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Twiston

Twiston is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley District, in the English county of Lancashire.

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The place

Twiston is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley District, in the English county of Lancashire. It is near the town of Clitheroe and the village of Downham. The parish is part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). It adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Downham and Rimington, and the Pendle parish of Barley-with-Wheatley Booth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Twiston

3 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
    Pendle Hill

    Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham. Its summit is 557 metres above mean sea level.

    2.6 km · hill in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Leonard's Church, Downham

    St Leonard's Church is in the village of Downham, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn.

    3 km · Grade II* listed church in Downham, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Downham Hall

    Downham Hall is an English country house in Downham, Lancashire, England.

    3.1 km · Grade II* listed country house in Downham, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Twiston

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 41 km · Manchester (MAN), 60 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 72 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Twiston
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Twiston
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £5–6
  • Liverpool → Twiston
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Twiston

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 Twiston. 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

    262 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    324 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    342 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    362 km

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

Around it

Next door to Twiston

Twiston is 31 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rimingtonvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK2 km
  • Middophamlet and civil parish in Lancashire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Downhamvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England2.8 km
  • Barley-with-Wheatley Boothcivil parish in Lancashire, UK3.3 km
  • Barleyvillage in Lancashire, UK3.5 km