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Simonstone, Lancashire

Simonstone is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England.

Simonstone, Lancashire
Simonstone, Lancashire · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Simonstone is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,154. It is about 4 miles (6 km) west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill and Clitheroe along the A671 road. The village adjoins the village of Read, Lancashire and neighbours Padiham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Simonstone, Lancashire

8 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
    Gawthorpe Hall

    Gawthorpe Hall is an Elizabethan country house on the banks of the River Calder, in Ightenhill, a civil parish in the Borough of Burnley, Lancashire, England. Its estate extends into Padiham, with the Stockbridge Drive entrance situated there.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shuttleworth Hall

    Shuttleworth Hall is a 17th-century manor house in the civil parish of Hapton in Lancashire, England. It is protected as a Grade I listed building.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed English country house in Hapton, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Town Hall

    Padiham Town Hall is a municipal building in Burnley Road, Padiham, Lancashire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Padiham Urban District Council, is a grade II listed building.

    2 km · town hall, now council offices, with theatre and ball-room in Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Great Barn circa 100 metres west of Gawthorpe Hall

    Great Barn is an historic building in the English civil parish of Ightenhill, Lancashire. Built around 1605 about 100 metres west of Gawthorpe Hall, it is now a Grade I listed building.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed building in Ightenhill, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Martholme Viaduct

    Martholme Viaduct is a railway bridge near Great Harwood in Lancashire, north-western England. It was built from 1870 and opened in 1877 after construction was beset by landslips.

    2.4 km · bridge in Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Martholme

    Martholme is a Grade I listed medieval manor house standing on the banks of the River Calder 1+1⁄4 miles from Great Harwood, Lancashire, England and 5 miles north-east of Blackburn.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed country house in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Read Hall and Park

    Read Hall and Park is a manor house with ornamental grounds of about 450 acres in Whalley Road, Read, a few miles west of Padiham, Lancashire, England. The current hall dates from the early 19th century and is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.8 km · historic site in Read, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St James' Church, Altham

    St James' Church is in the village of Altham, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Accrington, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.

    1.4 km · church in Altham, Hyndburn, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Simonstone, Lancashire

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 45 km · Manchester (MAN), 51 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 62 km
Stations
Huncoat railway station, 3.8 km · Hapton railway station, 3.2 km · Padiham railway station, 1.9 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Simonstone, Lancashire
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Simonstone, Lancashire
    37 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £4–5
  • Liverpool → Simonstone, Lancashire
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Simonstone, Lancashire

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

The nearest places where the work is done
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    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    266 km
  2. 02
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    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

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  4. 04
    LundyGB

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  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    354 km

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Around it

Next door to Simonstone, Lancashire

Simonstone, Lancashire is 24 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Padihamtown in Lancashire, England2.3 km
  • Sabdenvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire3 km
  • Readvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK800 m
  • Althamvillage in Lancashire, England2.9 km
  • Haptonvillage and civil parish in Burnley, Lancashire, England3.4 km
  • Highamvillage in Lancashire, United Kingdom3.7 km