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Stacksteads

Stacksteads is a village between the towns of Bacup and Waterfoot within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England.

The place

Stacksteads is a village between the towns of Bacup and Waterfoot within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England. The population of this Rossendale ward at the 2011 census was 3,789. Stacksteads includes a mountain bike trail called Lee Quarry which had originally been a working quarry.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stacksteads

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
    Hail Storm Hill

    Hail Storm Hill, also known as Cowpe Moss, is the highest point of the Rossendale Valley, England, an area of moorland and hill country situated between the West Pennine Moors and the South Pennines. It is wholly within Lancashire, although the administrative county boundary with the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale passes just a kilometre to the south-east of the summit.

    3.2 km · hill in Lancashire, England, UK · 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.

    2.4 km · church in Bacup, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John's Church, Rawtenstall

    St John's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Newchurch Road, Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.6 km · church in Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Nicholas' Church

    St Nicholas Church is in the village of Newchurch within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Manchester, founded in the early 16th century.

    2.2 km · church in Newchurch, Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cowm Reservoir

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

    3.7 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    1.1 km · house in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Stacksteads

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 42 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 58 km
Stations
Stacksteads railway station, 500 m · Bacup railway station, 1.4 km · Clough Fold railway station, 3.5 km · Shawforth railway station, 3.7 km · Waterfoot railway station, 2.1 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Stacksteads
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Stacksteads
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stacksteads
    109 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stacksteads

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    281 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    316 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    325 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    340 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    343 km

If you know how people move in Stacksteads – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Stacksteads

Stacksteads is 24 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bacuptown in Lancashire, England1.9 km
  • Rossendaledistrict with borough status in Lancashire, England2.2 km
  • Newchurchvillage in Rossendale, Lancashire, UK2.3 km
  • Shawforthvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Weirvillage in Lancashire, UK3.8 km
  • Cloughfoldhamlet in Lancashire, England, UK3.4 km