre-with-Bondscivil parish in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England3.6 km
- Hollins Lanevillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.3 km