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

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.
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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.
- 01Gawthorpe 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 - 02Shuttleworth 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 - 03Town 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 - 04Great 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 - 05Martholme 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 - 06Martholme
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 - 07Read 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 - 08St 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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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, Lancashire52 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–11
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Simonstone, Lancashire37 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £4–5
- Liverpool → Simonstone, Lancashire61 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Simonstone, Lancashire
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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