Wiswell
Wiswell is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, close to Whalley and Clitheroe at the foot of Wiswell Moor.
Wiswell is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, close to Whalley and Clitheroe at the foot of Wiswell Moor.
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Worth seeing in and around Wiswell
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.
- 01Whalley Abbey
Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, England. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site.
2.1 km · abbey · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley
The Church of St Mary and All Saints is an Anglican church in the village of Whalley, Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.
1.8 km · Grade I listed church in Whalley, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Vicarage House
Vicarage House stands on Vicarage Fold at the southern edge of the village of Wiswell, Lancashire, England. It dates from the early 17th century and has been described as "the most interesting building" in the village.
100 m · Grade I listed building in Wiswell, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Martholme 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.
3.7 km · bridge in Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05All Hallows Church, Great Mitton
All Hallows Church, Great Mitton, is in the village of Great Mitton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the Diocese of Blackburn.
3.3 km · church in the village of Great Mitton, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Hacking Hall
Hacking Hall is a Grade I listed, early-17th-century house situated at the confluence of the rivers Calder and Ribble in Lancashire, England. It is thought that J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, may have taken inspiration from the ferry here for the Bucklebury Ferry over the Brandywine river in his book, as it was still operational when Tolkien visited nearby Stonyhurst College.
3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Billington and Langho, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Martholme
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.
3.7 km · Grade I listed country house in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Read 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.
2.9 km · historic site in Read, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wiswell
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 48 km · Manchester (MAN), 54 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 63 km
- Stations
- Whalley railway station, 1.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Wiswell55 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wiswell40 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £4.5–6
- Liverpool → Wiswell61 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Wiswell
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 Wiswell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries ply to Liverpool from: Dublin twice a day (P & O, 8 hours), though there are faster sailings from Dublin to Holyhead in North Wales.
- Get inBelfast twice a day (Stena Line, 8 hours) Douglas Isle of Man three per day (Isle of Man Steam Packet, 2 hour 45 min); Douglas also has ferries to Heysham near Morecambe.
- Get aroundLancashire is increasingly a cycle friendly place for on- and off-road cyclists.
- Go nextOr hop on a ferry to Ireland or the Isle of Man.
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If you know how people move in Wiswell – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Wiswell
Wiswell is 22 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Readvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK3.7 km
- Whalleyvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK1.4 km
- Sabdenvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire3.4 km
- Pendletonvillage in Lancashire, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Barrowvillage and civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK1.5 km
- Great Mittonvillage in Lancashire, England, UK3.4 km