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Woodplumpton

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Woodplumpton

4 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
    St Lawrence's Church

    Grade II listed church in Barton, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John the Baptist's Church, Broughton

    Church in Preston, UK

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church Cottage

    Museum in Broughton, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Anne's Church, Woodplumpton

    Church in Preston, UK

    400 m · 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 Woodplumpton

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 60 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 72 km
  • Liverpool → Woodplumpton
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Woodplumpton
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Woodplumpton
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woodplumpton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Lancashire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    285 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    310 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    320 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    361 km

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

Around it

Next door to Woodplumpton

Woodplumpton is 6 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bartonvillage and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England3 km
  • Broughtonvillage and civil parish in Preston, Lancashire, UK2.3 km
  • Catforthvillage in Woodplumpton, Lancashire, England2.5 km
  • Eaveshamlet in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom2.6 km
  • Preston Rural Districtrural district in Lancashire, England1.5 km
  • Cadleysuburb in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK3.9 km