Shawforth

Worth seeing in and around Shawforth

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.

1. 01
   Astronomy Centre

   The Astronomy Centre, also known as the Amateur Astronomy Centre, is an astronomical observatory located in northern England which is run by experienced amateur astronomers and is open to the public at certain times.

   3.2 km · astronomical observatory in northern England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Christ Church, Bacup

   The former Christ Church building - now known as Rossendale Digital Bacup Campus - is in Beech Street, off Todmorden Road, Bacup, Lancashire, England. It is a former Anglican parish church in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester and has been acquired by a local business to convert into Rossendale's first dedicated digital centre.

   3.2 km · church in Bacup, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   2.7 km · house in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Brown Wardle Hill

   Brown Wardle is a hill between the village of Wardle, Greater Manchester and the town of Whitworth, Lancashire, England. The summit is on the border of Greater Manchester and Lancashire and stands 1,314 feet above sea level, making it one of the highest points in Rochdale and Greater Manchester.

   2.2 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Watergrove Reservoir

   Watergrove Reservoir is a reservoir close to Wardle in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, within Greater Manchester, England. Rochdale Corporation chose Watergrove as a suitable site to build a large reservoir largely to a prolonged drought in the 1930s, resulting in water regularly being bought from Oldham.

   3.4 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Cowm Reservoir

   Cowm Reservoir in Whitworth was built following the 1866 Rochdale Waterworks Act. The reservoir is owned by United Utilities.

   2 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shawforth

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 39 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 60 km

Stations

Bacup railway station, 2.8 km · Facit railway station, 1.7 km · Shawforth railway station, 200 m · Whitworth railway station, 3.1 km · Britannia railway station, 1.1 km

• Liverpool → Shawforth

  61 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–9
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Shawforth

  105 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £14–18
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Shawforth

  135 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £16–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shawforth

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

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