Twicket
Twicket was a village cricket match, streamed online on 25 April 2011, with the intention of highlighting the need for fast rural broadband.
Twicket was a village cricket match, streamed online on 25 April 2011, with the intention of highlighting the need for fast rural broadband. The organisers claimed the event to be a world first. The event received widespread media coverage from several news outlets including BBC Radio London, talkSPORT, and Radio New Zealand.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Twicket
10 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.
- 01Hornby Castle
Hornby Castle is a country house, developed from a medieval castle, standing to the east of the village of Hornby in the Lune Valley, Lancashire, England. It occupies a position overlooking the village in a curve of the River Wenning.
1.9 km · country house in the Lune Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Holy Trinity Church, Wray
Holy Trinity Church is in the village of Wray, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
100 m · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church of St James the Less, Tatham
The Church of St James the Less is in the village of Tatham, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.
1.8 km · church in Tatham, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Loyn Bridge
Loyn Bridge crosses the River Lune, carrying a minor road between the villages of Hornby and Gressingham in Lancashire, England. The present bridge replaces an older bridge, which is thought to have been constructed with timber decking between stone piers.
3 km · bridge in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Chad's Church, Claughton
St Chad's Church is in the village of Claughton, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church, which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Claughton, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St John the Evangelist's Church, Gressingham
St John the Evangelist's Church is in the village of Gressingham, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Gressingham, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Margaret's Church
St Margaret's Church is in Main Street, Hornby, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
2.1 km · church in Hornby, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Wilfrid's Church
St Wilfrid's Church is in Main Street, Melling, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican church in the united benefice of East Lonsdale, the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.
3.6 km · church in Melling, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09The Ridding
The Ridding is a Victorian country house located in the village of Bentham, North Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
4 km · Victorian country house in Bentham, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Wennington Hall
Wennington Hall is a former country house in Wennington, a village in the City of Lancaster district in Lancashire, England. The house is a Grade II listed building and from 1940 until 2022 was used as a school, at first by the Quaker boarding school Wennington School before its move to Yorkshire, then by Lancashire County Council.
3.1 km · country house in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Twicket
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 67 km · Manchester (MAN), 87 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 87 km
- Stations
- Wennington railway station, 2.7 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → TwicketTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → TwicketTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Liverpool → TwicketTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Twicket
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 Twicket. 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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If you know how people move in Twicket – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Twicket
Twicket is 38 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wenningtona village located in Lancaster, United Kingdom2.7 km
- Tathamvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK1.8 km
- Gressinghamvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.4 km
- Melling-with-Wraytoncivil parish in England3.7 km
- Hornby-with-Farletoncivil parish in England2.1 km